Software Engineer II

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Software Engineer II - Data Platform (Data & Analytics team)

About Warner Bros. Discovery: 

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. 

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com. 

Meet our Team:  

The Data & Analytics organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and data products vital to WBD, including flagship streaming product Max and non-streaming products such as Films Group, Sports, News and overall WBD eco-system.  Our mission is to foster unified analytics and drive data-driven use cases by leveraging a robust multi-tenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely, informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape. This team will support studios, sports, news and corporate as well. 

As a member of the Tools and Frameworks team you will be helping to develop tools that help our community of developers save time and energy by streamlining engineering processes. This will involve developing and maintaining web applications, CLIs and APIs that power platform automations for teams across all of WBDs portfolio of brands.

Roles & Responsibilities:  

• As a Software Engineer - II here you are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex data-driven challenges and automate those solutions.
• Within our organization, you’ll lead efforts aimed at scaling our existing data offerings and establish the technical strategy for how we can better equip engineers and leaders with Data Platform.
• You’ll build a deep understanding of our digital streaming service and use that knowledge, coupled with your engineering, infrastructure, data, and cloud knowledge, to optimize and evolve how we understand our technical ecosystem. 
• To be successful, you’ll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent collaboration and diplomacy skills.
• You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, data lake management, AI/ML Knowledge, and Analytics. In addition, you’ll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities. 

What to Bring:

• Build data pipelines across our entire cutting-edge data platform, including event driven and batch data processing, storage, and serving through various data integration techniques such as APIs, Lambda, File Feeds etc. 
• Work closely with data architects, stream processing specialists, API developers, our DevOps team, and analysts to design systems which can scale elastically. 
• Work closely with data analysts and business stake holders to make data easily accessible and understandable to them. 
• Ensure data quality by implementing re-usable data quality frameworks. 
• Work closely with various other data engineering teams to roll out new capabilities. 
• Work closely with AI/ML team to operationalize and utilize models for business needs. 
• Develop and enforce data engineering, security, data quality standards through automation. 
• Participate in on-call rotations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline. 
• 3 - 5 years of experience in software and data engineering 
• Ability and willingness to learn any modern technologies and apply them at work