Sr Software Engineer

This is not a remote role. You must be in the area or willing to relocate. About the Role & Team Disney Experiences (DXT) Technology & Digital creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani: A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club. We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including My Disney Experience and Hey Disney! The Sr. Software Engineer will have responsibilities within the Disney Experiences (DXT) team that manages technical delivery for products within the Connected Products team across all DX. This person will be a cross-disciplinary engineer and problem solver who delivers projects, sustains platforms, and contributes to innovative new products. The Sr. Software Engineer will be contributing to a core platform with real-world impact, operating at scale, and solving technically hard problems that span edge systems, cloud infrastructure, and real-time data processing. Success in this role requires shipping complex features, improving reliability/performance of owned areas, mentoring junior developers and strong operational excellence on owned components. • Design, build, and operate real-time, event-driven systems that ingest and process data from edge devices through technologies like Kinesis, Kafka, and MQTT. • Develop backend services and streaming pipelines using Java and Apache Flink to transform data into reliable, consumable events, managing Guest media and identity reconsiliation Architect and operate production systems on AWS, with a strong focus on scalability, cost efficiency, observability, and fault tolerance • Lead technical decisions, drive system design, and act as an owner for critical components of the platform • Build clean, versioned event schemas and APIs that integrate with downstream consumers and external systems • Independently acts as technical liaison and communicates effectively…