Senior Staff Data Engineer (Ad Tech Team - AWS experience required)
Warner Bros. Discovery3 months ago
Base Salary
$161k - $299k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain ingestion, ETL, and activation pipelines for multi-billion-event real-time and batch datasets.
- Optimize cloud-native data workflows for latency, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Modernize legacy advertising technology systems into lakehouse-based architectures using open table formats.
- Implement observability, data lineage, automation, and governance frameworks to improve resiliency and reduce technical debt.
- Partner with Data Science teams to operationalize models for forecasting, optimization, and personalization.
- Deliver low-latency, privacy-compliant data to ad servers, identity systems, and activation platforms.
- Act as a domain expert in distributed systems, streaming, and big data engineering.
- Set technical standards, mentor junior engineers, and elevate engineering practices across global teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; a PhD is preferred for advanced expertise in distributed systems or statistical optimization.
- 12+ years of experience designing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms with high-throughput pipelines.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Iceberg, Delta, or Hudi; and Spark, Flink, or Presto.
- Deep knowledge of Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub for low-latency ingestion and activation.
- Experience with automation, observability, governance, and enterprise-grade operational practices.
- Familiarity with advertising workflows including forecasting, yield optimization, identity, and campaign execution.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with data scientists, product and platform engineering teams, and mentor junior engineers.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
- Benefits include health insurance, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings, paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery is a global media company that produces and distributes film, television, streaming, sports, news, and games for consumers and distribution partners. Its portfolio includes Warner Bros. Pictures, HBO and Max, CNN, Discovery Channel, HGTV, and DC, with revenue from subscriptions, advertising, licensing, and theatrical releases. Formed in 2022 through the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, it is headquartered in New York City and trades on Nasdaq as WBD.