Staff Software Engineer - Data Engineering Adtech Team Bangalore

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 - Data Engineering (Adtech Team) Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the worlds 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 Discoverys 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 platform and reporting capabilities. You will work on the development of a scalable, high-impact, high volume data systems powering reporting and analytics for our advertising business. This is a multi-faceted role requiring expertise in backend service development, streaming and batch processing, and operational excellence. Your responsibilities will include:

• Design architecture and development of high-scale data pipelines and backend services for data processing and storage
• Work closely with product teams to understand data needs and translate them into reliable, performant systems.
• Design and implement batch and real-time processing pipelines using modern big data tools (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow).
• Drive data modeling best practices to ensure consistent, extensible data definitions across the organization.
• Ensure data quality, correctness, and completeness through robust monitoring, validation, and testing strategies.
• Mentor junior engineers, foster engineering excellence, and help shape technical direction across the broader organization.
• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure systems are cost-efficient, observable, and resilient at scale.
• 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
  
  

What To Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline
• 11 - 15 years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in data-intensive systems
• Deep experience with distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Beam, Flink).
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go.
• Strong understanding of data modelling, ETL best practices, and big data architecture.
• Experience building reporting pipelines or systems that support forecasting, attribution, reach/frequency, or audience measurement.
• Exposure to ML-based forecasting systems or time-series modelling.
• Expertise in building and managing large volume stream or batch processing platform is a must.
• Experience working with data warehousing solutions like Databricks.
• Practical knowledge of with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions Workflows.
• 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.
• 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 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 accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

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