Staff Software Engineer-Backend (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 were not just referring to the world of wizards dragons and superheroes or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBDs 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 whats 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.

• You will play a critical role in expanding and optimizing our data and reporting capabilities.
• This is a multifaceted role requiring expertise in backend service development streaming and batch services and operational excellence.
• Your responsibilities will include:
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers in the team.
• Design and develop the cloud based Backend and streaming services to efficiently and cost effectively address various data needs across the business.
• Build software across our data platform including stream or batch data processing storage and serving through various data integration.
• Think of new ways to help make our stream processing pipelines more scalable resilient and reliable and then work across our team to put your ideas into action.
• Help us stay ahead of the curve by working closely with technical architects developers our Product team to design systems which can scale elastically.
• Work closely with business stake holders to make data easily accessible and understandable to them.
• Ensure data quality by implementing reusable data quality frameworks.
• Work closely with various other teams to roll out new capabilities.
• 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
• Be responsible for cloud cost and improving efficiency.

• Bachelors degree in computer science or similar discipline . 9 13 years of experience in backend software engineering.
• You have a deep understanding of backend service technologies.
• Expertise in at least few programming languages Java Go Python or similar.
• Expertise in building and managing large volume stream or batch processing platform is a must.
• Proficiency with streaming platforms like Kafka or Kinesis or distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark or Flink.
• Expertise in SQL and NoSQL PostgreSQL DynamoDB Elasticsearch
• Demonstrated expertise in managing and optimizing Data Lakehouse environments with a preference for familiarity with Databricks.
• Expert with CI/CD pipelines preferably GitHub Actions Workflows.
• Extensive 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.
• Familiarity with search and analytics tools particularly OpenSearch
• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills.

• 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 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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