Software Engineer II

The Walt Disney Company • Santa Monica, WA

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About The Position

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization responsible for building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business. The team focuses on marrying technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive innovation and scalability. They work across The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio, including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, and ABC News. The Commerce, Data & Identity segment provides core product management functions for digital commerce, identity, growth, messaging, and privacy, and is responsible for data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN. Engineering Services designs, builds, and sustains technology for worldwide content production and distribution platforms, contributing to Quality Assurance, Data Analytics, Software Development, Broadcast Infrastructure, and Networking & Security. The Data Measurement tools team specifically builds tool sets to profile, audit, certify, and communicate the consistency, accuracy, availability, and resilience of data. As a Software Engineer on this team, the role involves building tools to ensure Disney data is trusted, visualizing and building tooling to define, measure, support, and certify data pipelines and systems that serve data to the business and millions of users.

Requirements

• 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 Scala/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
• BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems or related degree/experience.

Nice To Haves

• 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
• Experience with: SQL
• Experience with: Stakeholder engagement

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• bonus
• long-term incentive units
• medical benefits
• financial benefits
• other benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees