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Lead Software Engineer - Rust/C++

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

$152,200 - $223,600
Sep 25, 2025
Seattle, WA, US
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Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is looking to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally, specifically focusing on enhancing the user experience for Disney+ and Hulu apps on native client platforms across a range of devices.

Requirements

  • Very strong Rust skills: candidates should have 2 – 4+ years of personal or professional Rust experience.
  • Experience working on user interface-level code with a strong knowledge of common patterns, architectures, and approaches to present a data-driven UX to viewers.
  • Familiarity with writing software for devices, including embedded systems.
  • Experience writing portable multi-platform code.
  • Cross-device dependency management.
  • Experience using build runners / compilation tools for multi-platform projects.

Responsibilities

  • Bring advanced native engineering skills to be a critical member of a team of engineers responsible for building our client application experiences in Rust.
  • Contribute to the development of new application features from onboarding to browse UI/UX experiences, analytics, video playback UI/UX and much more. If you see it on screen, you’ll likely have a chance to work on it in code.
  • Work collaboratively to help shape and guide architectural decisions, both for new areas of the app and to improve existing areas.
  • Help to mentor more junior engineers around architectural and technical skills.
  • Work with various teams and external device partners to vet new hardware from a client application perspective.
  • Collaborate closely with our Native Client Platform Core engineering team, services engineering teams, product owners, and designers to help understand and explain device limitations and requirements.

Other

  • This is an onsite position, four (4) days a week, and must sit in one of our technology offices above.
  • Candidates should have 7+ years of programming experience
  • Bachelor’s degree or better in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent job experience.