Principal Data Engineer
Company: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
Location: Santa Monica
Posted on: October 6, 2024
Job Description:
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology,
we're reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for
the world's most beloved stories while also transforming Disney's
media business for the future. Whether that's evolving our
streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering
worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and
efficiency, or delivering Disney's unmatched entertainment and
sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to
partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.A
few reasons why we think you'd love working for Disney
Entertainment & ESPN Technology
- Building the future of Disney's media business: DE&E
Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that
will power Disney's media, advertising, and distribution businesses
for years to come.
- Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and
operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day -
from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and
ESPN+, and much more.
- Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and
techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences
experience sports, entertainment & news.The Product & Data
Engineering team is responsible for end to end development for
Disney's world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming
platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products &
experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC
News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers
around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles,
and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like
personalization, search, messaging and data.This role involves
building and maintaining our Audience Manager Platform (AMP), a
centralized Disney audience data platform that captures & processes
all Disney consumers cross channel behavior and delivers varying
summarizations in a timely manner to multiple endpoints to support
all business needs. - At its core, it is a product that provides a
comprehensive source of truth for customer data. - It is built
around customer profiles and is able to provide insights from
across the business so stakeholders can quickly act on the data
through activation pipelinesWe are looking for a Principal Software
Engineer who is passionate about developing high performance data
platforms. To be successful in this role, you need effective
communication and collaboration skills, a passion for learning and
trying new things, and a strong foundational understanding of
programming and computer science.As a member of our team, you will
apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable,
performant, maintainable, and testable software.Responsibilities:
- Work with a distributed team of engineers across multiple
products building software collaboratively.
- Work cross-team to build consensus on approach for delivering
projects
- Collaborate with business partners to understand and refine
requirements
- Eliminate ambiguity in projects and communicate direction to
engineers to help team members work in parallel
- Ramp up quickly on existing software to deliver incremental,
integrated solutions in a complex environment
- Build high-performance, stable, scalable systems to be deployed
in an enterprise setting
- Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning
sessions
- Participate in the code review process by assessing pull
requests
- Support systems and services during production incidents as
part of the on-call rotation
- Author and recommend technical proposals and root cause
analyses
- Provide mentoring and advice for other specialists
- Establish engineering practices and standards within the team
to drive quality and excellence
- Represent the DEET technical community at presentations, tech
talks, and other knowledge-sharing effortsBasic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems,
Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable
field of study, and/or equivalent work experience. - -
- Minimum of 10 years of related big data engineering experience
modeling and developing large data pipelines and platforms
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems such as Spark,
Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Presto, PySpark) to query and process data
- Expert in Python and SQL skills processing big datasets
- A - strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data
structures, algorithms, databases, etc.)
- Experience with at least one major MPP or cloud database
technology (Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query, Databricks)
- Expert in Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing
standard methodologies and practices
- You are a problem solver with strong attention to detail and
excellent analytical and communication skills
- In-depth experience with Cloud technologies like AWS (S3, ECS,
EMR, EC2, Lambda, etc.)
- Solid experience with data integration toolsets (i.e Airflow),
CI/CD
- Experience using source control systems and CI/CD
pipelines.Preferred Qualifications
- Proficient with Scrum and Agile methodologies
- Experience directly managing and mentoring a
team.#DISNEYTECH
The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $164,500
to $220,600 per year and in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is
$172,300 to $231,100 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.
Keywords: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, Santa Monica , Principal Data Engineer, Engineering , Santa Monica, California
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