Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T) is seeking a Senior Data Engineer focused on privacy solutions and data subject rights automation. You will work cross-functionally with analytics, data architecture, legal and security teams to build scalable solutions for privacy-related challenges. You’ll understand how data is used across Disney’s world-class streaming services and leverage the latest technologies available in AWS, Databricks, and beyond.

Overview

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology aims to reimagine how people experience stories and products. We develop streaming and digital products, power advertising and distribution, and deliver Disney’s entertainment and sports content to partners and millions of users worldwide.

Why you’ll love working here

• Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists design and build infrastructure powering Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution.

• Reach & Scale: Our products delight millions of consumers daily across Disney+, Hulu, ABC News, ESPN, ESPN+, and more.

• Innovation: We develop groundbreaking products and techniques influencing industry norms and how audiences experience sports, entertainment, and news.

Responsibilities

• Be a key player in a cross-functional team of engineers who build software for a large-scale data processing ecosystem, supporting real-time and batch data pipelines for analytics, data science, and operations.

• Maintain data engineering and architecture best practices and standards within the team and wider organization, fostering a culture of quality, innovation, and experimentation.

• Evangelize and evolve the platform, best practices, and data-driven decisions; identify new use cases and features and drive adoption.

• Build out robust observability, alerting, logging, and a system control plane for easy diagnosis across all data pipelines.

• Contribute to maintaining, updating, and expanding existing software deployments while upholding strict uptime SLAs.

• Maintain detailed documentation to support data quality and data governance requirements.

• Participate in agile/scrum ceremonies to collaborate and improve processes.

• Collaboration: Work with product managers, architects, and other engineers to drive the success of the Foundational Platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience in software engineering in the data space.

• Strong algorithmic problem-solving expertise; solid fundamental Scala and Python programming skills.

• Good understanding of AWS or other cloud resources (S3).

• Strong SQL skills with the ability to explore and analyze data deeply.

• Hands-on experience with distributed processing systems such as Apache Spark.

• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Airflow for data pipelines.

• Scripting language experience (Bash, PowerShell).

• Technologies such as OneTrust, Databricks, Jupyter, Snowflake, Redshift, Airflow, DynamoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Kinesis, REST APIs, Terraform, Go.

• SQL, Python, Scala, and other programming languages.

• Willingness to learn new skillsets; self-starting with strong analytical and communication skills.

Education

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

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science (preferred).

• Experience with at least one major MPP or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery).

• Experience developing APIs with GraphQL and familiarity with data modeling techniques and data warehousing practices.

• Familiarity with Scrum and Agile methodologies; knowledge of privacy regulations and data subject rights.

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The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $138,900 - $186,200 per year and in New York, NY is $145,400 - $195,000 per year. The base pay offered will consider internal equity and location, plus potential bonus and long-term incentive units, benefits, and other compensation dependent on level and experience.

About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

We blend imagination and innovation to reimagine how people experience and engage with stories and products. We 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 is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise, with operations in more than 40 countries. Disney Streaming Technology LLC is part of Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology. Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants regardless of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or other protected status.

Disability Accommodation For Employment Applications: The Walt Disney Company and its affiliates are Equal Employment Opportunity employers. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for or apply to a position, email with your request.

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