Data Engineer II

The Walt Disney Company

Data Engineer II responsible for designing foundational datasets for machine learning models at Disney. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize data pipelines and enhance user experiences.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeSeattle • California, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $112,000 - $150,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudJavaPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, craft and own high quality foundational datasets to produce reliable, meaningful inputs for machine learning models and subscriber experiences
Source, analyze and validate diverse upstream data sources from upstream partner teams and raw signals using exploratory data analysis
Identify and build new user and content data features for recommendation systems through collaboration with machine learning engineers
Enhance existing feature quality through experimentation, analysis and iterative development
Build, optimize and maintain large scale data processing jobs, pipelines and workloads
Improve data quality and reliability through implementing checks, anomaly detection, testing, monitoring and alerting
Contribute to operational excellence by following observability best practices and participating in an on-call rotation to support critical production data pipelines

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field), or equivalent work experience
3 years of experience working with large scale data workloads, building and curating datasets and developing data pipelines and processing jobs
Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or comparable object-oriented language
Experience working with Databricks or equivalent large-scale data processing platforms
Demonstrated knowledge of operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Experience working with source control systems and CI/CD pipelines
Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, design patterns, etc.)

Benefits

Comp & perks

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data AnalysisExploratory Data AnalysisFeature EngineeringAnomaly DetectionData Quality ImprovementData StructuresAlgorithmsDesign Patterns