Senior Staff Software Engineer - Content Experience Platform

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.

Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world's most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.

Your New Role...

The Direct to Consumer (DTC) Group is a technology company within Warner Bros Discovery. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our network's brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, content catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and much more. We enable performant streaming experiences across connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of WBD owned streaming services (HBO Max, Discovery+, CNN, and others). This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD's future.

We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer within the DTC Content Experience Platform. The team is responsible for aggregating, enabling, and serving the personalized Content Discovery experience within our DTC streaming video platforms through our Experience Services APIs. We ensure all client applications worldwide have seamless access to the latest and relevant content metadata, personalized browse experiences and curations, and presentational elements to deliver a best-in-class content discovery experience to our hundreds of millions of streaming users globally across our different streaming service platforms.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Drive long-term architecture and technical direction across multiple workstreams, ensuring cohesive design and scalable foundations.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior product and engineering leadership-translating technical opportunities and constraints into strategic input that influences product direction and company priorities.
• Lead complex, cross-team initiatives that require deep coordination, influencing beyond formal authority.
• Guide the technical growth of the organization by mentoring Staff+ engineers, setting high standards, and sharing knowledge broadly.
• Set the bar for operational excellence, engineering velocity, and system reliability, identifying and fixing systemic issues.
• Serve as a connector across domains, bridging teams, technologies, and business contexts to deliver integrated solutions.
• Represent engineering in company-level discussions, helping translate business goals into a sustainable technical strategy.
• Take responsibility for the long-term health and evolution of core systems and infrastructure, making principled trade-offs along the way.

• At least 10 years of experience with deep expertise in Java or other JVM languages, and a strong grasp of advanced language features and performance tuning.
• Proven experience in architecting and scaling distributed systems in cloud-native environments, with microservices, asynchronous communication patterns (e.g., gRPC, Kafka), and event-driven architectures.
• Has led the design and implementation of low-latency, high-throughput APIs powering real-time systems with demanding SLAs.
• Strong knowledge of data persistence, indexing, and caching strategies, with experience optimizing PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and in-memory caches like Caffeine for large-scale production environments.
• Has introduced or evolved observability practices across teams, including distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or Zipkin.
• Experience leading teams in adopting and scaling infrastructure as code practices using GitOps, Terraform, ArgoCD, or Helm.
• Skilled in setting up and evolving monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes, using tools such as Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, and PagerDuty.
• Practical experience with non-blocking, asynchronous, and reactive programming models using frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Reactor, or Vert.x, with a focus on resilience and throughput.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and evolve technical stacks, guide technology adoption, and make forward-looking platform decisions. Has a proven track record of leading architecture and technical direction across multiple teams or domains, not just a single work stream.
• Thinks and operates at an organizational level-connecting product, technical, and operational strategy across functions.
• Recognized as a trusted technical leader who mentors Staff-level engineers and influences broader engineering culture and direction.
• Excels at navigating complexity and ambiguity-balancing short-term business impact with long-term platform evolution.
• Champions a culture of technical excellence, inclusive collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Combines deep technical expertise with strong product and business acumen to align engineering direction with company priorities.
• Proactively identifies systemic issues and opportunities across teams and leads cross-org initiatives to improve architecture, performance, and ways of working.
• Combines deep technical expertise with strong product and business acumen to align engineering direction with company priorities and challenge initiatives which don't provide value.