Lead Data Engineer

$159,500 - $213,900/Yr

Disney - Santa Monica, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Santa Monica, CA

Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

About the position

The Machine Learning (ML) Engineering team at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is focused on driving and enabling machine learning usage across various domains. This role involves developing and improving ML infrastructure, particularly in event-driven ML pipelines, and supporting key product functions such as personalization and recommendation. The position emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams to innovate and enhance the data and ML infrastructure that powers Disney's media business.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve feature store tooling and services, and contribute to the ML infrastructure development
• Collaborate with ML practitioners to build streaming data ecosystem
• Develop low-latency services to enable and support event-driven pipelines
• Work on multi-faceted projects with engineers from diverse backgrounds and across teams
• Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation
• Work in an Agile environment that focuses on collaboration and teamwork

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of software experience working in large scale, real-time distributed systems
• Experience building and deploying big data pipelines in production
• Experience with cloud technologies in AWS (Amazon Web Services) or GCP as well as container systems such as Docker or Kubernetes
• Passion for building platforms and infrastructure excellence
• Excellent communication and people engagement skills

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with ML pipelines, data ecosystem and AWS technologies
• Building ML infrastructure, streaming ML applications
• Experience shipping entertainment and media applications for streaming purposes

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package