Job Details

Principal Software Engineer - Android

Job ID 10135020

Location San Francisco, California, United States / New York, New York, United States

Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Date posted Oct. 30, 2025

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: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, and many more. These products and brands serve millions of people globally.
• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for engineering Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms, including product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, and engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Job Summary: Disney's Android team seeks an experienced Principal Software Engineer to build apps enjoyed by millions around the world. You will build scalable, elegant solutions for Android applications on Disney+ and Star+ across phones, tablets, and TVs. Our collaborative group works with many cross‑functional teams. We value pristine communication skills and a bias for action. We maintain high code quality with unit tests, automated tests, modern libraries, and a Kotlin codebase. We strive to build the best Live and video‑on‑Demand (VOD) applications in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Architectural Vision & Technical Roadmap: Define and drive the long‑term architectural vision and technical roadmap for the Disney+ Android applications across phones, tablets, and TV devices.
• Cross‑functional partnership: Collaborate with product, UX/UI, and others to influence product strategy.
• Full‑stack application impact: Design and implement solutions across all feature areas of the application, from user onboarding and content discovery to core video playback.
• Platform expertise: Serve as a subject‑matter expert for the Android platform, guiding the team for new OS versions and navigating the diverse ecosystem of phone, tablet, Android TV, and Amazon Fire TV devices.
• Develop core components to be utilized across the Disney+ Android application.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant Android experience.
• Demonstrated ability to own and lead large, complex, and/or highly innovative development projects from start to finish.
• Deep and broad technical knowledge reaching subject‑matter expertise in several key areas of software engineering, including architectural patterns (MVI/MVVM or equivalent).
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas, anticipate objections, and persuade others at senior levels to adopt a different point of view.
• Ability to write phenomenal code and tests, own system architecture documentation, and review the code and solution designs of multiple teams, providing valuable feedback.
• Experience proactively mentoring and assisting in the growth of senior and lead software developers and their peers across teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience refactoring large and complex codebases.
• Familiarity with Android TV / Amazon Fire TV development.
• Experience with streaming video, codecs, and DRM.
• Knowledgeable about maintaining a large modularized codebase.
• Experience using performance evaluation tools such as Android Profiler.
• Experience with Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Dependency Injection, Gradle, Databases, Reactive paradigms, coroutines.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or better in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent job experience.

The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $206,400 - $276,700 and in New York City, NY is $197,400 - $264,700. 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, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

At Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, we're blending imagination and innovation to reimagine the ways people experience and engage with the world's most beloved stories and products. Our work is wide‑ranging and deeply sophisticated. We create amazing experiences, transform the future of media, and build products and platforms that enable the connection between people everywhere and the stories and sports they love.

About The Walt Disney Company

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.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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