Senior Machine Learning Engineer - ESPN
The Walt Disney Company3 months ago
Glendale, CA, USA +2 moreSenior
Base Salary
$142k - $199k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain high-throughput batch and streaming data pipelines for ML, analytics, and real-time decisioning.
- Develop and operate real-time feature computation and delivery systems, including feature stores and event-driven architectures.
- Build ML-adjacent services such as inference inputs, feature APIs, and data access layers.
- Implement scalable service patterns including autoscaling, rollout strategies, and resiliency mechanisms.
- Instrument data and ML infrastructure with metrics, logging, and alerting, and participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
- Identify and remediate data pipeline failures, performance regressions, and operational risks.
- Collaborate with applied ML, data science, data engineering, platform/SRE, and product teams through design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating large-scale data or ML systems in production.
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and data processing architectures.
- Hands-on experience with streaming and batch technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, Flink, or equivalent.
- Proficiency in Python and working knowledge of Java, Scala, Go, or C++.
- Experience operating systems in cloud-native environments using AWS, containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Familiarity with observability and production operational best practices.
- Strong collaboration skills across engineering and data teams.
- 5+ years of industry experience building data-intensive or ML-adjacent systems in production.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- Preferred experience with real-time personalization, recommendation, analytics systems, feature stores, event-driven architectures, real-time ML pipelines, inference pipelines, data validation, model lifecycle tooling, experimentation platforms, and data instrumentation.
Benefits
- Full-time employment with medical, financial, and other benefits.
- Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided in addition to base pay.
- The role is based in Glendale, California, with an alternate New York, New York location.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringML Engineering
About The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is a diversified entertainment business that produces films and television, operates theme parks and resorts, and runs streaming services including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. It earns revenue from subscriptions and advertising, theatrical distribution, licensing and merchandise, and park admissions and experiences. Founded in 1923 and headquartered in Burbank, California, Disney owns brands such as Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios and serves audiences worldwide.