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 Team) - 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 Platform team at Warner Bros. Discovery powers data-driven experiences across global products like Max, Discovery+, Sports, Studios, and News. The team builds and operates a scalable, multi-tenant data ecosystem that enables analytics, real-time insights, and machine learning use cases across the organization. Positioned at the core of the data journey, the team is responsible for ingesting, processing, and transforming large volumes of client and server-side data into reliable and high-quality datasets. Operating at the intersection of data and platform engineering, the team focuses on building robust pipelines, ensuring data quality and governance, and driving innovation in real-time processing, observability, and modern data infrastructure. The team collaborates closely with product, analytics, and engineering stakeholders to enable data-driven decision-making at scale.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable data systems that have been successfully shipped to production.
Drives best practices and sets standards for the team in areas like data modeling, pipeline architecture, and system design.
Is a key influencer in the team's strategy and contributes significantly to the team planning.
Shows good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
Is a result-driven creative thinker who drives innovation and produces delightful experiences for our data consumers and internal customers.
Is an advocate for data-driven decision-making, has an insatiable curiosity, and loves to invent and innovate to solve difficult problems.
Has a strong point of view but remains open-minded.
Take ownership of their work and consistently deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.
You play a leading role in designing and developing major data infrastructure components, involving yourself and other engineers.
You are a key influencer in your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.
You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
You troubleshoot production issues by reviewing logs, metrics, data pipelines, and system health to pinpoint specific problems and then resolve them. You identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design.
Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices for data engineering.
You propose and create best practices proactively where none exist.
You make high-impact decisions driving how and what data systems get built.
You mentor junior engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team.
Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on the engineers around you.
What to Bring:
Proficient in Python and/or Scala/Java with 5-9 years of total experience in data engineering or related fields.
Strong experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Flink, or similar technologies.
Deep understanding of data pipeline orchestration tools like Apache Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) including services like S3, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, or Snowflake.
Hands-on experience with real-time streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Kinesis.
Experience with data lake/lakehouse architectures and formats like Parquet, Avro, Delta Lake, or Iceberg.
Strong understanding of SQL and database technologies including PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases like DynamoDB or Cassandra.
Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) in data engineering contexts.
Experience building agentic AI systems (multi-step workflows, tool routing, planning, memory patterns, supervision/fallback strategies).
Experience with AWS Bedrock and/or SageMaker (or equivalent managed ML/GenAI platforms) and deployment patterns for scalable inference.
Experience with evaluation frameworks and approaches (golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, human-in-the-loop review, red teaming).
Experience fine-tuning models (e.g., LoRA/QLoRA/DoRA) and/or working with SLMs, embeddings, and retrieval systems.
Experience with developer productivity tooling such as GitHub Copilot/Cursor/Claude and Claude Code, paired with strong SDLC controls.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
Ability to implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or Datadog.
Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, and data warehouse design principles.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).
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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