Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

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. This team will support studios, sports, news and corporate as well. 

Roles & Responsibilities:  

As an Sr. 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 service 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 capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent collaboration and diplomacy skills. You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, data lake management, AI/ML Knowledge, and Analytics. In addition, you’ll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities. 

Your Role Accountabilities: 

• Main contributor to the data platform roadmap and making the right technical decisions. 

• Work with data engineers, data scientists, ML engineers and software engineers from other orgs to understand their requirements, build solutions and enforce best practices. 

• Innovate how ETLs and offline compute should work at WBD. 

• Set high standards, mentor, and coach other engineers on the team. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand changing requirements and incorporate them in the roadmap. 

• Drive the vision for big data query products and platforms. 

Qualifications & Experiences: 

• 5+ years of experience working with open-source systems like Hive, Spark, Presto etc. 

• 3+ years’ experience with AWS with knowledge of S3, EC2, IAM, Security, Lambda, Networking etc. 

• Experience with Hadoop (or similar) Ecosystem, S3, DynamoDB, MapReduce, Yarn, HDFS, Hive, Spark, Presto, Pig, HBase, Parquet 

• Strong skills in a scripting language (Python, Ruby, Bash) 

• Good understanding of SQL Engine and able to conduct advanced performance tuning. 

• Proficient in at least one of the SQL languages Proficient in at least one of the SQL languages (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Databricks) 

• Experience with workflow management tools (Airflow, Oozie, Azkaban, UC4) 

• Comfortable working directly with data and business partners to bridge business goals with data engineering. 

• Preferred to have experience of building and maintaining insurance related data pipeline for large organizations. 

• Ability to work on unusually complex technical problems and provide solutions that are highly innovative and ingenious. 

• Ability to provide technical documentation and project plans for technical staff members. 

• Excellent communication, presentation, and customer relationship skills. 

• Excellent organizational and time management skills to handle multiple tasks simultaneously 
   
  Preferred Experience: 

• Experience with Terraform, Git Actions is plus.