Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

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.

Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform Engineering 
 

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 Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team:

The Data Platform Engineering team within Data & Analytics builds the foundational pieces of our data platform, collecting, enriching, and presenting data for analysis.  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. This team will support studios, sports, news and corporate as well.
 

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Senior Software Engineer here you are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex data-driven challenges and automate those solutions. Within our organization, you’ll lead efforts aimed at scaling our existing data offerings and establish the technical strategy for how we can better equip engineers and leaders with Data Platform. You’ll build a deep understanding of our digital streaming services and use that knowledge, coupled with your engineering, infrastructure, data, and cloud knowledge, to optimize and evolve how we understand our technical ecosystem.

To be successful, you’ll need to be deeply technical and possess excellent collaboration skills. You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, microservice development, data lake management, monitoring, and supporting production systems. In addition, you’ll have strong data system knowledge
and troubleshooting abilities.

• Build robust data pipelines that deliver high data quality at scale using Kafka, Flink, and SQL

• Grow your ability to design, implement, and own critical features of a product used by millions of customers.

• Have a deep understanding of software data structures and algorithms.

• Be a self-starter that can independently solve complex engineering problems

• Maintain high quality coding standards for yourself and your team

• Design and deliver components of a complex distributed system

• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write

• Seek self-improvement and be adaptable to suggestions and feedback

• Hold yourself and your team to high standards while maintaining friendly, respectful relationships
   

What to Bring:

• BS degree in Computer Science, or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience

• 5+ years of professional development experience using languages such as Python, Java, C, C++, C#, Javascript, Typescript, Golang

• Passion for working with high scale data pipelines

• Some experience with AWS with knowledge of S3, EC2, IAM, Security, Lambda, Networking etc.

• Experience building and operating platforms with Spark, Spark SQL, Parquet and Iceberg, Gen AI tech stack, LLMs, Vector Databases.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Experience working with low-latency systems operating in a 24x7 environment

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.

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