Senior Data Engineer - Lead Real-Time Pipelines & Lakehouse

Z1 Discovery Communications LLC; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays

Paid sick time

Paid vacation

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to design and deliver data pipelines processing billions of ad events daily. You will set technical standards, modernize legacy workflows, and ensure secure, cost-efficient data delivery for monetization and decisioning.

You will lead architectural direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Data Science to operationalize ML models, while ensuring privacy-compliant data delivery to ad servers and activation platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• PhD preferred for advanced expertise in distributed systems or statistical optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain high-scale data pipelines for real-time and batch processing of multi-billion datasets.
• Modernize legacy ad-tech systems into lakehouse architectures for analytics and monetization.
• Partner with Data Science to operationalize ML models for forecasting and personalization.
• Mentor junior engineers and elevate engineering standards across global teams.

Skills

12+ years experience

Distributed systems

Streaming platforms

Cloud architectures

Lakehouse tech

CI/CD & observability

AdTech knowledge

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree

PhD preferred

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Spark

Flink

Presto

Iceberg

Delta Lake

Hudi

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to design and deliver data pipelines processing billions of ad events daily. You will set technical standards, modernize legacy workflows, and ensure secure, cost-efficient data delivery for monetization and decisioning.

You will lead architectural direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Data Science to operationalize ML models, while ensuring privacy-compliant data delivery to ad servers and activation platforms.