Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are…
When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…
From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
Staff Software Engineer-Backend with Data Engineering (Adtech Team)Bangalore
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.
Meet our team:
The Ad Tech group works on building state-of-the-art Ad technology platforms and services that power the Discovery + and other digital services offered by Warner Bros. Discovery globally. We focus on all aspects of streaming video: live and VOD pipelines, metadata transformation, ad tech, server-side ad insertion, CDN integrations, playback services, video player backends, and AI/ML-based personalization.
What You’ll Do:
You will play a critical role in expanding and optimizing our data and reporting capabilities. This is a multi-faceted role requiring expertise in backend service development, data engineering, and operational excellence. Your responsibilities will include:
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers in the team.
- Design and develop the Data pipelines to efficiently and cost effectively address various data needs across the business.
- Build software across our data platform, including stream or batch data processing, storage, and serving through various data integration.
- Think of new ways to help make our data pipelines more scalable, resilient, and reliable and then work across our team to put your ideas into action.
- Help us stay ahead of the curve by working closely with technical architects, developers, our Product team to design systems which can scale elastically.
- Work closely with business stake holders to make data easily accessible and understandable to them.
- Ensure data quality by implementing re-usable data quality frameworks.
- Work closely with various other teams to roll out new capabilities.
- Develop and enforce data engineering, security, data quality standards through automation.
- Participate in supporting platform 24X7.
- Be passionate about growing a team - hire and mentor engineers
- Be responsible for cloud cost and improving efficiency.
What to Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline
- 11-15 years of experience in software engineering and/or data engineering
- You have a deep understanding of backend service technologies and a proven track record in building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines.
- Expertise in at least few programming languages - Java, Go, Python or similar.
- Expertise in building and managing large volume data processing (both streaming and batch) platform is a must.
- Proficiency with streaming platforms like Kafka or Kinesis, and distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark or Flink.
- Expertise in SQL and No-SQL – PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
- Demonstrated expertise in managing and optimizing Data Lakehouse environments, with a preference for familiarity with Databricks.
- Expert with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions Workflows.
- Extensive experience with Microservice Architecture principles and implementations.
- Practical knowledge of containerization and orchestration platforms like Docker and EKS.
- Experience with cloud services, especially AWS, is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with search and analytics tools, particularly OpenSearch
- Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
What We Offer:
- A Great Place to work.
- Equal opportunity employer.
- Fast track growth opportunities.
How We Get Things Done…
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.
