Lead Software Engineer

Disney Experiences invites you to join the DX T team as a Lead Software Engineer, onsite in Bay Lake, Florida. This senior role offers a compensation range of USD 148,300 to 180,000 per year, along with medical benefits, financial benefits, and eligibility for bonus and long-term incentive units. As a hands-on leader, you will own multi-system delivery, set technical direction, and build real-time, event-driven platforms at scale across edge, cloud, and streaming components.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate real-time event driven systems that ingest data from edge devices and process it at scale
• Implement backend services and streaming pipelines with Java and Apache Flink to convert data into reliable events, including guest media handling and identity reconciliation
• Architect and run production systems on AWS with emphasis on scalability, cost efficiency, observability, and fault tolerance
• Guide end-to-end delivery across multiple systems, balancing domain objectives, technical constraints, and priorities to ship meaningful features
• Drive technical decisions, shape system design, and own key components of the platform
• Create clear, versioned event schemas and APIs for downstream consumers and external integrations
• Operate as an autonomous technical liaison and team representative
• Mentor junior engineers and present to executive audiences
• Contribute to estimation and planning of complex scalable projects
• This role may require occasional travel, estimated at 10 to 15 percent

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including work on distributed, production systems
• At least 3 years of cross-team technical leadership with end-to-end ownership of multi-service initiatives and driving scalable architecture decisions
• Leads through technical influence rather than direct people management
• Expertise building real-time or streaming data pipelines, including event ingestion, aggregation, windowing, and emission
• Experience with AWS IoT Core, Kinesis, Kafka, and MQTT
• Expert-level proficiency in Java
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as ECS, EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, and time-series databases like Timestream or InfluxDB
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, schema evolution, and downstream consumer integration
• Proven ability to design and deliver observable, resilient, and scalable systems
• Commitment to staying current with emerging technologies to inform recommendations

Technologies

• Java
• Apache Flink
• AWS IoT Core
• Amazon Kinesis
• Apache Kafka
• MQTT
• Amazon ECS
• Amazon EKS
• AWS Lambda
• DynamoDB
• S3
• CloudWatch
• Timestream
• InfluxDB

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units