Senior Staff, Data Engineer

Warner Bros. Discovery is a global entertainment company with a vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands. The company supports creative and technology professionals globally, offering career-defining opportunities and benefits.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; PhD preferred for advanced expertise in distributed systems or statistical optimization.
• 8+ years of experience designing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms with high-throughput pipelines.
• Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, Azure, open table formats such as Iceberg, Delta, Hudi, and distributed compute frameworks like Spark, Flink, Presto.
• Deep knowledge of streaming and real-time systems including Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub.
• Skilled in CI/CD, automation, observability, and governance frameworks for enterprise-grade data engineering.
• Familiarity with advertising workflows including forecasting, yield optimization, identity, and campaign execution.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with data scientists, product, and platform engineering teams and mentor junior engineers.

High-Scale Data Pipeline Engineering:

• Design and maintain ingestion, ETL, and activation pipelines supporting real-time and batch processing of multi-billion event datasets.
• Optimize data workflows for latency, reliability, and scalability in cloud-native environments.

Platform Modernization & Lakehouse Development:

• Modernize legacy ad-tech systems into open, lakehouse-based architectures (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi) for unified analytics and monetization.
• Embed observability, data lineage, and automation frameworks to reduce technical debt and improve resiliency.

Cross-Functional Data Delivery:

• Partner with Data Science to operationalize ML models for forecasting, optimization, and personalization.
• Ensure downstream data delivery into ad servers, identity systems, and activation platforms is low-latency and privacy-compliant.

Architectural Leadership & Mentorship:

• Act as a domain expert in distributed systems, streaming, and big data engineering.
• Mentor junior engineers, share best practices, and elevate engineering standards across global teams.

The role is advertised as a hybrid work model combining remote and in-office work, subject to company policy and agreement with the Line Manager. Warner Bros. Discovery is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and provides accommodations for candidates with disabilities during recruitment processes.