Senior Staff Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines & Lakehouse

Warner Bros. Discovery; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 161,070 - 299,130; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays and sick time

Vacation

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is looking for a Senior Staff Data Engineer to design and deliver high-scale data pipelines, optimizing real-time data processing and modernizing legacy ad-tech systems into cloud-native architectures.

With over 12 years of experience, the ideal candidate will contribute significantly to cross-functional data delivery, mentorship of junior engineers, and ensuring data integrity and efficiency across platforms. A competitive salary range of $161,070 - $299,130 per year is offered, alongside comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience designing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Hands-on expertise with cloud services and open table formats.
• Deep knowledge of low-latency streaming systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain data pipelines for real-time and batch processing.
• Modernize legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.
• Collaborate with Data Science to operationalize ML models.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Data Engineering

Distributed Systems

Streaming Systems

Collaboration

Mentorship

Operational Excellence

AdTech Knowledge

Education

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

PhD preferred

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kafka

CI/CD

Spark

Flink

Presto

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery is looking for a Senior Staff Data Engineer to design and deliver high-scale data pipelines, optimizing real-time data processing and modernizing legacy ad-tech systems into cloud-native architectures.

With over 12 years of experience, the ideal candidate will contribute significantly to cross-functional data delivery, mentorship of junior engineers, and ensuring data integrity and efficiency across platforms. A competitive salary range of $161,070 - $299,130 per year is offered, alongside comprehensive benefits.