Software Engineer II

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & 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 are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. 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: More than ever, 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. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.  

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. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company. 

Engineering Services designs, builds, and sustains technology that powers DE&E Technology’s worldwide content production and distribution platforms. In doing so, they contribute to a series of cross-functional services and technologies, including Quality Assurance, Data Analytics, Software Development, Broadcast Infrastructure, and Networking & Security.

The Data Measurement  tools team build tool sets that profiles, audits, certifies, and communicates the consistency, accuracy, availability, and resilience of our data. We build, maintain, and monitor thousands of signals required to ensure that our data can be used to drive critical insights on our business, to provide quality input to our machine learning models, and to serve as a foundation for the innovation and creativity required to move us forward as the world’s premier streaming service.

Job Summary:

As a Software Engineer on the Data Measurement  Tools team, you will provide the technical and business skills to build tools that ensure Disney data is trusted. The ideal candidate will help to visualize and build tooling that define, measure, support and certify the data pipelines and systems that serve data to our business and millions of users. Core responsibilities for this position include:

• Leverage your skills in SQL, Scala, and Python to build tooling that measure and evaluate the quality, consistency, resilience, accuracy, and availability of our data
• Provide intuitive reports that show stakeholders the “state” of their data in actionable form
• Build and scale various tools to enhance data observability and data measurement
• Automate processes, procedures, and workflows to ease data certification process
• Collaborate with engineering, management, product, and business teams to improve data reliability across products and projects

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• 70% Software Engineering & Design
• 20% Stakeholder Engagement
• 10% Monitoring & Research

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in designing and executing queries to assess the veracity of datasets
• Ability to read/write complex SQL queries to analyze data, investigate systemic defects
• Familiarity with statistical methods for assessing and evaluating data
• 3+ years experience working with at least one or more industry-standard database technologies (mySql, Snowflake, Hive)
• 3+ years of experience in programming languages like Python or Java
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills that translate across technical and business domains
• Team-oriented and independently motivated to deliver results
• Patience and resilience in working with the sometimes ambiguous requirements that characterize innovation projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in using reporting tools like Tableau or Looker
• Proficiency in git or similar version control tools
• Proficiency in machine learning model development
• Experience working in big data environments (Hadoop, S3, HBase)

Experience with:

• Python
• SQL
• Stakeholder engagement

Required Education  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics or related technical discipline or its equivalent.

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $120,300 - $161,300 per year, in Santa Monica, CA is $114,900 - $154,100 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.