🚀 Data Engineer II

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The Walt Disney Company

💰 Earn $125.000 – $150.000 / year
  • 📍 Location: Santa Monica
  • đź“… Posted: Oct 27, 2025

Overview

Disney Entertainment & ESPN 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 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: 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.
  • 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, including initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach across The Walt Disney Company, such as messaging and privacy. It is also 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

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join the Data Foundations Platform and Governance Engineering team. This team spans the technology platforms within the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product and Technology group. The role focuses on privacy solutions and data subject rights automation, working cross-functionally with analytics, data architecture, legal and security partners to build scalable solutions to solve complex privacy-related challenges. This role requires acute attention to detail, a strong sense of accountability, collaboration, and an understanding of large-scale cloud data platform infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in the design and lead the build out of data engineering products.
  • Assist in developing monitoring to alert for operational errors and work to resolve issues as they arise.
  • Respond to legal inquiries for consumer data.
  • Supports the maintenance of data protection solutions.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience required
  • 3+ years of enterprise experience with data and platforms including: Provisioning/Data Capture, Big Data, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills and written communication skills
  • Experience and comfort solving problems in an ambiguous environment where there is constant change
  • Ability to think logically, communicate clearly, and be well organized
  • Technologies such as OneTrust, Databricks, Jupyter, Snowflake, Redshift, Airflow, DynamoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Kinesis, REST APIs, Terraform, Go
  • SQL, Python, Scala, or other computer software languages

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in the technology industry and knowledge of data and product a plus
  • Knowledge of agile SDLC methodologies
  • Experience with documentation creation / maintenance
  • Familiarity with privacy regulations and/or data subject rights

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Compensation

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $114,900 - $154,100 per year and in New York, NY is $120,300 - $161,300 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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.

Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Information Technology

Industries

  • Entertainment Providers

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