The Walt Disney Company · 10 hours ago
Lead Data Engineer
Santa Monica, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$156K/yr - $209K/yr
7+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global organization of engineers and technologists focused on advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business. The Lead Data Engineer will lead data operations for machine learning services, focusing on building and optimizing data pipelines and feature stores to support real-time model inference.
Amusement Park and ArcadeAnimationConsumer GoodsDigital MediaE-CommerceMedia and EntertainmentMulti-level MarketingPerforming ArtsResorts
Responsibilities
Design, own, and optimize our offline (Spark) and near-line (Kinesis, Kafka) data pipelines
Stand up scalable and performant online feature stores; build SDKs around both customized and provisioned feature stores
Integrate online feature stores with the ML service layer to enable real-time model inference and data serving
Scope data lineage dependencies and participate in cross-team data model design for upstream and downstream systems
Mentor junior data engineers on best practices for testing, validation, and deployment of ETL jobs, including pipeline and feature set versioning, and promoting code from non-prod to prod environments
Qualification
Required
7+ years of data engineering experience, with 2+ years of relevant Feature Store experience
Experience with design trade-offs for low-latency online feature stores
Hands-on experience with sagemaker/Redis or any other equivalent online Feature Stores
Experience with large-scale distributed data processing systems, such as Spark, Hadoop, Ray
Bachelor's (MS or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
Preferred
Familiarity with vector databases such as Faiss, Pinecone, Milvus, mongoDB, Qdrant
Experience building streaming pipelines using Kafka, Kinesis
Benefits
Medical
Financial
Other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Iger
CEO
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2026-01-20
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