Senior Software Engineer - Kafka - AMS Team, Bangalore
Warner Bros. DiscoveryBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted March 24, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
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 WarnerMedia’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery’s leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. ****Please be aware of recruitment scams by individuals posing as employers and encouraging candidates to apply for, interview and/or accept nonexistent job opportunities as a means to solicit personal information or money. The online scammers have become much more sophisticated in their attempts to lure victims. Employment opportunities and job offers at Warner Bros. Discovery will always come from our Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. WBD does not extend job offers via email or on any other messaging tools to individuals to whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @wbd.com. A valid link for employment with Warner Bros. Discovery can be found at https://careers.wbd.com/global/en. If you believe you have been contacted by a scammer and may be the victim of fraud or identity theft, you should report details to the police where you live. You can also report job scams to the FTC. Learn more at https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams. *****
Job Description
We are a team of platform engineers specializing in distributed asynchronous messaging systems, and we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed systems, platform engineering, and cloud automation to help evolve our messaging platform and guide the adoption of event-driven architecture across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong programming experience in Python, Java, or Go.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka administration or operations (Confluent Cloud preferred).
- Experience designing or operating distributed systems in production.
- Strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or similar tools.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting production systems at scale.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
Benefits
- Championing Inclusion at WBD: Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: 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.
- Accessibility: We offer instructions to submit a request for accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process.