Remote Data Engineer for Performance Marketing Pipelines

The Walt Disney Company; Burbank (CA); Remote; USD 107,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Long-term incentive units

Medical benefits

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Performance Marketing arm of its Enterprise Media and Marketing team. You will help expand data tooling, build production pipelines, and collaborate across marketers, data scientists, and engineers.

This role is embedded directly within the Disney media team, enabling fast iteration on AI-driven campaigns, scalable data platforms, and end-to-end data workflows to drive data-backed advertising decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years designing and delivering backend architectures in a production environment.
• Strong opinions on how to best use AI/LLMs in software development and ability to apply them.
• Experience with Spark and SQL; building data pipelines on scaled data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop suite of tools used by the Performance Marketing group.
• Lead data engineering, data modeling, and architectural standards within the team.
• Create and manage end-to-end data pipelines—from source systems to end users.
• Collaborate with media/marketing experts to iterate prototypes to production pipelines and apps.
• Implement quality controls, monitoring, and safeguards for ad campaigns and metrics.

Skills

Backend design

AI/LLMs in dev

Data pipelines

Cross-functional teamwork

Production-grade thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/SE or related field

Tools

Spark

SQL

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Terraform

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Performance Marketing arm of its Enterprise Media and Marketing team. You will help expand data tooling, build production pipelines, and collaborate across marketers, data scientists, and engineers.

This role is embedded directly within the Disney media team, enabling fast iteration on AI-driven campaigns, scalable data platforms, and end-to-end data workflows to drive data-backed advertising decisions.