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Job ID 10148700 Location Bay Lake, Florida, United States Business Disney Experiences Date posted Aug. 10, 2026

This is not a remote role. You must be in the area or willing to relocate.

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 with technical partners, business partners, and front line operators
• Comfortable mentoring junior developers and representing technical tradeoffs to senior leadership
• This position may require occasional travel, estimated at 10–15%

• Must have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with experience in distributed, production systems
• Shows deep ownership of major components, but not necessarily orchestrating multiple teams’ delivery for quarters at a time.
• Must have expertise building real-time or streaming data pipelines (event ingestion, aggregation, windowing, and emission)
• Must have deep hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch)
• Must have Expert-level proficiency in Java

• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, schema evolution, and downstream consumer integration
• Proven ability to design systems that are observable, resilient, and scalable

• Operating high-visibility systems with strict performance and reliability expectations
• Experience with stream processing frameworks or high-throughput messaging systems
• Building systems that handle sensitive or privacy-relevant data, with strong security and access controls

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent years of relevant experience

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The hiring range for this position in Orlando is $135,200.00 - $165,000.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
• A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Disney Experiences brings the magic of Disney stories and franchises to life through theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, unique vacation experiences, products and more around the world. Disney shines in the travel industry with six resort destinations in the United States, Europe and Asia; a top-rated cruise line; a popular vacation ownership program; and an award-winning guided family adventure business. Plus, Disney's global consumer products operations include the world's leading licensing business; the world's largest children's publishing brands; one of the world's largest licensors of games across all platforms; and Disney store locations around the world and on the web.

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC , which is part