Senior Data Engineer: Real-Time, Cloud-Native Pipelines

Warner Bros. Discovery; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 297,366 - 424,809; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Life and accident insurance

HBO Max access

Employee Support Program

Training platform

Parking spaces

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer in Warsaw. This role involves designing and delivering data pipelines processing billions of events daily, setting technical standards for distributed data engineering, and driving modernization of legacy workflows into modular cloud-native systems.

The ideal candidate will have a robust background in data engineering, data platforms, and a strong grasp of cloud and lakehouse architectures. The position supports hybrid work and offers numerous benefits including private medical care, life insurance, and access to HBO Max.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms with high-throughput pipelines.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS/GCP/Azure, and distributed compute.
• Deep knowledge of Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub for low-latency ingestion.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain ingestion, ETL, and activation pipelines.
• Optimize data workflows for latency, reliability, and scalability.
• Modernize legacy ad-tech systems into open lakehouse-based architectures.

Skills

Data Engineering Expertise

Cloud & Lakehouse Architectures

Streaming & Real‑Time Systems

Operational Excellence

AdTech Domain Knowledge

Collaboration & Mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

PhD preferred for advanced expertise

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Pub/Sub

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer in Warsaw. This role involves designing and delivering data pipelines processing billions of events daily, setting technical standards for distributed data engineering, and driving modernization of legacy workflows into modular cloud-native systems.

The ideal candidate will have a robust background in data engineering, data platforms, and a strong grasp of cloud and lakehouse architectures. The position supports hybrid work and offers numerous benefits including private medical care, life insurance, and access to HBO Max.