Job Description

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 Data Engineer (Hyderabad, India)
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 & Audience Platform (DAP) organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and data products vital to WBD. This platform will host multiple data products, including but not limited to, Subscription, Content, and Product Analytics, Personalization and Recommendation, Marketing & Ad-Sales enablement. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to strategize content, subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely, informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
Roles & Responsibilities
We are looking for a highly motivated Sr Data Engineer to build reliable and scalable engineering solution that empowers various use cases such as data enrichment, classifications and deep analytics. You will be building a solution in the cloud - handles both streaming and batch data processing, capable of solving big data initiatives by applying state-of-the-art AI technology.
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.

• 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 scientists, data analysts and business stake holders to make data easily accessible and understandable to them.
• Develop and enforce data engineering, security, data quality standards through automation and applied AI.
• Participate in supporting platform 24X7.
• 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
• 5+ 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 - Scala, Python, Java or similar.
• Expertise in distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Flink or similar.
• Expertise in building and managing large volume data processing (both streaming and batch) platform is a must.
• Experience in working with data warehousing solutions such as Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, etc.
• Strong understanding of data modelling, ETL best practices, and big data architecture.
• Practical knowledge with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions Workflows.
• Cloud (AWS) experience is preferred
• Excellent communicator, capable of influencing both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience building solutions with one or more of the following AI/ML concepts: classification/inference/embedding models, agents, RAG, vector search is a plus.
• Background in direct to consumer digital business is preferred

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 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 a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. 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 for instructions to submit your request.

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