Manager, Software Development

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.

Who We Are

Warner Bros. Discovery's DTC technology and product organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web and consoles. As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery’s continued growth, building world-class products from the ground-up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, Motor Trend, and many more.

Who You Are

The ideal candidate has an established record of accomplishment in building new or elevating existing software teams. You know how to establish a team’s identity and how to define the way in which that team works within a larger organization. You have mastered the ability to delegate – at both the task and project level – to appropriate team members and are able to ensure that the right results are achieved even without your constant oversight. You are a leader that people turn to when they want to build something new as you can align with company priorities and processes, or even create new ones when necessary.

What You will Do

As an Software Development Manager within the Release and Delivery Engineering organization, you will be joining a group that is responsible for building a truly global, self-service cloud platform (PaaS) to enable DTC’s growing number of engineering teams to build, test, deploy, and manage the complete operational life cycle of their services in a fully autonomous fashion. Specifically, you will be leading a team responsible for creating a build systems, pipelines, tools, and telemetry, other engineering teams will use to build software at scale. You will help drive technical decision-making, particularly regarding the architectural direction of the platform components for building software. Your team focuses on providing a straightforward process and set of tools for application teams to leverage so that they can build their application with quality and velocity.

You will help set the tone for how your team operates. You will insist on modern, rigorous software development practices that emphasize testability, repeatability, and self-service automation. You will mentor your team and help grow your developers into leaders. You will openly collaborate with other teams’ managers and help raise the bar of engineering excellence across the entire organization.

Expectations

• 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 not faded 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 do not consider yourself above individual contributor work. You 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 own work.

• You will be managing and supporting a team of engineers. You will invest in time in 1-1 with your reports and provide your reports guidance in career development.

• Given a larger business goal, you can facilitate ramping up an existing team or building a new team, including estimating the needed skills and team size, defining processes, team structure, and means of collaboration. You have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to hit these goals.

• You have shown the ability to make great hiring decisions as evidenced by the performance of engineers on your team, and you can retain and develop the best engineers.

• You have demonstrated the capacity to make decisions for more than one engineering team or functional area showing that your judgment is fungible.

• You raise the quality bar of your team by creating a culture that ensures elevated levels of engineering and operational excellence.

• You foster an environment of inclusiveness, psychological safety and ensure your team has fun while solving hard problems.

In addition, your technical skills should match well to the following:

• Hands-on experience with at least two build systems consisting of (e.g. Gradle, Maven, Yarn, Npm, Bazel, Make, Buck)

• Hands-on experience with designing and maintaining Continuous Integration systems at scale.

• Hands-on experience with at least one IaC tool (e.g. CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Hands-on experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, or other)

• Experience with the development and operation of high throughput build sys

• tems supporting hundreds of developers or more.

• Experience as a software developer using at least one of (Swift, Kotlin/Java, JavaScript or Golang preferred) and have a good understanding of how software applications are built. This includes understanding an application’s dependency tree.

• Hands-on experience with automating development workflow pipelines (CI/CD)

• Operational experience (i.e. on-call rotation, incident response)

• Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation (including diagramming)

• Strong CS fundamentals

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   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.

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