Lead Data AI Platform Engineer - Knowledge Graph

Disney Cruise Line - The Walt Disney Company; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology seeks a Lead Software Engineer for the Data Foundation Platform team. The role builds cloud services used by data engineers and scientists across Disney’s streaming and web businesses, including Disney+.

We seek an engineer who can contribute to AI tooling and knowledge graphs for product intelligence. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of software engineering experience, strong Python and ML libraries, and hands-on AWS Bedrock, Snowflake Cortex,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience on large projects.
• Strong problem-solving and Python ML knowledge.
• Experience with AWS Bedrock, Snowflake Cortex, and Databricks Genie.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and expand AI intelligence layer with Snowflake Cortex and AWS Bedrock.
• Design and code shared libraries for data pipelines and platforms.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineers on Data & AI strategy.
• Document standards for configurations, naming conventions, and partitioning strategies.
• Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of AI projects.
• Participate in agile/scrum ceremonies to improve team processes.
• Engage with customers to prioritize platform improvements.
• Maintain documentation for data quality and governance requirements.

Skills

Python

ML libraries

AWS Bedrock

Snowflake Cortex

Databricks Genie

Airflow

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

Algorithms

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology seeks a Lead Software Engineer for the Data Foundation Platform team. The role builds cloud services used by data engineers and scientists across Disney’s streaming and web businesses, including Disney+.

We seek an engineer who can contribute to AI tooling and knowledge graphs for product intelligence. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of software engineering experience, strong Python and ML libraries, and hands-on AWS Bedrock, Snowflake Cortex,