Senior Data Engineer - Audience Manager Platform

Senior Data Engineer - Audience Manager Platform

Location: Glendale, California; Santa Monica, California; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington

Business: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Date posted: Sep. 05, 2025

Overview

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. 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.

Reasons you might love working here include:

• 1. Building the future of Disney’s media: Designing and building products and platforms that power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• 2. Reach, Scale & Impact: Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans’ connections with the company’s brands and stories.
• 3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex technical problems.

Job Summary

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

This role involves building and maintaining the Audience Manager Platform (AMP), a centralized Disney audience data platform that captures and processes all Disney consumers cross-channel behavior and delivers varying summarizations to multiple endpoints to support all business needs. At its core, it provides a comprehensive source of truth for customer data. It is built around customer profiles and is able to provide insights from across the business so stakeholders can quickly act on the data through activation pipelines. The role requires expert knowledge of building scalable, fault-tolerant data processing pipelines and backend to ensure the reliable delivery of audience data.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Build and maintain audience platform initiatives to improve and expand audience targeting capabilities.
• Partner with technical and non-technical colleagues to understand audience data and targeting requirements.
• Work with engineering teams to collect required data from internal and external systems.
• Support Agile methodologies such as Scrum by actively participating in regular ceremonies (stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint planning).
• Design table structures and define ETL pipelines to build performant and scalable solutions.
• Develop data quality checks.
• Participate in on-call support.
• Develop and maintain ETL routines using ETL and orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Perform ad hoc analysis and SQL and ETL tuning as necessary.
• Participate in code reviews and problem-solving.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of big data engineering experience modeling and developing large data pipelines
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems such as Spark, Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Presto, PySpark) to query and process data
• Strong Python and SQL skills processing big datasets
• Experience with at least one major MPP or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks)
• Familiarity with Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices
• API and backend development experience

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, or equivalent work experience.

Compensation

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The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is $138,900.00-$186,200.00 per year, in San Francisco, CA is $152,100.00 - $203,900 and in Seattle, WA is $145,400.00 to $195,000.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on 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

We blend imagination and innovation to reimagine how 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 connections between people and the stories and sports they love.

About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with segments including Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. Disney’s stories, characters, and experiences reach consumers and guests worldwide.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, part of Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by law. Disney champions a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Disability Accommodation For Employment Applications

The Walt Disney Company and its affiliated companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers. If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply, please email with your request. This email is for accessibility requests related to the online application system only.

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