Sr Data Engineer

The Walt Disney Company; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent global leader in entertainment, The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Sr Data Engineer to enhance its audience data platforms. This critical role focuses on building reliable and scalable data processing systems to support diverse business needs across their digital products. Applicants should have extensive experience in big data engineering, with strong foundations in Python and SQL, coupled with a Bachelor's degree in a related field.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of big data engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain audience platform initiatives.
• Partner with colleagues to understand data requirements.
• Design ETL pipelines for scalable solutions.

Skills

Big Data Engineering

Data Modeling

Python

SQL

Distributed Systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Airflow

Snowflake

Job description

Sr Data Engineer

Apply Now Apply Later Job ID 10121548 Location Seattle, Washington, United States / Los Angeles, California, United States / Santa Monica, California, United States Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted6月. 06, 2025

Job Summary:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses.We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

1. Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

2. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.

3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Job Summary:

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

This role involves building and maintaining the Audience Manager Platform (AMP), a centralized Disney audience data platform that captures & processes all Disney consumers cross channel behavior and delivers varying summarizations in a timely manner to multiple endpoints to support all business needs. At its core, it is a product that provides a comprehensive source of truth for customer data.It is built around customer profiles and is able to provide insights from across the business so stakeholders can quickly act on the data through activation pipelines.

The role requires expert knowledge of building scalable, fault-tolerant data processing pipelines and backend to ensure the reliable delivery of audience data.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Build and maintain audience platform initiatives to improve and expand audience targeting capabilities.

• Partner with technical and non-technical colleagues to understand audience data and targeting requirements.

• Work with engineering teams to collect required data from internal and external systems.

• Support Agile methodologies such as Scrum by actively participating in regular ceremonies such as stand-up, retrospectives and sprint planning.

• Design table structures and define ETL pipelines to build performant and scalable solutions

• Develop Data Quality checks

• Participate in on-call support

• Develop and maintain ETL routines using ETL and orchestration tools such as Airflow

• Perform ad hoc analysis and SQL and ETL tuning as necessary.

• Participate in code reviews and problem-solving.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of big data engineering experience modeling and developing large data pipelines

• Hands-on experience with distributed systems such as Spark, Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Presto, PySpark) to query and process data

• Strong Python and SQL skills processing big datasets

• Experience with at least one major MPP or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query, Databricks)

• Familiarity with Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices

• API and backend development experience

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $145,400.00 to $195,000.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC , which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology .

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

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