Data Engineer II - Ad Intelligence

Job ID 10111064 Location Glendale, California, United States / Bristol, Connecticut, United States / Santa Monica, California, United States / San Francisco, California, United States / New York, New York, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States Business Disney Entertainment Date posted Apr. 08, 2025

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Job Summary:

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

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.

Ad Platforms organization within Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology is fully responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Advertising Platform across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu and ESPN+. We build and maintain proprietary technology, ranging from ad serving and ad delivery, campaign management, reporting as well as all the integrations internal and external that come with evolving and maintaining a best-in-class video advertising business.

The Ad Intelligence team is under Ad Platforms and its mission is to transform advertising and Disney's Ad platform with data and AI across TV and streaming video. We build solutions to measure and optimize every aspect of the advertising life cycle. Our tenant is a strong cross-domain team to deliver E2E solutions covering tech areas ranging from machine learning, big data, microservices to data visualization. Our team is seeking a senior software engineer who will be a core team member for our advertising data platform engineering group. This engineering group focuses on big data infrastructure, operational data, audience solution, inventory forecasting and full funnel measurements as a foundation layer for Disney’s addressable Ad Platforms. The right person for this role should have extensive experience on bigdata as well as solid expertise on backend services or full stack

Responsibilities

Build components of large-scale data platform for real-time and batch processing, and own features of big data applications to fit evolving business needs
Build next-gen cloud based big data infrastructure for batch and streaming data applications, and continuously improve performance, scalability and availability
Contribute to the best engineering practices, including the use of design patterns, CI/CD, code review and automated test
As a key member of the team, contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation and testing.
Collaborate with program managers, product managers, SDET, and researchers in an open and innovative environment
Day-to-Day technical operations of the Data & BI channel
Ensure monitoring and alerting on production services are in place and be available on-call for production incidents.
Triage and troubleshoot operational issues, run point on escalations, and provide Tier 2/3 support
Deliver on channel-specific key performance metrics (KPM) to track channel health and growth
Develop strong partnerships with ad sales, business intelligence, engineering, product management, and analytics leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical channel objectives
Analyze and communicate the impact of key strategy, market, or product changes

Basic Qualifications:

3+ years of data engineering experience developing large data pipelines
Experience delivering products in an agile software development environment including sprint work in Jira
Strong SQL experience including writing/optimizing complex queries against distributed data stores such as Hadoop, Hive, Oracle, and Snowflake
Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Apache NiFi or Apache Airflow
Expert level knowledge in at least one programming language such as Python, R, Scala, Java.
Demonstrated experience working with business intelligence tools such as MicroStrategy, Tableau, Business Objects, Looker, etc.
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to technical and unacquainted audiences
Strong presentation and documentation skills including experience working with Confluence, Power Point, and LucidChart
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and partner across multiple teams and organizations

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in ad technology, operations, or support, preferably with focus in video advertising technology or digital advertising systems
Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, ALB, and etc.
Experience with Druid, Snowflake, Presto, Kinesis, etc.
Experience with network topologies, systems architecture overviews, and entity relationship diagrams (ERD)
Enjoy working collaboratively with a talented group of people to tackle challenging business problems so we all succeed (or fail fast) as a team

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Applied Mathematics, Electronics Engineering, related technical fields, or equivalent experience

Additional Information

#DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $104,600 to $140,200 per year, Santa Monica, California is $104,600 to $140,200 per year in Bristol, Connecticut is $104,600 to $140,200 per year, in Seattle, Washington is $109,500 to $146,800 per year. in New York City, NY is $109,500 to $146,800 per year, and in San Francisco, California is $114,500 to $153,500 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.

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About Disney Entertainment:

At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you’ll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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