Software Data Engineer
Overview:
In this Data Engineer role within Disney's Enterprise Media and Marketing, you will expand our data tooling and build robust data pipelines, supporting data-driven marketing campaigns. You'll work embedded with the Disney media team to blend advertising with scalable data insights, driving production-ready pipelines and reliable metrics. The position offers fast-paced, cross-functional collaboration and opportunities to shape how we plan and optimize paid media at scale. You'll join a mission-driven team that values innovation and practical AI/LLM applications to improve campaigns. Compensation / Benefitsremote workbonus and/or long-term incentive unitsmedical benefitscompetitive payinternal equityfull range of benefits dependent on position
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the development of the Performance Marketing toolset
- Set data engineering standards for pipelines, observability, and documentation
- Design and manage end-to-end data pipelines from source to consumers
- Collaborate with marketing professionals to move prototypes to production pipelines
- Implement quality controls and safeguards to ensure accurate campaign optimizations and metrics
Key requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience)3+ years designing and delivering backend architectures in production, with strong design-pattern knowledge
- Strong opinions on AI/LLMs in software development; ability to discern value
- Experience with Spark and SQL; building maintainable data pipelines on scaled data platforms
- Ability to dive deep into technical components
- Experience in fast-paced, cross-functional environments translating business needs into requirements
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Analytical mindset and problem-solving
- Adaptability to fast-paced environments
SparkSQLDatabricks/Snowflake