Senior AI Data Engineer: Real-Time Pipelines

Disney Cruise Line - The Walt Disney Company

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

Confidential

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology’s Ads Data team is transforming advertising with data and AI, delivering end-to-end solutions for planning, activation, measurement, and insights. We design and build scalable data foundations powering AI across Ad Tech, collaborating across ML, data engineering, and governance to enable real‑time data delivery for high‑impact campaigns.

This Senior Data Engineer role focuses on streaming pipelines, embedding pipelines, vector stores, and

Qualifications

5+ years of data engineering experience in large-scale distributed environments.
Experience leading technical teams or projects.
Strong programming in Python or Java and SQL.
Experience with streaming systems like Kafka, Flink, Spark, or Kinesis.
Familiarity with embedding pipelines and vector stores (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, pgvector).

Responsibilities

Build and maintain high‑performance streaming and batch data pipelines powering AI applications.
Extend embedding generation workflows, vector store integrations, and retrieval pipelines for semantic search and AI assistants.
Develop scalable storage and retrieval patterns with cost‑efficient architectures and robust production performance.
Integrate pipelines with shared AI platform services and ensure versioned, reliable data delivery.
Embed observability, data quality, and governance into data systems across the organization.