Senior Staff Software Engineer

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.

We are the now and the next. The power behind the people building the future. We are born from the spirit of innovation. We are created from the idea that people around the world want more, need more, deserve more. We are the home of the global digital revolution. We are CNN.

• Define, communicate, and evolve the architecture for customer-facing web applications, shared backend services, and CMS capabilities, ensuring alignment with business objectives and long-term technical strategy

• Provide technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle through architecture reviews, software design, hands-on development, code reviews, documentation, and technical mentoring.

• Partner with New Business engineering leadership to define and execute the long-term technical strategy, architecture roadmap, and platform evolution for CNN New Business

• Influence technical decisions across multiple engineering teams and build strong partnerships with Business, Product, Design, and Editorial organizations to deliver cohesive customer experiences

• Lead rapid prototyping efforts and technical exploration to validate new product ideas and accelerate 0-to-1 product development

• Champion engineering excellence by establishing best practices for software architecture, code quality, testing, observability, reliability, security, and operational readiness

• Mentor engineers, contribute to technical hiring, and help elevate the technical capabilities of the engineering organization

• Lead the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and identify opportunities to leverage AI to improve developer productivity and deliver differentiated customer experiences.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of experience designing and building large-scale web applications and leading architecture for complex software systems. At least 2+ years of experience in a role where you defined and led architecture design

• High-Performance mindset to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with a focus on quickly delivering customer value over delivering a perfect solution

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders across the company

• Technical Leader and mentorship- Your leadership style is rooted in strong collaboration and lifting others. You love to share your knowledge and experience across all teams

• Experience in designing reusable components and platform capabilities that accelerate development across multiple consumer products and engineering teams

• Strong full-stack engineering experience with modern web technologies and frameworks, including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Python, Go, etc.

• Deep industry experience in designing and implementing highly scalable Web applications, and hands-on familiarity with both client- and server- side technologies. Solid understanding of key design concepts: reliability, availability, security, privacy, analytics, observability, operational readiness

• Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures and experience designing, deploying, and operating systems in AWS (strongly preferred), GCP, or Azure

• Solid knowledge of Operations, CI/CD, and DevOps.