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.
Staff Software Engineer – GVP QoE Platform – 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
Meet Our Team:
The Video Playback organization’s mission is to provide global, self-service, multi-tenant, turn key solutions for all WBD Streaming brands both at Server and Client side across Live linear, Live event & VOD stream types and wide array of device platforms serving all customers with seamless & smooth playback experience.
Our mission is to foster unified QoE analytics and drive data driven use cases by leveraging a robust multitenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze the video playback experience. We are obsessed with customer first mindset and providing them the excellent playback experience.
**Roles & Responsibilities: **
As a Staff Engineer, you will lead data platform and pipeline, data strategy, and data visualization-related efforts. You’re an engineer who not only understands how to use big data in answering complex business questions but also how to design semantic layers to best support self-service vehicles. You will manage projects from requirements gathering to planning to implementation of full-stack data solutions (platform/pipelines to data tables to visualizations). You will work closely with cross-functional partners to ensure that business logic is properly represented in the semantic layer and production environments, where it can be used by the wider Product Analytics team to drive business insights and strategy.
- You partner with Product stakeholders to understand business questions and build out advanced analytical solutions.
- 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 have expertise practicing infrastructure-as-code, data streaming pipeline, data lake management, Database, Analytics and Dashboarding.
- You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgment when choosing to build new vs extending existing ones
- You provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices, and have a track-record of applying these best practices to software that you have worked on
- You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist
- You make high impact decisions driving, what and how software is built
- You design and implement data models that support flexible querying and data visualization.
- You build frameworks that multiply the productivity of the team and are intuitive for other data teams to leverage.
- You participate in the creation and support of analytics development standards and best practices.
- You create systematic solutions for solving data anomalies: identifying, alerting, and root cause analysis.
- You identify and explore new opportunities through creative analytical and engineering methods.
What to Bring:
Bachelor's, Master's, or higher degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics.
9–13 years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Platform Engineering, or related domains.
Proven track record of architecting, scaling, and operating enterprise-grade data platforms, including real-time streaming pipelines, data lakes, data warehouses, and self-service analytics ecosystems.
Deep expertise in transforming complex, incomplete, and evolving data sources into trusted, governed, and business-ready datasets that support critical decision-making and advanced analytics.
Extensive experience designing, building, and optimizing large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines, workflow orchestration frameworks, and data products processing millions to billions of records.
Strong programming expertise in Python and/or Go, with solid knowledge of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, APIs, and data serialization formats.
Strong understanding of modern application architectures, including user interfaces, business logic, data persistence, caching strategies, and system integrations.
Expertise in data modeling, data architecture, and performance optimization across relational (PostgreSQL preferred) and NoSQL (MongoDB preferred) platforms.
Hands-on experience with modern data and streaming technologies including Spark, Kafka, Flink, Databricks, Snowflake, and cloud-native analytics services.
Advanced proficiency in semantic modeling, business intelligence, and analytics enablement using tools such as Looker, Tableau, or equivalent BI platforms.
Deep knowledge of dimensional modeling, data warehousing principles, analytics engineering best practices, and advanced SQL development across multiple database technologies.
Strong expertise in cloud-native infrastructure, containerization, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and reliability frameworks leveraging tools such as Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, OpenTelemetry, and related technologies.
Experience with enterprise analytics and data exploration platforms including Athena, Redshift, BigQuery, Splunk, and similar technologies.
Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals, statistical modeling, predictive analytics, and AI-driven decision-support systems.
Experience designing and building scalable data platforms that support the complete ML lifecycle, including feature engineering, experimentation, model training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
Hands-on experience with modern AI/ML ecosystems and platforms such as Databricks ML, Vertex AI, SageMaker, MLflow, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or equivalent technologies.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical architecture decisions, establish engineering best practices, and influence data strategy across multiple teams and business domains.
Proven success partnering with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, data-driven solutions.
Strong ability to navigate ambiguity, solve complex business and technical challenges, and drive execution with minimal direction.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of engineering excellence, operational rigor, and continuous improvement
Characteristics & Traits
- Naturally inquisitive, critical thinker, proactive problem-solver, and detail-oriented.
- Positive attitude and an open mind
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to act independently and responsibly
- Self-starter, comfortable initiating projects from design to execution with minimal supervision
- Ability to manage and balance multiple (and sometimes competing) priorities in a fast-paced, complex business environment and can manage time effectively to consistently meet deadlines
- Team player and relationship builder
What We Offer:
- A Great Place to work.
- Equal opportunity employer
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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