Storytelling is, and will always be, the heart of what we do at Skydance.

Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.

Here, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day.

If you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!

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Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering - Java & Flink ( Adtech 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 Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. 

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

Meet our team: 

The Ad Tech group works on building state-of-the-art Ad technology platforms and services that power the Discovery + and other digital services offered by Warner Bros. Discovery globally. We focus on all aspects of streaming video: live and VOD pipelines, metadata transformation, ad tech, server-side ad insertion, CDN integrations, playback services, video player backends, and AI/ML-based personalization. 

What You’ll Do: 

You will play a critical role in expanding and optimizing our data and reporting capabilities. You will work on the development of a scalable, high-impact data systems powering reporting and analytics for our advertising business This is a multi-faceted role requiring expertise in backend service development, streaming and batch services, and operational excellence. Your responsibilities will include: 

• Design architecture and development of high-scale data pipelines and backend services for forecasting, reach reports, and advertiser analytics. 

• Work closely with product teams to understand reporting needs and translate them into reliable, performant systems. 

• Design and implement batch and real-time processing pipelines using modern big data tools (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow). 

• Drive data modeling best practices to ensure consistent, extensible data definitions across the organization. 

•  Ensure data quality, correctness, and completeness through robust monitoring, validation, and testing strategies. 

• Mentor junior engineers, foster engineering excellence, and help shape technical direction across the broader organization. 

• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure systems are cost-efficient, observable, and resilient at scale. 

• Develop and enforce data engineering, security, data quality standards through automation.  

• Participate in supporting platform 24X7.  

• Be passionate about growing a team - hire and mentor engineers 

What to Bring: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline 

• 5 - 8 years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in data-intensive systems 

• Deep experience with distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., AWS Kinesis, Flink). 

• Proficiency in two or more programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go. 

• Strong understanding of data modelling, ETL best practices, and big data architecture. 

•  Experience building reporting pipelines or systems that support forecasting, attribution, reach/frequency, or audience measurement. 

• Exposure to ML-based forecasting systems or time-series modelling. 

• Expertise in building and managing large volume stream or batch processing platform is a must.  

• Experience working with data warehousing solutions like Databricks. 

• Practical knowledge of with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions Workflows. 

• Experience with Microservice Architecture principles and implementations. 

• Practical knowledge of containerization and orchestration platforms like Docker and EKS. 

• Experience with cloud services, especially AWS, is highly desirable. 

• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. 

What We Offer: 

• A Great Place to work. 

• Equal opportunity employer. 

• Fast track growth opportunities. 

About Skydance

Skydance is a next-generation global media and entertainment company, comprised of three business segments: Studios, Direct-to-Consumer, and TV Media. Skydance's portfolio unites legendary brands, including Paramount, Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max, Paramount+, Pluto TV, CBS, CNN, CBS Sports, TNT Sports, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, MTV, Food Network, BET, HGTV, and Comedy Central.

Some Important Details

We embrace 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. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable law.

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