Data Engineer II

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. 

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.  

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here: 

• Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. 

• Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.  

• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Commerce, Data & Identity provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney’s media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company.

Job Summary:

The Data Reliability Engineer II will help us in the ongoing mission of delivering outstanding services to our users allowing Disney Entertainment to be more data-driven. You will work closely with the senior members of our team to monitor and drive improvements for reliability and observability of critical data pipelines and deliverables. This is a high-impact role where your work informs decisions affecting millions of consumers, with a direct tie to The Walt Disney Company’s revenue. You will be making an outsized impact in an organization that values data as its top priority. We are a tight and driven team with big goals, so we seek people who are passionate about solving the toughest challenges and working at scale, using, supporting, and building distributed systems in a fast-paced collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Assist with on-call rotations as an Incident Commander to help categorize and track real time data incidents, loop in engineering resources as needed to ensure a timely resolution.

• Help drive our problem management process to ensure root cause of data incidents are analyzed and understood, and follow-up work is prioritized with our partner teams.

• Play a key role in our long-term Incident and Problem Management strategy by contributing to the development of a Data Reliability Observability Platform that will assist in quantifying incident impacts, communicate these  and track the overall health of our data and data pipelines.

• Partner with our support and data quality teams, defining success KPI’s, ensuring observability and automation coverage of our pipelines and help create dashboards and visualizations for teams to monitor the health of our systems

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent work experience.

• 3+ years of relevant data engineering experience

• Good understanding of data modeling principles including Dimensional modeling, data normalization principles

• Experience with process engineering and continuous improvement.

• Detailed problem-solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of drive and ownership

• Strong communication skills – written and verbal presentations.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.

• Familiarity with Agile Scrum principles and ceremonies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in a related field, and/or related certification/s

• 2+ years of work experience implementing and reporting on business key performance indicators in data warehousing environments, exposure to reliability engineering best practices a plus.

• 2+ years of experience using analytic SQL, working with traditional relational databases and/or distributed systems (Snowflake or Redshift)

• 1+ years of experience programming languages (e.g. Python, Pyspark)

• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks/EMR/Spark, and/or Airflow

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The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $104,600 - $140,200 per year, in Seattle, WA is $109,500 - $146,800 per year, and in New York, NY is $109,500 - $146,800 per year. 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.