Senior ML Engineer - Real-Time Data & Streaming

Disney Cruise Line - The Walt Disney Company; California, United States, Northern America, Americas; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to join their team in California. This role emphasizes building and operating distributed data and machine learning infrastructure for real-time sports experiences. You will collaborate with teams to develop streaming data pipelines and ensure systems operate reliably at scale.

The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of industry experience, a strong background in distributed systems, and proficiency in Python. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience building data-intensive or ML-adjacent systems in production.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and data processing architectures.
• Proficiency in Python and working knowledge of Java, Scala, Go, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-throughput batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Develop and operate systems for real-time feature computation.
• Collaborate with applied ML and data science teams.

Skills

Large-scale data systems

Distributed systems

Streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis)

Python

Cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes)

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Spark

Flink

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to join their team in California. This role emphasizes building and operating distributed data and machine learning infrastructure for real-time sports experiences. You will collaborate with teams to develop streaming data pipelines and ensure systems operate reliably at scale.

The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of industry experience, a strong background in distributed systems, and proficiency in Python. Competitive salary and benefits are offered.