Senior Staff Data Engineer (Ad Tech Team – AWS experience required)

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of. This is a Senior Staff Data Engineer position, accountable for designing and delivering data pipelines that process billions of ad events daily across WBD’s global ecosystem.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 12+ years of experience designing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms with high-throughput pipelines
• Cloud & Lakehouse Architectures: Hands-on expertise with AWS/GCP/Azure, open table formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi), and distributed compute (Spark, Flink, Presto)
• Streaming & Real-Time Systems: Deep knowledge of Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub for powering low-latency ingestion and activation
• Operational Excellence: Skilled in CI/CD, automation, observability, and governance frameworks for enterprise-grade data engineering
• AdTech Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with advertising workflows including forecasting, yield optimization, identity, and campaign execution
• Collaboration & Mentorship: Demonstrated ability to partner with data scientists, product, and platform engineering, while mentoring junior engineers

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Employee wellness program
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays and sick time and vacation