Manager, Software Engineering - Platform Engineering

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Software Engineering Manager - Observability Platforms, 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 Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.

What you'll do:

As a Platform Engineer, you will design and build a cloud based custom Observability Platform, leveraging software-driven approaches to tackle complex, data-intensive challenges. This platform is a core engineering system that empowers the engineering community with advanced tools and capabilities to troubleshoot, optimize, and gain deeper insights into their services.

Within Platform engineering, you will bring in engineering practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and automated pipelines, ensuring the platform is reliable, scalable, and easy to adopt. You will collaborate with service teams across the organization to shape adoption, define standards, and improve platform capabilities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As an Engineering Manager here you are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex data-driven challenges and automate those solutions. Within our organization, you'll lead efforts aimed at scaling our existing operational data offerings and establish the technical strategy for how we can better equip engineers and leaders with operational intelligence. You'll build a deep understanding of our digital streaming service and use that knowledge, coupled with your engineering, infrastructure, data and cloud knowledge, to optimize and evolve how we understand our technical ecosystem.

To be successful, you'll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent collaboration and diplomacy skills. You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, standing up logging and metrics data pipelines, site reliability engineering, DevOps, and data lake management. In addition, you'll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.

• You understand a broad range of computer science concepts and know-how, when and when not to use them. You can dive deep into a wide range of technical problems offering suggestions and feedback to your team. Your interest in computer science has remained strong as you moved into a leadership role, and you are still comfortable with technical details.
• Your written and verbal communication skills are top-notch. You can distill key points out of complex technical descriptions to share with non-technical stakeholders, adapting your language and style of communication depending on the audience. You communicate through data, dates, and facts using emotion judiciously to motivate and inspire.
• You lead by example and are comfortable teaching best practices by showing people, not just telling people. Teams follow your lead because you are an inspirational leader, because you are right, and because you can show everyone high-quality examples of your work.
• Given a larger business goal, you can facilitate ramping up an existing team or building a new one, including estimating the needed skills and team size and defining processes, team structure, and means of collaboration. You have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to hit these goals.
• You have demonstrated the ability to make great hiring decisions, as is evidenced by the performance of the engineers on your team. You can inspire, challenge, and grow top engineers.
• You have demonstrated the capacity to make decisions for more than one engineering team or functional area showing that your judgment is fungible.

What to Bring:

• 13+ years of experience with a variety of cloud services like Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kinesis, AMP, network, storage etc.
• Strong software development skills in languages such as Go/Java/Python. Must have CS fundamentals and a track record of implementing highly reliable software.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Can effectively communicate vision and plan with the audience.
• Experience in working across product, engineering, and analytics teams to evaluate new ideas, discuss technical concepts, create scalable designs, implement new models, and make tradeoffs to remove roadblocks.
• Strong knowledge and implementation history of Terraform and/or other similar tooling.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservice architecture, kafka, Logging/metric/tracing platforms (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger etc), and security.
• Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes or AWS EKS is strongly desired.
• Must have the legal right to work in India.

What We Offer:

• A Great Place to work.
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities

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.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: Discovery-WAMEGLOBALR000100630EXTERNALENGLOBAL

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-01-05T19:40:46