Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform Team, Hyderabad

451 Discovery Communications India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great place to work

Equal opportunity employer

Fast track growth opportunities

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Data and Audience Platform team in Hyderabad. You’ll shape the technical direction of large-scale data pipelines and infrastructure powering our data and AI capabilities.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep coding skills, experience building production data platforms, and mentoring engineers while collaborating with data science and ML teams to bring models into production.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building scalable data platforms.
• Proven track record shipping production-grade data platforms at scale.
• Experience enabling ML/AI in production and working with data science teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture and design of large-scale data platform systems — pipelines, data lakes, and serving infrastructure that process billions of events.
• Build the foundations that power AI and ML: feature platforms, training data pipelines, and model-serving infrastructure.
• Partner with data science and ML teams to productionize models and enable AI/GenAI-powered capabilities on top of the platform.
• Set technical standards and best practices in data modeling, system design, reliability, and applied AI.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical strategy and decisions beyond your immediate team.

Skills

10+ years experience

Large-scale data platforms

Python/Scala/Java

Spark/Flink/Kafka

AWS/GCP

ML/AI in production

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Data pipelines

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.

Staff Software Engineer (Data & Audience Platform Team), Hyderabad

About Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery is a premier global media and entertainment company, offering 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 Data and Audience Platform team sits within the Data & Analytics organization in WBD's Global Tech division. We build the data platform behind our streaming services and content businesses - the pipelines, data lakes, and serving infrastructure that turn billions of events into audience insights, personalization, and intelligent products. We're growing our presence in India and looking for a Staff Engineer to help shape the next generation of our platform, where data engineering and applied AI come together.

Role Overview

As a Staff Engineer on the Data and Audience Platform, you'll set technical direction for the systems that power both our data and our intelligence layers. You'll work on core data platform projects — building scalable, reliable infrastructure — while also enabling the ML and AI capabilities that run on top of it. This is a hands‑on, high‑leverage role: you'll architect systems, write code, and raise the engineering bar across the org.

What You'll Do

Drive the architecture and design of large-scale data platform systems — pipelines, data lakes, and serving infrastructure that process billions of events.

Build the foundations that power AI and ML: feature platforms, training data pipelines, and model‑serving infrastructure.

Partner with data science and ML teams to productionize models and enable AI/GenAI‑powered capabilities on top of the platform.

Set technical standards and best practices in data modeling, system design, reliability, and applied AI.

Mentor engineers and influence technical strategy and decisions beyond your immediate team.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, building and maintaining scalable software systems.
• Extensive experience designing and shipping production‑grade, large‑scale data platforms.
• Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Scala, or Java) and deep knowledge of distributed data processing (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka).
• Hands‑on experience with cloud data infrastructure (AWS/GCP, data lakes, warehouses).
• Practical experience enabling ML/AI in production - feature pipelines, model serving, or GenAI/LLM‑based systems.
• A track record of technical leadership: setting direction, driving cross‑team initiatives, and mentoring engineers.
• Nice to Have Experience with real‑time/streaming systems at scale.
• Familiarity with MLOps tooling and modern AI/LLM frameworks.
• Background in media, streaming, or other high‑volume consumer platforms.

What We Offer

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 www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ 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.

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.