Hybrid Manager – Software Engineering, Data Core Processing

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About the role

  • Engineering Manager leading Data Core Processing team at Warner Bros. Discovery. Focusing on building enterprise-grade data platforms and ensuring operational excellence across distributed data systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 6–10 software and data engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and engineering excellence
  • Define and execute the technical roadmap for data processing infrastructure
  • Design and build scalable data pipelines for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
  • Develop systems supporting both real-time and batch data processing at scale
  • Ensure data quality, reliability, and consistency across pipelines
  • Optimize system performance and manage infrastructure costs effectively
  • Oversee development of orchestration frameworks and data processing workflows
  • Implement metadata management, data cataloging, and enrichment capabilities
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks for data systems
  • Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, and security standards
  • Collaborate with Data Science, Analytics, Product, and Infrastructure teams to deliver high-impact solutions
  • Define SLAs/SLOs and drive reliability and operational improvements
  • Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and post-mortem processes
  • Promote DevOps best practices, automation, and continuous improvement
  • Manage technical debt while balancing feature development and platform stability

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, distributed systems, or related domains
  • 3+ years of experience in engineering management leading technical teams
  • Strong expertise in data processing frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Beam, or similar
  • Proficiency in programming languages like Python, SQL, Java/Scala, or Go
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and their data services (e.g., EMR, Glue, Lambda, S3, BigQuery , Dataflow)
  • Proven experience in building and scaling data infrastructure and platforms
  • Experience with both batch and streaming data architectures
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, schema design, and data warehousing concepts
  • Experience with modern data storage formats and frameworks such as Parquet, Avro, Delta Lake, Iceberg, or Hudi
  • Experience working with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or Redis
  • Experience with orchestration tools like Airflow, Prefect, Temporal, or Argo
  • Familiarity with containerization and infrastructure tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience working with unstructured data (documents, images, video, audio) is a plus
  • Knowledge of modern data stack, data lake architectures, and multi-tenant platforms
  • Familiarity with AI/ML data pipelines, feature engineering, and data-driven applications
  • Understanding of data quality frameworks, observability tools, and governance practices
  • Exposure to vector databases and semantic search technologies is a plus
  • Contributions to open-source data processing projects are a plus
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Fast-track growth opportunities

Job title

Manager – Software Engineering, Data Core Processing

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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