Job Posting Title:

Staff Product Development Engineer

Req ID:

10146908

Job Description:

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 our 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 enhance 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 here:

• Building the future of Disney’s media: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our 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 implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

We are seeking a Data Engineer who will partner with metadata, CDN, and other teams to create reliable, resilient, and highly observable data pipelines that manage synchronization and verify correctness for critical features within the product.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with technical and non-technical colleagues to understand data and reporting requirements.
• Work with data product teams to translate business use cases into technical requirements and architecture diagrams.
• Work with engineering teams to collect required data from internal and external systems.
• Architect, tune, and create observability around data pipelines and distributed systems.
• Mentor, define, and direct the technical work for more junior data and software engineers.
• Design table structures and define ETL strategy to build performant Data solutions that are reliable and scalable in a fast growing data ecosystem.
• Develop Data Quality checks and visualizations/dashboards.
• Develop and maintain ETL routines using ETL, Spark and orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Implement database deployments using tools like Liquibase.
• Perform ad hoc analysis as necessary.
• Perform SQL and ETL tuning as necessary.
• Manage synchronization issues, race conditions, and ensure correctness
• Deep understanding of business domain knowledge in order to produce schemas and data models that achieve our business goals
   

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant Professional experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in an analytical field such as economics, mathematics, computer science or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of work experience implementing and reporting on business key performance indicators in data warehousing environments. Strong understanding of data modeling principles including Dimensional modeling, data normalization principles etc.
• 10+ years of experience using analytic SQL, working with traditional relational databases and/or distributed systems such as Snowflake or Redshift.
• 10+ Years of experience programming languages (e.g. Python, Pyspark) preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with workflow management tools (Airflow).
• 5+ years of experience working with Spark on EMR or Databricks.
• Familiarity with Amazon DynamoDB.
• Good understanding of SQL Engines and able to conduct advanced performance tuning
• Ability to think strategically, analyze and interpret market and consumer information.
• Strong communication skills – written and verbal presentations.
• Excellent conceptual and analytical reasoning competencies.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum principles and ceremonies

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Media Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Software Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-03-31