Senior AdTech Software Engineer - Cloud-Native Data & APIs

Warner Bros. Discovery; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 244,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays and sick time

Wellness program

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in New York to design and deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions powering our advertising technology stack.

You will develop services for ad-serving, campaign management, and identity systems, and build APIs for third-party AdTech partners and data providers. This role emphasizes data engineering, ETL pipelines, and real-time processing with Spark and Kafka, while modernizing legacy platforms.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Engineering Expertise: 5+ years in software engineering, with exposure to AdTech or large-scale distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Scala, or Python; cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure); SQL/NoSQL; Spark and Kafka.
• AdTech domain knowledge: familiarity with advertising workflows including forecasting, yield optimization, identity, and campaign execution.
• Collaboration & mentorship: ability to partner with data scientists, product, and platform engineering, while mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Software Development & Integration: Build and maintain services for ad-serving, campaign management, and identity systems.
• Develop APIs and integrations with third-party AdTech partners and data providers.

Skills

Java

Scala

Python

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

SQL

NoSQL databases

Big data tools (Spark)

Big data tools (Kafka)

AdTech domain knowledge

Collaboration & mentorship

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in New York to design and deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions powering our advertising technology stack.

You will develop services for ad-serving, campaign management, and identity systems, and build APIs for third-party AdTech partners and data providers. This role emphasizes data engineering, ETL pipelines, and real-time processing with Spark and Kafka, while modernizing legacy platforms.