Performance Marketing Data Engineer – NYC, Data Pipelines & AI

The Walt Disney Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 114,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in New York City is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Performance Marketing arm of the Enterprise Media and Marketing team. This embedded role collaborates with marketers, data scientists, engineers, and analysts to build data-driven campaign tools and pipelines.

You will design end-to-end data pipelines, apply data modeling, and ensure accurate measurement for paid media campaigns using Spark, SQL, Python and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience designing and delivering backend architectures in a production environment.
• Strong opinions on how to best use AI/LLMs in the software development process.
• Experience with Spark and SQL; experience building simple and maintainable data pipelines on scaled data platforms.
• Ability to dive deep into any technical component.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into requirements.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of the suite of tools used by the Performance Marketing group
• Drive data engineering, data modeling, and architectural standards within the team; uphold standards around pipeline development, observability, and documentation
• Create and manage end-to-end data pipelines – from source system to end consumer teams, applications, and users
• Collaborate with the broader team of media/marketing experts to rapidly iterate from prototypes to high-quality, production pipelines and applications
• Implement quality controls, monitoring, and safeguards to ensure optimizations are applied to in-flight ad campaigns and key metrics are presented accurately

Skills

Backend architecture design

AI/LLMs integration

Data pipeline design

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical deep-diving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/SE

Tools

Spark

SQL

Python

Databricks/Snowflake

AWS

Terraform

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in New York City is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Performance Marketing arm of the Enterprise Media and Marketing team. This embedded role collaborates with marketers, data scientists, engineers, and analysts to build data-driven campaign tools and pipelines.

You will design end-to-end data pipelines, apply data modeling, and ensure accurate measurement for paid media campaigns using Spark, SQL, Python and cloud platforms.