Senior Data Engineer

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • Data Analyst

Job Summary

Job Description

Warner Bros. Discovery seeks a highly motivated Senior Data Engineer to build a cutting-edge data platform for various data-driven use cases. This includes developing solutions for streaming and batch data processing, working with large-scale database systems (OLAP and OLTP), and utilizing frameworks like Apache Spark and Kafka. Responsibilities involve mentoring junior engineers, owning projects, collaborating with multiple teams, building scalable APIs, performing data analytics, ensuring data quality, enforcing data engineering standards, supporting production systems, and managing cloud costs. The ideal candidate will have expertise in big data processing, cloud technologies (AWS preferred), and CI/CD pipelines.
Must have:
  • 7+ years software/data engineering experience
  • Expertise in Spark, Flink, Kafka, Kinesis
  • SQL & NoSQL database experience
  • OLAP databases (Snowflake, Redshift)
  • Cloud (AWS) experience & Terraform
  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
Good to have:
  • Experience with Databricks, Cosmos DB, EMR
  • Apache Airflow, Druid experience
  • Go, Python, or Java programming skills

Job Details

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.

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 Data & Analytics organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and data products vital to WBD, including flagship streaming product Max and non-streaming products such as Films Group, Sports, News and overall WBD eco-system. Our mission is to foster unified analytics and drive data-driven use cases by leveraging a robust multi-tenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely, informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

As a member of the Tools and Frameworks team you will be helping to develop tools that help our community of developers save time and energy by streamlining engineering processes. As a senior member of the team you will be able to help shape the future of the platform and the way we enable teams across all of WBD to build better applications and experiences faster.

Roles & Responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated Sr Data Engineer to build a state-of-the-art data platform to solve various data-driven use cases across the organization. This platform will host multiple data products, including but not limited to, Subscription, Content, and Product Analytics, Personalization and Recommendation, Marketing and Ad-Sales enablement. You will be building a solution in the cloud that handles both streaming and batch data processing, capable of solving any big data initiatives in scope now or in the future.

This individual will bring in his/her expertise in a wide variety of big data processing frameworks (both open source and proprietary), large scale database systems (OLAP and OLTP), Batch & stream data processing.
 

  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior data engineers in the team.
  • Ability to independently own and execute projects and tasks.
  • Participate in projects that involve collaborating with multiple teams.
  • Build software across our entire cutting-edge data platform, including event driven data processing, storage, and serving through scalable and highly available APIs, with cutting-edge technologies.
  • Change how we think, act, and utilize our data by performing exploratory and quantitative analytics, data mining, and discovery.
  • Work closely with data analysts and business stake holders to make data easily accessible and understandable to them.
  • Ensure data quality by implementing re-usable data quality frameworks.
  • Develop and enforce data engineering, security, data quality standards through automation.
  • Have a strong background in supporting production systems and leading incident response
  • Be responsible for cloud cost and improving efficiency.
  • Contributing back to engineering community by writing/publishing blogs, articles, or papers in respected engineering conferences

     

What To Bring
 

  • Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline
  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering and/or data engineering
  • Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and apply them at work to stay ahead of the curve.
  • Expertise in at least a few programming languages – Go, Python, Java or similar.
  • Expertise in distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Flink or similar.
  • Experience in working with Data platforms such as Databricks, Cosmos DB, EMR (Databricks is huge plus).
  • Expertise in building and managing large volume data processing (both streaming and batch) platform is a must.
  • Expertise in stream processing systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar or Similar
  • Expertise in SQL and No-SQL – Apache Cassandra, DynamoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Expertise in OLAP databases such as Snowflake or Redshift.
  • Experience with variety of data Tools & frameworks (example: Apache Airflow, Druid) will be a huge plus.
  • Expert with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions Workflows.
  • Cloud (AWS) experience is preferred and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

     

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 and you require adjustments or accommodation to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

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, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status 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.

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