The Walt Disney Company

Senior Data Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: GlendaleCaliforniaWashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $138,900 - $186,200 per year

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About the role

  • Build and maintain high‑performance streaming and batch data pipelines that power AI applications, ensuring reliable low‑latency ingestion and high‑throughput processing.
  • Implement and extend embedding generation workflows, vector store integrations, and retrieval pipelines supporting semantic search, RAG systems, and AI assistants.
  • Develop and optimize scalable storage and retrieval patterns, focusing on cost‑efficient architecture and smooth production performance.
  • Implement AI‑optimized data models and storage patterns that align with broader enterprise architecture and platform requirements.
  • Integrate pipelines with shared AI platform services (agent frameworks, registries, feature stores), ensuring clean, versioned, and reliable data delivery.
  • Build reusable ingestion, transformation, and data processing components that streamline adoption across engineering teams.
  • Embed end‑to‑end observability into data systems, including metrics, structured logging, automated alerts, drift detection, and failure analysis.
  • Implement robust data quality validation, schema evolution safeguards, and governance/compliance controls.
  • Ensure deployed pipelines meet high standards for reliability, recoverability, auditability, and long‑term maintenance.
  • Drive execution by owning the full development lifecycle: prototyping, implementation, testing, deployment, optimization, and documentation.
  • Collaborate closely with infrastructure, ML engineering, product, and governance teams to deliver production‑ready AI capabilities.
  • Lead by example through strong execution, high‑quality code, and proactive problem solving.
  • Influence design direction through technical proposals and hands‑on delivery rather than formal ownership of standards.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of data engineering experience, with at least 1 year in a lead or senior technical role.
  • Experience building and scaling streaming data pipelines in large-scale, distributed environments.
  • Strong skills in Python, Java and SQL with expert level skill in either Python or Java.
  • Proven experience building streaming data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Spark, Kinesis).
  • Experience with embedding pipelines and vector stores (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, pgvector).
  • Strong knowledge of data modeling, storage optimization, and retrieval patterns for large-scale systems.
  • Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, etc.).
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to partner across AI engineering, infra, and product teams.
  • Familiarity with testing, monitoring, and automation for data pipelines.
Benefits
  • 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringstreaming data pipelinesPythonJavaSQLdata modelingstorage optimizationworkflow orchestrationembedding pipelinesdata quality validation
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem solvingexecutionleadership