The Walt Disney Company

Principal Data Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Lake Buena VistaCaliforniaFloridaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $171,600 - $230,100 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • You will be responsible for planning and leading research, development, and delivery related to advanced analytic data solutions, leveraging GenAI.
  • You will design, build, and operate intelligent agent systems that power largescale, data intensive applications.
  • This role focuses on architecting agentic workflows, integrating large language models (LLMs) with enterprise data platforms, and delivering production grade systems that reason, plan, and act across complex data environments.
  • This includes working with business and technology leaders to understand scope and requirements, business needs, and data from across the Disney company.
  • Other activities include planning, estimating, design, development, testing, production rollout, and sustainment activities.
  • You will also need to consult and collaborate with project team members, lead design reviews, do hands-on development, and communicate with colleagues and leaders.

Requirements

  • 10+ years experience in technology roles, preferably in data engineering, software engineering, and/or architecture
  • Demonstrated experience working with a broad range of GenAI models, tools, and foundational concepts
  • Experience architecting multi-agent systems with orchestrator-driven delegation and agent-to-agent handoffs
  • Experience designing and building automated evaluation/scoring to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability at scale
  • Experience designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, including chunking strategies, vector databases and embedded model selection
  • Experience leveraging Knowledge Graphs and structured ontologies as semantic memory layers
  • Experience partnering with stakeholders to help define project scope based on technical capabilities and translate requirements into technical engineering tasks
  • Experience defining solutions to sophisticated data engineering problems in support of advanced analytic processes
  • Experience leading and deploying code using a source control product such as GitLab/GitHub and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience building and integrating RESTful APIs, function-calling interfaces, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to equip agents with access to enterprise data, services, and real-time context
  • Experience with defining and estimating level-of-effort for engineering activities
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts and solutions to non-technical team members
  • Demonstrated expertise using SQL and Python
  • Proven ability to work collaboratively in a multi-team environment.
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, dependent on the level and position offered.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
GenAIlarge language models (LLMs)multi-agent systemsautomated evaluationRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Knowledge GraphsSQLPythonRESTful APIsCI/CD pipelines
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationleadershipplanningproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementdesign reviewtechnical translationhands-on developmentproject estimation