Senior Data Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Santa Monica, CASeattle, WASan Francisco, CA
Salary
$157,800–$211,600 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
13 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

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This role pays more than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $126,800–$212,625 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $185k versus about $170k for comparable roles.

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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 90 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $150,900–$202,400 across 90 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Data Engineer

The Sr Data Engineer joins the Ad Platforms team to build and maintain Identity Householding Data products. This role serves as a source of truth for enterprise-wide customer identifiers and groupings across sports, news, and entertainment content. You will build and maintain product-driven initiatives to expand identity and device data offerings while enhancing the underlying codebase for extensibility and maintainability. Daily tasks include redesigning data models to improve performance, increasing unit test coverage, and participating in Agile ceremonies and code reviews. You will utilize Python, Scala, Spark, and SQL to process petabyte-level datasets using Databricks, Presto, and Hive. Required skills include experience with Snowflake, Redshift, or Big Query, data modeling, Airflow, CI/CD, and AWS S3 to ensure reliable real-time and batch data delivery.

What does a Data Engineer earn in California?

Median $187700 from 41 postings across 21 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to expand Identity and Device data product offerings.
  • Develop scalable, fault-tolerant data processing pipelines for real-time and batch data delivery.
  • Enhance the underlying codebase to ensure it is extensible, reusable, and maintainable.
  • Increase unit test coverage on the existing codebase to improve software quality.
  • Redesign data models to modernize products, improve performance, and decrease costs.
  • Participate in code reviews and provide technical problem-solving for the engineering team.
  • Participate in on-call support to ensure production system reliability.
  • Articulate technical decisions and outcomes to product managers, designers, and other stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or a comparable field of study.
  • 5+ years of related big data engineering experience modeling and developing large data pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience with distributed systems such as Databricks compute using Spark, Presto, and Hive to process petabyte-level datasets.
  • Strong Python, Scala/Spark, and SQL skills for processing big datasets.
  • Experience with at least one major MPP or cloud database technology such as Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query, or Databricks.
  • Familiarity with Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices.
  • Operational experience as a point-of-contact or SME in multi-system/services production environments.
  • Solid experience with data integration and orchestration toolsets (e.g. Airflow), CI/CD, and AWS S3.
  • Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform (preferred).
  • Understanding of householding algorithms and third-party data enrichment tools (preferred).

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