The Senior Staff Data Engineer is accountable for designing and delivering data pipelines that process billions of ad events daily across WBD’s global ecosystem. This role sets technical standards for distributed data engineering, drives modernization of legacy workflows into modular cloud-native systems, and ensures mission-critical data is delivered reliably, securely, and cost-efficiently for monetization and decisioning.
Requirements
- Design and maintain ingestion, ETL, and activation pipelines supporting real-time and batch processing of multi-billion event datasets.
- Optimize data workflows for latency, reliability, and scalability in cloud-native environments.
- Modernize legacy ad-tech systems into open, lakehouse-based architectures (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi) for unified analytics and monetization.
- Embed observability, data lineage, and automation frameworks to reduce technical debt and improve resiliency.
- Partner with Data Science to operationalize ML models for forecasting, optimization, and personalization.
- Ensure downstream data delivery into ad servers, identity systems, and activation platforms is low-latency and privacy-compliant
- Act as a domain expert in distributed systems, streaming, and big data engineering.
- Mentor junior engineers, share best practices, and elevate engineering standards across global teams.
Benefits
- health insurance coverage
- employee wellness program
- life and disability insurance
- retirement savings plan
- paid holidays and sick time and vacation
- annual bonuses
- short- and long-term incentives
- program-specific awards
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