Sr Software Engineer

About the role

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Must have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with experience in distributed, production systems.
• Must have 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.

Qualifications

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

Skills

• 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.

Benefits

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, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Pay

The base pay for this position in Orlando is $135,200.00 - $165,000.00 per year.

Schedule

The schedule for this position in Orlando is not specified.