Data Engineer

Job Description

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we're reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world's most beloved stories while also transforming Disney's media business for the future. Whether that's evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney's unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you'd love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
• Building the future of Disney's media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney's media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
• Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Job Summary:

The Data Platforms Team, a segment under the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DEET) organization is looking for a Data Engineer II to join our Product Performance & Instrumentation Data Team. Product Performance Data is critical to making product level decisions for the DEET Portfolio whether it's related to product design, measuring advertising effectiveness, helping users discover new content or building new businesses in emerging markets. This data is deeply valuable and gives us insights into how we can continue improving our service for our users, advertisers and our content partners. Our Product Performance & Instrumentation Data Engineering team is seeking a highly motivated Data Engineer with a strong technical background who is passionate about designing and building systems to process data at scale to provide business value, create models and features that unlock powerful insights, and work across software and data disciplines to solve difficult unique problems at scale. Our tech stack includes AWS, Databricks, Airflow, Spark, Databricks and languages include Scala and Python.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
• Contribute to the architecture, design and growth of our Data Products and Data pipelines in Scala and Python / Spark while maintaining uptime SLAs.
• Design and develop scalable solutions, building ETL pipelines in Big Data environments (cloud, on-prem, hybrid)
• Our tech stack includes AWS, Snowflake, Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake and Airflow and languages include Python, Scala.
• Collaborate with Data Product Managers, Data Architects and Data Engineers to design, implement, and deliver successful data solutions.
• Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance.
• Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum practice to ensure health and process improvements for your team.
• Be a problem solver; when presented with new challenges, you are expected to research and network to find solutions.
• Seek out answers to business problems and look for opportunities to automate processes & optimize Cost.
• Engage with and understand our customers, forming relationships that allow us to understand and prioritize both innovative new offerings and incremental platform improvements.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
• At least 3 years of data engineering experience developing large data pipelines.
• Strong SQL skills and ability to create queries to extract data and build performant datasets.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems such as Spark, Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Presto, PySpark) to query and process data.
• Fundamental Scala and/or Python programming skills.
• Strong hands-on Experience with Cloud technologies like AWS (S3, EMR, EC2)
• Experience with Snowflake & Databricks technologies is a must.
• Solid experience with data integration toolsets (i.e Airflow) and writing and maintaining Data Pipelines with Databricks.
• Experience in Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices
• Familiar with Scrum and Agile methodologies
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills, communication skills including ability to partner with others and build consensus in a cross-functional team toward a desired outcome.

Required Education
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience.

The hiring range for this position in Seattle and New York is $107,400.00 - $143,900.00 per year, in Los Angeles is $102,500 - $137,500 per year and in San Francisco is $112,300 - $150,600. 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.

About Disney Direct to Consumer:

Disney's Direct to Consumer team oversees the Hulu and Disney+ streaming businesses within Disney Entertainment helping to bring The Walt Disney Company's best-in-class storytelling to fans and families everywhere.

This position is with Hulu, LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Direct to Consumer.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1kz0m-18-116-51-117-42 in your application.