Lead Data Engineer
Aplicar ahora Aplique más tarde Job ID 10136508 Ubicación Santa Mónica, California, Estados Unidos / San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos / Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Fecha de publicación 21/01/2026Detalles del empleo:
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:
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. 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. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
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.
Job Summary:
The Search Machine Learning (ML) team powers the ML aspects of search engines for Disney+ platform, in a highly collaborative environment. ML-based services are embedded inside the entire life cycle of search journey, from query understanding, semantic retrieval, and engagement-based re-ranking of contents. Working closely with our product stakeholders, we are constantly testing new ideas, and bringing the proven ones into fruition, through experimentation.
In this role, you will be leading the data operation aspects of our ML services, from data warehousing, building and owning ETL pipelines, and standing up feature stores for low-latency feature access to our ML micro-services. This is a highly collaborative role, where you will be able to own the entire lifecycle of data pipelines, communicate your requirements with upstream DATA teams, bring your data engineering skills and ideas into life by engineering efficient data pipelines, and help supporting the feature requirements by the ML engineers/data scientists.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
- Design, own, and optimize our offline (Spark) and near-line (Kinesis, Kafka) data pipelines.
- Stand up scalable and performant online feature stores; build SDKs around both customized and provisioned feature stores.
- Integrate online feature stores with the ML service layer to enable real-time model inference and data serving.
- Scope data lineage dependencies and participate in cross-team data model design for upstream and downstream systems.
- Mentor junior data engineers on best practices for testing, validation, and deployment of ETL jobs, including pipeline and feature set versioning, and promoting code from non-prod to prod environments.
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Basic Qualifications
- 7+ years of data engineering experience, with 2+ years of relevant Feature Store experience
- Experience with design trade-offs for low-latency online feature stores
- Hands-on experience with sagemaker/Redis or any other equivalent online Feature Stores
- Experience with large-scale distributed data processing systems, such as Spark, Hadoop, Ray
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with vector databases such as Faiss, Pinecone, Milvus, mongoDB, Qdrant
- Experience building streaming pipelines using Kafka, Kinesis
Required Education
- Bachelor's (MS or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $155,700 - $208,700 per year and in New York City is $163,100 - $218,700 per year and in San Francisco, CA is $170,500 - $228,600 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.
Acerca de Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:
En Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, fusionamos imaginación e innovación para reinventar las formas en las que las personas disfrutan e interactúan con los cuentos y los productos más queridos del mundo. Nuestro trabajo tiene un gran alcance y es sumamente sofisticado. Brindamos experiencias increíbles, transformamos el futuro de los medios de comunicación y creamos productos y plataformas que permiten la conexión entre las personas de cualquier lugar del mundo y los cuentos y los deportes que más les gustan.
Disney tiene la capacidad de combinar tecnología de primer nivel con una creatividad inigualable, y eso nos hace únicos. Es la esencia de nuestro pasado, presente y futuro. Somos narradores e innovadores. Creadores y constructores. Artistas e ingenieros.
Acerca de The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, junto con sus subsidiarias y afiliadas, es una empresa internacional diversificada líder en entretenimiento familiar y medios de comunicación que incluye tres segmentos comerciales principales: Disney Entertainment, ESPN y Disney Experiences. Desde sus humildes comienzos como estudio de dibujos animados en la década de 1920 hasta su reconocido nombre en la industria del entretenimiento en la actualidad, Disney continúa con orgullo su legado de crear historias y experiencias de clase mundial para toda la familia. Las historias, los personajes y las experiencias de Disney llegan a consumidores e invitados de todos los rincones del mundo. Con operaciones en más de 40 países, nuestros empleados y miembros del elenco trabajan juntos para crear experiencias de entretenimiento que sean apreciadas a nivel local y global.
Este puesto es en Disney Streaming Technology LLC , que forma parte de una empresa comercial que denominamos Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Streaming Technology LLC es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Los solicitantes recibirán consideración para el empleo independientemente de su raza, religión, color, sexo, orientación sexual, género, identidad de género, expresión de género, nacionalidad, ascendencia, edad, estado civil, condición de militar o veterano, afección médica, información genética o discapacidad, o cualquier otro fundamento prohibido por la ley federal, estatal o local. Disney defiende un entorno empresarial donde las ideas y decisiones de todas las personas nos ayudan a crecer, innovar, crear las mejores historias y ser relevantes en un mundo en constante evolución.