Lead Software Engineer - Data Streaming/Integration Platforms

Lead Software Engineer

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help build, enhance, and scale our cloud-based messaging and integration platforms. In this role, you will design, develop, and support event-streaming solutions at scale. You will also build and maintain custom microservices based applications that provide platform administration, operational tooling, and integrations with enterprise products and third-party systems.

Beyond hands-on development, you will serve as a key technical leader—setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and championing best practices in software development, cost-efficient architecture, and maintainable design.

This role offers the opportunity to shape core platform strategy, lead complex distributed systems engineering, and collaborate across the organization to deliver high-quality, reliable, and scalable products.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Build, enhance, and support highly scalable, reliable, and cost-optimized cloud-based event-streaming and integration platforms.
• Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines to deploy and manage cloud resources.
• Enhance and support Spring Boot/Java microservices based applications for administration and operation of messaging platform.
• Design, develop and support integration services connecting enterprise products and third-party systems.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and conduct code reviews.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Ensure performance, reliability, and observability across the platforms.
• Champion engineering excellence in areas such as IaC, microservices design, price-performance optimization, and observability.
• Continuously improve platform automation, monitoring, and self-service capabilities.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a strong focus on Java, Infrastructure as Code
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and supporting cloud solutions in AWS, including container orchestration using Amazon EKS
• Extensive "Infrastructure as Code" experience, with advanced proficiency in Terraform for provisioning and automating cloud resources
• Extensive hands-on experience in administrating, deploying, and optimizing messaging platform, especially Apache Kafka and AWS Kinesis
• Proficient in Spring Boot / Java development, with a strong focus on microservices architecture.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across teams.
• Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience #disneytech