Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here: Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems. Job Summary The Application Player Engineering team mission is to design video streaming playback solutions in collaboration with UI, encoding, packaging, and delivery teams to optimize the Disney streaming technology stack for the best streaming experience possible on all platforms. Our team is seeking someone who can fill the role of Principal Software Engineer to create global feature rich standardized streaming media playback solutions on cross-functional devices including Apple, Android, Roku, and Web Technologies. Our intention is to design and develop a layered architecture for media playback which can span all the Disney direct-to-consumer brands like Disney+, ESPN, and Hulu. Your focus will be focused on creating solutions to scale for players, collaborating with media playback teams on other platforms to ensure a consistent software architecture which delivers a best-in-class streaming experience for your viewers while providing a foundation for media playback innovation at Disney. This is a hands-on Engineering position for Application Player Engineering across a variety of Streaming Technologies. You will apply technical expertise to create solutions that scale, manage project priorities, deliverables and design and enhance software solutions surrounding media technology to scale. You will architect reusable solutions that will be shared across Disney experiences. You may lead others to solve complex problems and provide oversight and direction to other software engineers. You are a person who enjoys working with other teams and technologies to understand their constraints. You enjoy the challenges presented by difficult problems and take pride in finding solutions which successfully thread the needle between design constraints, technical constraints, and the end experience of your users. You foster trust, approach problems with empathy and respect, and embrace creativity.