Data Engineer II - Large-Scale Pipelines & ML

The Walt Disney Company; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Data Engineer II to help scale our data landscape for streaming and personalization. You'll partner with ML engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to build reliable datasets and robust data pipelines that power recommendations and viewer experiences across Disney's global platforms.

This role emphasizes data quality, large-scale processing, and collaboration, with opportunities to work across product teams and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field), or equivalent work experience.
• 3 years of experience with large scale data workloads, building and curating datasets and data pipelines.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or comparable OO language.
• Experience with Databricks or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience with source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, design patterns).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and own high-quality foundational datasets for ML models and subscriber experiences.
• Source, analyze, and validate diverse data sources from partner teams.
• Identify and build new user and content data features for recommendation systems.
• Improve data quality through experimentation, testing, and monitoring.
• Build, optimize, and maintain large-scale data processing jobs and pipelines.
• Improve data quality with checks, anomaly detection, and alerting.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support critical production data pipelines.

Skills

Python

Java

Communication skills

Databricks

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

CS fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Kafka

Kinesis

DynamoDB

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Data Engineer II to help scale our data landscape for streaming and personalization. You'll partner with ML engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to build reliable datasets and robust data pipelines that power recommendations and viewer experiences across Disney's global platforms.

This role emphasizes data quality, large-scale processing, and collaboration, with opportunities to work across product teams and