Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform, Hyderabad

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Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform Team) - Hyderabad, India.

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

• Has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable data systems that have been successfully shipped to production.

• Drives best practices and sets standards for the team in areas like data modeling, pipeline architecture, and system design.

• Is a key influencer in the team's strategy and contributes significantly to the team planning.

• Shows good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.

• Is a result-driven creative thinker who drives innovation and produces delightful experiences for our data consumers and internal customers.

• Is an advocate for data-driven decision-making, has an insatiable curiosity, and loves to invent and innovate to solve difficult problems.

• Has a strong point of view but remains open-minded.

• Take ownership of their work and consistently deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

• You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.

• You play a leading role in designing and developing major data infrastructure components, involving yourself and other engineers.

• You are a key influencer in your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.

• You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.

• You troubleshoot production issues by reviewing logs, metrics, data pipelines, and system health to pinpoint specific problems and then resolve them. You identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design.

• Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices for data engineering.

• You propose and create best practices proactively where none exist.

• You make high-impact decisions driving how and what data systems get built.

• You mentor junior engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team.

• Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on the engineers around you.

• Proficient in Python and/or Scala/Java with 5-9 years of total experience in data engineering or related fields.

• Strong experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Flink, or similar technologies.

• Deep understanding of data pipeline orchestration tools like Apache Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.

• Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) including services like S3, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, or Snowflake.

• Hands-on experience with real-time streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Kinesis.

• Experience with data lake/lakehouse architectures and formats like Parquet, Avro, Delta Lake, or Iceberg.

• Strong understanding of SQL and database technologies including PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases like DynamoDB or Cassandra.

• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) in data engineering contexts.

• Experience building agentic AI systems (multi-step workflows, tool routing, planning, memory patterns, supervision/fallback strategies).

• Experience with AWS Bedrock and/or SageMaker (or equivalent managed ML/GenAI platforms) and deployment patterns for scalable inference.

• Experience with evaluation frameworks and approaches (golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, human-in-the-loop review, red teaming).

• Experience fine-tuning models (e.g., LoRA/QLoRA/DoRA) and/or working with SLMs, embeddings, and retrieval systems.

• Experience with developer productivity tooling such as GitHub Copilot/Cursor/Claude and Claude Code, paired with strong SDLC controls.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Ability to implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or Datadog.

• Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, and data warehouse design principles.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (Git).

• A Great Place to work.

• Equal opportunity employer

• Fast track growth opportunities