This role pays more than
56%
of similar roles. Most pay
$162,000–$243,950
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$206k
versus about
$203k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery is a global media and entertainment company operating a broad portfolio of iconic content and brands including Warner Bros. film studio, HBO, CNN, Discovery Channel, and Max streaming service. Industry: Media & Entertainment
Warner Bros. Discovery currently has
35 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$115,640–$214,760
across 24 roles with salary data.
The Senior Staff Data Engineer joins the team to design and deliver high-scale data pipelines that process billions of daily ad events across a global ecosystem. This role involves modernizing legacy workflows into modular, cloud-native lakehouse architectures while ensuring mission-critical data is delivered reliably for monetization and decisioning. The candidate will build ingestion, ETL, and activation pipelines for real-time and batch processing, while partnering with Data Science to operationalize machine learning models. Key technical requirements include expertise in AWS, open table formats like Iceberg, Delta, or Hudi, and distributed compute engines such as Spark, Flink, and Presto. The role also requires proficiency in Kafka or Kinesis for low-latency ingestion. The work focuses on solving complex advertising technology challenges, including yield optimization, identity systems, and privacy-compliant data delivery within a high-throughput environment.
What does a Data Engineer earn?
Median $162000 from 205 postings across 57 companies.
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