Senior Staff Data Engineer

Warner Bros. Discovery•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

As a Senior Staff Data Engineer, you will work across teams to design, build and operate the data foundations that power ML training, feature computation and real-time inference for our Machine Learning team. You will partner with ML engineers, platform engineers and product teams to discover data needs, build reliable data pipelines and deliver high-quality data products that empower and accelerate the team.

Requirements

10+ years building production data solutions. Strong SQL and data modeling.
Expertise in modern data tools (Kafka, Airflow, Spark, etc.)
Expertise with distributed systems and a strong understanding of the way data is modeled impacts what is possible
Proficiency in several programming languages
Passion for data quality and reliability; comfort owning systems end-to-end in a fast-moving environment.
Comfortable working cross functionally.
Experience with streaming and event-driven systems

Nice To Haves

Proficiency in Go and/or Python.
Experience with Snowflake, DynamoDB and Open Search.
Cloud infrastructure & IaC experience, especially AWS & Terraform.
ML platform tooling familiarity (eg. Metaflow, SageMaker)
Experience with Experimentation and A/B Testing

Responsibilities

Design and own data pipelines and products that support ML training, feature storage and inference.
Model datasets and schemas optimized for ML features and real time (low latency) inference.
Establish data quality, testing, and observability.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into durable data products and interfaces.
Set engineering standards, review designs/code, mentor engineers, and lead cross- team initiatives.