Staff Network Reliability Engineer
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Manager, Database Reliability Engineering
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • California, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $145,400 - $195,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
AirflowAnsibleAWSAzureCassandraCloudETLJavaKafkaMongoDBMySQLNoSQLOraclePostgresPythonScalaSparkSQLTerraform
About the role
- Lead, build, and mentor high-performing teams in data engineering and database reliability, fostering ownership, innovation, and engineering excellence.
- Define and communicate a clear vision and roadmap for data platforms aligned to business and technology strategy.
- Architect and oversee data pipelines, ingestion frameworks, and integration solutions to manage structured and unstructured data from multiple sources.
- Drive adoption of modern data engineering practices including ETL/ELT, stream processing, and automation frameworks.
- Ensure data quality, integrity, governance, and observability across cloud (Snowflake, AWS, Azure), hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Provide leadership for PostgreSQL and MySQL operations, including high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and performance optimization.
- Partner with application engineering, analytics, DevOps, and security teams to deliver robust and compliant data platforms.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and architectures for data management and platform scalability.
- Manage project schedules, resources, and delivery milestones for both data engineering initiatives and database reliability efforts.
- Present strategies, progress, and recommendations in senior technical and executive forums.
- Develop and manage budgets, optimizing spend on cloud services, licensing, and infrastructure.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, customer focus, and technical excellence.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering and database management, with proven leadership in managing technical teams.
- Strong expertise in modern data platforms: Snowflake, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, or similar orchestration tools.
- Deep knowledge of NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, NeptuneDB) and relational DBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle).
- Proven success designing and managing ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming solutions, and large-scale data integrations.
- Proficiency in programming/scripting (Python, Scala, Java, SQL).
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
- Experience managing production database environments on-prem and in the cloud (AWS RDS, Azure Managed DBs).
- Strong communication and executive presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage budgets and optimize cloud/data infrastructure costs.
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
data engineeringdatabase managementETLELTstream processingdata pipelinesdata integrationprogrammingscriptingdata quality
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationpresentationteam mentoringcustomer focuscontinuous improvementtechnical excellence