Senior Data Engineer: Cloud-Scale Pipelines & Lakehouse

Z1 Discovery Communications LLC; Silver Spring (MD); Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Retirement plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery in the United States is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to design and deliver data pipelines processing billions of ad events daily across our global ecosystem.

You will modernize legacy workflows into cloud-native lakehouse architectures, embed observability, and partner with Data Science to operationalize models for forecasting and personalization. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, streaming, and enterprise-grade data platforms, plus

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering or related field; PhD preferred for advanced expertise in distributed systems or statistical optimization.
• Data engineering expertise: 12+ years designing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms with high-throughput pipelines.
• Cloud & lakehouse architectures: Hands-on with AWS/GCP/Azure, open table formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi), and distributed compute (Spark, Flink, Presto).
• Streaming & real-time systems: Deep knowledge of Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub for low-latency ingestion and activation.
• Operational excellence: CI/CD, automation, observability, governance for enterprise data engineering.
• AdTech domain knowledge: Familiarity with advertising workflows including forecasting, yield optimization, identity and campaign execution.

Responsibilities

• High-Scale Data Pipeline Engineering: Design and maintain ingestion, ETL, and activation pipelines for real-time and batch processing of multi-billion events.
• Platform Modernization & Lakehouse Development: Modernize legacy ad-tech systems into lakehouse architectures for unified analytics and monetization.
• Cross-Functional Data Delivery: Partner with Data Science to operationalize ML models and ensure low-latency, privacy-compliant data delivery.
• Architectural Leadership & Mentorship: Serve as domain expert in distributed systems, streaming, and big data; mentor engineers and raise standards.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud architectures

Spark/Flink

Kafka

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

PhD preferred

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Iceberg

Delta Lake

Hudi

Spark

Flink

Presto

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery in the United States is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to design and deliver data pipelines processing billions of ad events daily across our global ecosystem.

You will modernize legacy workflows into cloud-native lakehouse architectures, embed observability, and partner with Data Science to operationalize models for forecasting and personalization. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, streaming, and enterprise-grade data platforms, plus