Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform Team, Hyderabad
Architect and build large-scale data platforms that power streaming services and AI-driven personalization, enabling billions of events to become audience insights and intelligent products.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hyderabad, Telangāna
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience designing and shipping large-scale data platforms
- Strong programming skills (Python, Scala, or Java)
- Deep knowledge of distributed data processing (Spark, Flink, Kafka)
- Hands-on experience with cloud data infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
- Experience enabling ML/AI in production (feature pipelines, model serving)
- Track record of technical leadership and mentoring engineers
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time/streaming systems at scale
- Familiarity with MLOps tooling and modern AI/LLM frameworks
- Background in media, streaming, or high-volume consumer platforms
Full description
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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Staff Software Engineer (Data & Audience Platform Team), HyderabadAbout Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery is a premier global media and entertainment company, offering 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 and Audience Platform team sits within the Data & Analytics organization in WBD's Global Tech division. We build the data platform behind our streaming services and content businesses - the pipelines, data lakes, and serving infrastructure that turn billions of events into audience insights, personalization, and intelligent products. We're growing our presence in India and looking for a Staff Engineer to help shape the next generation of our platform, where data engineering and applied AI come together.
Role Overview
As a Staff Engineer on the Data and Audience Platform, you'll set technical direction for the systems that power both our data and our intelligence layers. You'll work on core data platform projects — building scalable, reliable infrastructure — while also enabling the ML and AI capabilities that run on top of it. This is a hands-on, high-leverage role: you'll architect systems, write code, and raise the engineering bar across the org.
What You'll Do
- Drive the architecture and design of large-scale data platform systems — pipelines, data lakes, and serving infrastructure that process billions of events.
- Build the foundations that power AI and ML: feature platforms, training data pipelines, and model-serving infrastructure.