Senior Software Engineer Kafka AMS Team, Bangalore

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Senior Software Engineer - (Asynchronous Messaging Services 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 Medias premium entertainment sports and news assets with Warner Bros Discoverys leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information please visit

About the Team

Our team serves as the Center of Excellence for asynchronous messaging across the organization. We design build and evolve a global event streaming platform that enables teams to build reliable scalable event-driven systems.

We treat messaging as a platform product not just infrastructure. Our mission is to make event-driven architecture secure scalable and easy to adopt for engineering teams worldwide.

We build and operate a Kafka-as-a-Service platform on Confluent Cloud supporting high-throughput telemetry pipelines business-critical event streams and large-scale data processing systems.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed systems platform engineering and cloud automation to help evolve our messaging platform and guide the adoption of event-driven architecture across the organization.

Meet Our Team

We are a team of platform engineers specializing in distributed asynchronous messaging systems. Our engineers range from Junior to Staff level and work together to build reliable messaging infrastructure that powers critical business systems.

What defines our team:

• We build platform capabilities not just infrastructure.

• We emphasize automation reliability and self-service developer experiences.

• We design systems for global scale high throughput and fault tolerance.

• We establish messaging standards and architectural patterns used across the company.

• We collaborate closely with application teams to help them adopt event-driven systems effectively.

As a Senior Engineer you will play a key role in shaping the platform influencing architectural decisions and mentoring other engineers on distributed systems and messaging best practices.

What Youll Do

Platform Architecture & Development

• Design and evolve our Kafka-as-a-Service platform built on Confluent Cloud.

• Architect scalable secure and resilient Kafka deployments across multiple regions.

• Develop platform automation and tooling using Python Java or Go.

• Design and implement Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform on AWS.

• Improve platform capabilities including observability reliability scalability and operational automation.

Messaging Architecture & Enablement

• Guide engineering teams in designing event-driven architectures.

• Provide best practices for:

  • Topic design and partitioning strategies

  • Consumer scaling and performance optimization

  • Schema governance and evolution

  • Event versioning strategies

• Design and implement self-service platform capabilities for internal engineering teams.

Operational Excellence

• Improve platform reliability monitoring and incident response processes.

• Participate in and help lead on-call rotations and incident resolution.

• Drive automation that reduces operational overhead and improves platform resilience.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).

• 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience.

• Strong programming experience in Python Java or Go.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka administration or operations (Confluent Cloud preferred).

• Experience designing or operating distributed systems in production.

• Strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Experience building Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or similar tools.

• Experience operating and troubleshooting production systems at scale.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.

Preferred Experience

Experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Operating Kafka at scale including:

  • Topic configuration and partition strategies

  • Consumer group scaling

  • Schema Registry management

  • Multi-region replication and disaster recovery

• Event-driven architecture and streaming frameworks (e.g. Kafka Streams).

• Kubernetes-based distributed systems.

• High-throughput low-latency systems.

• Observability platforms (metrics tracing logging).

• Experience working in globally distributed engineering teams.

What Makes You Successful in This Role

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Take ownership of complex technical problems and drive them to resolution.

• Design systems with scalability reliability and operational simplicity in mind.

• Write high-quality maintainable and well-tested code.

• Mentor engineers and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.

• Proactively identify improvements in architecture tooling and platform capabilities.

• Balance long-term architectural improvements with pragmatic delivery.

• Communicate technical concepts clearly across teams.

• Demonstrate strong operational ownership for systems running in production.

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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