Software Engineer II - ML and Observability
The Walt Disney Company1 day ago
Glendale, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$118k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to production anomaly-detection models, including autoencoders, statistical threshold models, and ensemble detection systems.
- Develop ML training pipelines using PyTorch on GPU clusters, including feature engineering, training, threshold calibration, and MLflow deployment.
- Process time-series telemetry by implementing windowing, normalization, and data-quality safeguards.
- Support real-time ML inference, model serving, detection logic, and alert generation in production.
- Build AI-driven investigation capabilities using Claude and GPT-4.
- Create scalable FastAPI services that deliver ML predictions, health status, and operational insights.
- Partner with engineering and platform teams to embed ML intelligence into incident response and release validation workflows.
- Improve models through evaluation, retraining, and threshold tuning.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining ML-powered backends, data-driven microservices, and production APIs using FastAPI or Flask.
- Hands-on end-to-end ML engineering experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, including model architecture selection, feature engineering, training, and evaluation.
- Proficiency in Python and at least one ML framework, with PyTorch preferred.
- Experience managing model experiments, lineage, and hyperparameter tracking with MLflow or Weights & Biases.
- Experience processing and querying large-scale telemetry, event, or time-series datasets using PySpark, Pandas, or Databricks.
- Experience with GitHub, Docker, and cloud-native deployments using AWS and EKS.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred experience with foundation-model integration, prompt engineering and evaluation, RAG architectures, LangChain, or LangGraph.
- Preferred familiarity with Datadog, Grafana, Conviva, and high-volume telemetry data.
- Preferred experience with Databricks, Spark, and Snowflake.
Benefits
- Hiring range is $117,500–$157,500 per year in Glendale, California, or $123,000–$165,000 per year in New York City.
- Full-time role with potential bonus and/or long-term incentive units, plus medical, financial, and other benefits.
Tech Stack
Apache SparkAWSDatabricksDatadogDockerFastAPIFlaskGrafanaMLflowPandasPythonPyTorchSnowflakeTensorFlow
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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.