Senior Staff Data Engineer (Ad Tech Team - AWS experience required)
Core
Design and deliver high-scale data pipelines processing billions of ad events daily for monetization and decisioning across WBD's global ecosystem.
Role type
Senior Staff Data Engineer (Ad Tech)
Builds
Cloud-native data pipelines, lakehouse architectures (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi), and real-time streaming systems for ad activation.
Domain
Advertising Technology / Big Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems design, high-throughput pipeline engineering, cloud-native architecture, open table formats, streaming systems, CI/CD automation, AdTech domain knowledge
Preferred skills
PhD in distributed systems or statistical optimization, mentorship of junior engineers
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Azure, Iceberg, Delta, Hudi, Spark, Flink, Presto, Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub
Responsibilities
Design and maintain ingestion, ETL, and activation pipelines; Optimize data workflows for latency, reliability, and scalability; Modernize legacy ad-tech systems into lakehouse-based architectures; Partner with Data Science to operationalize ML models; Mentor junior engineers and elevate engineering standards
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with architectural leadership
