Staff Software Developer

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.

Max is where storytelling takes center stage and where creatives find a home with the support and resources to do their best work, no matter the genre or format. Whatever the viewer wants to watch is front and center and more of what they crave is easily discovered. It is where our exclusive Max Originals and iconic entertainment brands thrive, with HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros., DC, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network and more delivering the greatest array of series, movies, and specials for audiences of all ages. HBO Max originally launched in the United States in May 2020 and introduced a lower priced, advertising-supported tier in June 2021. It rolled out globally across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021, followed by its first European launches in the Nordics and Spain later that year. In May 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery introduced Max, an enhanced streaming platform, in the U.S. HBO Max is currently available in 46 countries and there are plans for the continued global expansion of Max in 2024.

Meet Our Team:

DTC's many software engineering teams build applications for the web, mobile, tablets, connected TVs, consoles, and other streaming devices. DTC's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams are responsible for ensuring these systems stay up and operational. Warner Bros. Discovery's approach to SRE is proactive vs. reactive. The team focuses on building and supporting prevention systems and processes over incident response. SRE builds systems that assess Warner Bros. Discovery's resilience risk posture, enable auto-remediation and failover, and partner directly with service development teams to ensure the robustness of their architectures.

We are a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to Warner Bros. Discovery's future. We need a development leader who is comfortable turning the needs of our engineering community into thoughtful design and architecture, serving as a senior resource for other developers as they build software components. The Staff Software Engineer - SRE needs to be both a strong individual contributor in designing, building and managing highly scalable and resilient systems and a thought leader for the SRE organization.

• You play a leadership role in the domain of scalable and reliable system design and implementation, performance engineering and resiliency testing. You are known for your subject matter expertise in each of these specializations.
• You are responsible for maintaining a platform-based mindset, the systems you design must be architecturally sound with a focus on reliability and ensure ease of use and adoption across the organization.
• You contribute to your team's strategy within the SRE domain and collaborate with platform and service teams to inform planning and drive technical decisions that align with team goals.
• You will build multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• You make trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
• You ensure uptime and performance at peak workflow hours by assisting with system capacity planning and ensuring appropriate instance type allocation.
• You provide mentoring to senior engineers and assist them with adoption of best practices to respective business services.
• You describe your design, code, and architectural decisions to junior engineers, principal engineers, and leadership alike. You embrace constructive feedback from these groups and adapt to align with organizational standards and objectives.
• You offer enhancements to best practices, design, and architecture improvements, and as feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or recurring encouragement.
• You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and resolve it. You will also work with other teams to avoid recurrence.
• You will contribute to upskilling and hiring for the team.

• 8+ years of experience working with software development and platform teams to design, build and implement highly scalable and resilient systems.
• High proficiency and technical leadership with technologies on our stack including containerized Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, AWS services, CI/CD tools, performance testing tools, APMs, messaging services, DB services, API gateways, service mesh, repeatable self-serve gitops-based deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code technologies/processes.
• You have extensive experience in working on large-scale production cloud native systems on public cloud.
• You have extensive experience in industry standard observability tools and technologies.
• You have designed, built, and implemented systems and frameworks that validate the scalability of large-scale systems (load/stress and fault-injection testing).
• You have experience establishing and raising the bar for technical best practices for your team.
• You have acquired subject-matter expertise over one or more production software systems and demonstrated a pattern of shipping high-quality feature changes in that or those system(s).
• You solve scalability and reliability problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.
• You deliver high-quality results the first time and improve code, documentation, design and strategies with each iteration. Trust in your capabilities extends beyond your team and into the broader organization.

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