Data Engineer, Security

Job ID 10125442 Location Orlando, Florida, United States / Burbank, California, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States Business The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) Date posted Sep. 04, 2025

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Job Summary:

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

The Global Information Security (GIS) organization strives to secure the magic by employing best-in-class services to assess, prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats that present risk to The Walt Disney Company. We enable the business by integrating enterprise and business segment-specific supported services to create a robust, efficient, and adaptable cybersecurity program. Our key objectives are to:

Secure the Magic by protecting information systems and platforms.
Reduce Risk by proactively assessing, preventing, and detecting to prevent harm to the Company and our Guests.
Strengthen the business through optimizing execution, application, and technology used to protect the Company.
Innovate by investing in core capabilities to enhance operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

Design, build, and fine-tune data pipelines to load data into data warehouse from sources like databases, cloud storage, or streaming platforms.
Analyze and refactor existing Python-based file ingestion processes.
Troubleshoot pipeline failure and implement quality checks, retries, and safeguards to prevent pipeline failures.
Reduce manual intervention through automation in data pipelines.
Create detailed runbooks documenting existing and new data platform processes.
Add unit tests to improve reliability and maintainability.
Design modular, reusable Python code via IaC that will be able to deploy AWS resources and build data platform components.
Assist with Data architecture, building and validating data architecture.
Contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of data pipelines and warehouses in a cloud environment.
Build and maintain data platform with goal of scalability and validation.
Advocate engineering best practices, including the use of design patterns, code review, and automated unit/functional testing.
Collaborate efficiently with product management, technical program management, operations, and other engineering teams.

Basic Qualification

Minimum 3+ years of related experience in Cloud development crafting and implementing solutions using AWS services, with an understanding of at least some core services: IAM, S3, ECS, Lambda, SNS
Strong programming skills in Python and other object-oriented languages, including libraries such as pandas, pydantic, and polars
Experience using source control systems (GitLab, GitHub) and CI/CD pipelines
Experience working with IAC, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK
Experience in SQL (Postgres, Snowflake, etc.) and understanding of trade-offs between different data storage systems and architectures (data warehouses, SQL vs NoSQL, partitioning, etc.)
Experience with scripting using BASH, or SHELL

Preferred Qualifications

Experience creating orchestration patterns and infrastructure using Apache Airflow, or other orchestration tools
Experience using Queuing tech, such as SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Kinesis
Experience with data pipeline creation
Experience with security protocols or related data
Experience with AGILE/Scrum practices
Experience building, maintaining and using container technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $99,600.00 - $133,500.00 per year, Burbank, CA is $104,600.00 - $140,200.00 per year, and in Seattle, WA is $109,500 - $146,800.00. 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 The Walt Disney Company (Corporate):

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 Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).

Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. 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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