Software Engineer II - Kafka - AMS Team

Warner Bros. Discovery

Location: Bengaluru East, Karnataka, India
Job type: Full-time

Required skills

Python
AWS
cloud infrastructure
communication skills
compliance
data structures
database
end-to-end
gaming
infrastructure-as-code
Java
Kafka
NoSQL
Postgres
Terraform

About the role

Warner Bros. Discovery

Website: wbd.com
Job details:

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Software Engineer - II (Asynchronous Messaging Services 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 Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team

We are a platform-focused engineering team made up of Junior, Mid-level, Senior, and Staff engineers who specialize in distributed asynchronous messaging systems.

Our mission is simple but ambitious:
Make event-driven architecture safe, scalable, and easy to adopt across the company.

What defines our team:

We treat messaging as a product, not just infrastructure.

We believe in automation over manual operations.

We design multi-region, high-throughput, and mission-critical workloads.

We invest in documentation, internal enablement, and reusable frameworks.

We balance platform reliability with developer experience.

This is a team where you can deepen your expertise in Kafka, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering — while influencing architecture across the organization.

About the Role

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join our Kafka Platform team and help build and scale our Kafka-as-a-Service offering on top of Confluent Cloud.

You will contribute to the design, automation, and evolution of a global event streaming platform that powers high-traffic telemetry, business-critical messaging, and large-scale data processing workloads.

This role is ideal for an engineer who combines strong software development fundamentals with hands-on infrastructure and cloud experience, and who enjoys solving distributed systems challenges at scale.

What You’ll Do

Contribute to the development and evolution of our Kafka-as-a-Service platform built on Confluent Cloud.

Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure Kafka architectures across multiple regions.

Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows using Terraform.

Improve self-service capabilities for internal teams (topic provisioning, schema management, access control, etc.).

Solve complex challenges around:

Scalability & throughput

Multi-region replication

Schema Registry management

Security & compliance

High availability & disaster recovery

Participate in on-call rotations and support production systems.

Develop automation and tooling in Python, Java, or Go to improve reliability and developer experience.

Contribute to monitoring and platform observability.

What We’re Looking For

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent experience).

3–5 years of professional software development experience.

Hands-on experience with Kafka administration or operations (preferably Confluent Cloud).

Experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure.

Practical experience with Terraform or another Infrastructure-as-Code tool.

Strong programming experience in at least one of the following: Python, Java, or Go.

Experience operating and supporting production systems.

Strong understanding of software engineering best practices:

Testing & automation

Code reviews

CI/CD

Observability & monitoring

Strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems basics).

Preferred Qualifications

Operating Kafka at scale, including:

Topic configuration & partitioning strategy

Consumer group optimization

Schema evolution & governance

Replication strategies

Event-driven architecture and streaming frameworks (e.g., Kafka Streams).

Cloud infrastructure automation (AWS preferred).

Database systems (Postgres, NoSQL, etc.).

Experience participating in on-call rotations and incident responses.

Strong written communication skills, including architecture documentation and diagramming.

Experience collaborating with globally distributed teams.

What Makes You Successful in This Role

Success in this role means growing from a strong contributor into a reliable platform engineer who can independently deliver meaningful improvements.

You will thrive in this role if you:

Own Problems End-to-End

Take well-defined problems and drive them through design, implementation, testing, and production rollout.

Follow through on operational excellence — not just writing code, but ensuring it runs reliably in production.

Proactively identify inefficiencies and suggest improvements.

Build with Production in Mind

Think about scalability, resiliency, observability, and failure modes while designing solutions.

Write clean, testable, and maintainable code.

Value automation and prefer infrastructure-as-code over manual processes.

Develop Distributed Systems Intuition

Understand asynchronous patterns and trade-offs (throughput, ordering, retries, backpressure).

Ask thoughtful questions about partitioning strategy, replication, and consumer scaling.

Continuously deepen your understanding of Kafka and cloud-native systems.

Elevate the Team Around You

Participate actively in code reviews and technical discussions.

Contribute to improving documentation and shared standards.

Support teammates during incidents and learn from postmortems.

Operate with Accountability

Take ownership of the services and components you build.

Participate in on-call rotations responsibly.

Learn from production issues and help prevent repeat incidents.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces 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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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