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Senior Software Engineer - (Asynchronous Messaging Services Team), Bangalore
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 Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com
About the Team
Our team serves as the Center of Excellence for asynchronous messaging across the organization. We design, build, and evolve a global event streaming platform that enables teams to build reliable, scalable, event-driven systems.
We treat messaging as a platform product, not just infrastructure. Our mission is to make event-driven architecture secure, scalable, and easy to adopt for engineering teams worldwide.
We build and operate a Kafka-as-a-Service platform on Confluent Cloud, supporting high-throughput telemetry pipelines, business-critical event streams, and large-scale data processing systems.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed systems, platform engineering, and cloud automation to help evolve our messaging platform and guide the adoption of event-driven architecture across the organization.
Meet Our Team
We are a team of platform engineers specializing in distributed asynchronous messaging systems. Our engineers range from Junior to Staff level and work together to build reliable messaging infrastructure that powers critical business systems.
What defines our team:
- We build platform capabilities, not just infrastructure.
- We emphasize automation, reliability, and self-service developer experiences.
- We design systems for global scale, high throughput, and fault tolerance.
- We establish messaging standards and architectural patterns used across the company.
- We collaborate closely with application teams to help them adopt event-driven systems effectively.
As a Senior Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the platform, influencing architectural decisions, and mentoring other engineers on distributed systems and messaging best practices.
What You’ll Do
Platform Architecture & Development
- Design and evolve our Kafka-as-a-Service platform built on Confluent Cloud.
- Architect scalable, secure, and resilient Kafka deployments across multiple regions.
- Develop platform automation and tooling using Python, Java, or Go.
- Design and implement Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform on AWS.
- Improve platform capabilities including observability, reliability, scalability, and operational automation.
Messaging Architecture & Enablement
Guide engineering teams in designing event-driven architectures.
Provide best practices for:
- Topic design and partitioning strategies
- Consumer scaling and performance optimization
- Schema governance and evolution
- Event versioning strategies
Design and implement self-service platform capabilities for internal engineering teams.
Operational Excellence
- Improve platform reliability, monitoring, and incident response processes.
- Participate in and help lead on-call rotations and incident resolution.
- Drive automation that reduces operational overhead and improves platform resilience.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong programming experience in Python, Java, or Go.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka administration or operations (Confluent Cloud preferred).
- Experience designing or operating distributed systems in production.
- Strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or similar tools.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting production systems at scale.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
Preferred Experience
Experience in one or more of the following areas:
Operating Kafka at scale, including:
- Topic configuration and partition strategies
- Consumer group scaling
- Schema Registry management
- Multi-region replication and disaster recovery
Event-driven architecture and streaming frameworks (e.g., Kafka Streams).
Kubernetes-based distributed systems.
High-throughput, low-latency systems.
Observability platforms (metrics, tracing, logging).
Experience working in globally distributed engineering teams.
What Makes You Successful in This Role
You will thrive in this role if you:
- Take ownership of complex technical problems and drive them to resolution.
- Design systems with scalability, reliability, and operational simplicity in mind.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.
- Proactively identify improvements in architecture, tooling, and platform capabilities.
- Balance long-term architectural improvements with pragmatic delivery.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly across teams.
- Demonstrate strong operational ownership for systems running in production.
How We Get Things Done…
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
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