Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering ( Adtech Team),Bangalore

451 Discovery Communications India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great place to work

Fast track growth opportunities

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery in Bangalore seeks an experienced Senior Software Engineer to expand and optimize data engineering capabilities for advertising analytics.

You will design scalable data pipelines, work on both streaming and batch processing, and collaborate with product teams to deliver high-quality reporting systems. The role requires 5-8 years in data-intensive software engineering, strong background in Spark/Flink, and proficiency in Java or Python.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline.
• 5-8 years of experience in software engineering with data-intensive systems.
• Deep experience with distributed data processing frameworks like Spark and Flink.
• Proficiency in Java or Python and experience with data modeling and ETL.

Responsibilities

• Design architecture and develop high-scale data pipelines and backend services for forecasting and analytics.
• Collaborate with product teams to translate reporting needs into reliable systems.
• Build batch and real-time processing pipelines usingSpark, Flink, Kafka, and Airflow.
• Mentor engineers and drive data engineering standards and best practices.
• Ensure data quality, monitoring, and security across data platforms.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Python

Java

Big data

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Tools

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Databricks

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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 Engineering (Adtech Team), Bangalore

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 Ad Tech group works on building state-of-the-art Ad technology platforms and services that power the Discovery + and other digital services offered by Warner Bros. Discovery globally. We focus on all aspects of streaming video: live and VOD pipelines, metadata transformation, ad tech, server-side ad insertion, CDN integrations, playback services, video player backends, and AI/ML-based personalization.

What You’ll Do:

You will play a critical role in expanding and optimizing our data and reporting capabilities. You will work on the development of a scalable, high-impact data systems powering reporting and analytics for our advertising business. This is a multi-faceted role requiring expertise in backend service development, streaming and batch services, and operational excellence.

• Design architecture and development of high-scale data pipelines and backend services for forecasting, reach reports, and advertiser analytics.
• Work closely with product teams to understand reporting needs and translate them into reliable, performant systems.
• Design and implement batch and real-time processing pipelines using modern big data tools (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow).
• Drive data modeling best practices to ensure consistent, extensible data definitions across the organization.
• Ensure data quality, correctness, and completeness through robust monitoring, validation, and testing strategies.
• Mentor junior engineers, foster engineering excellence, and help shape technical direction across the broader organization.
• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure systems are cost-efficient, observable, and resilient at scale.
• 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

What to Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline
• 5 - 8 years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in data-intensive systems
• Deep experience with distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., AWS Kinesis, Flink).
• Proficiency in two or more programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go.
• Strong understanding of data modelling, ETL best practices, and big data architecture.
• Experience building reporting pipelines or systems that support forecasting, attribution, reach/frequency, or audience measurement.
• Exposure to ML-based forecasting systems or time-series modelling.
• Expertise in building and managing large volume stream or batch processing platform is a must.
• Experience working with data warehousing solutions like Databricks.
• Practical knowledge of with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions Workflows.
• 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.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

What We Offer:

• A Great Place to work.
• Equal opportunity employer.
• Fast track growth opportunities.

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.

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 WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.