Sr Data Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

Remote Actively hiring
Remote, USA · San Francisco, CA Posted 15 days ago $138,900–$186,200 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

The Senior Data Engineer role at Disney's Ad Platforms organization involves designing and building data foundations that power AI adoption across advertising technology. This highly collaborative team focuses on creating end-to-end solutions using machine learning, big data, microservices, and data visualization technologies. As a senior member, you will develop high-performance streaming and batch data pipelines, implement embedding generation workflows, and integrate with shared AI platform services to ensure reliable data delivery. Additionally, you will embed observability into data systems, validate data quality, and mentor junior team members while driving the development lifecycle from prototyping to deployment. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of data engineering experience, expertise in Python or Java, and hands-on knowledge of tools like Kafka, Flink, Spark, Pinecone, Weaviate, and AWS big data tech stack. This role requires strong collaboration skills and a passion for delivering real business impact through robust data platforms.

Skills

Python Java SQL Kafka Flink Spark Kinesis Pinecone Weaviate FAISS pgvector Airflow Dagster AWS S3 Glue MWAA Datadog Prometheus Databricks LangChain

What you'll do

  • Design and build high-performance streaming and batch data pipelines for AI applications.
  • Implement embedding generation workflows and vector store integrations for semantic search and AI assistants.
  • Develop scalable storage and retrieval patterns focusing on cost-efficient architecture and production performance.
  • Embed end-to-end observability into data systems, including metrics, logging, alerts, and failure analysis.
  • Mentor junior team members and lead by example through strong execution and proactive problem-solving.
  • Collaborate with ML engineering, product, and governance teams to deliver production-ready AI capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of data engineering experience with at least 1 year in a lead or senior technical role.
  • Expertise in building and scaling streaming data pipelines in large-scale distributed environments using Kafka, Flink, Spark, Kinesis.
  • Strong skills in Python, Java, and SQL, with expert level proficiency in either Python or Java.
  • Experience with embedding pipelines and vector stores like Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, pgvector.
  • Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster.
  • Proven ability to collaborate closely across AI engineering, infrastructure, product teams.

Market check

Salary context

This $138,900–$186,200 range sits above 58% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$117,600–$190,150

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$126,800–$192,287

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is a diversified global entertainment and media enterprise operating in segments including Disney Parks, Experiences and Products; Entertainment (ABC, Hulu, Disney+); and ESPN. Industry: Entertainment & Media

The Walt Disney Company currently has 118 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $141,900–$190,300 across 110 roles with salary data.

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