Senior Software Engineer

3 Months ago • 5-8 Years • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery's India Development Center, you will build high-performance, scalable systems for global streaming services. Responsibilities include developing and operating large-scale platform services, championing engineering excellence, influencing team strategy, and collaborating with remote peers. You will utilize Golang (preferred) or Java, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure) to create delightful customer experiences. The role requires strong problem-solving skills, data-driven decision-making, and experience with microservices architectures, caching, messaging, and databases. Mentoring junior engineers and improving operational processes are also key responsibilities.
Must have:
  • Golang or Java proficiency
  • Global-scale platform experience
  • Microservice architecture expertise
  • Cloud provider experience
  • Strong CS fundamentals
Good to have:
  • Experience with Spring WebFlux, Vert.x, or Node.js
  • Familiarity with Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, or Caffeine
Perks:
  • Great Place to work
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Fast track growth opportunities

Job Details

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.

Sr Software Engineer, Consumer - Hyderabad, India. 

 

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. 

Meet Our Team:  

DTC’s many software engineering teams build applications for the web, mobile, tablets, connected TVs, consoles, and other streaming devices. Every customer starts their wonderful journey into the world of WBD through DTC’s Identity and Growth teams. We ensure customers can seamlessly authenticate and authorize across all WBD brands. We are a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD’s future.   

 

We are setting up an India Development Center to better support our global streaming services and assist international teams. We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join the India Identity and Growth teams and enable the global expansion of our services.  

 

Roles & Responsibilities:  

  • Build high-performance, stable, and scalable systems deployed in production. 

  • Always champion engineering and operational excellence.  

  • Drive best practices and set standards within the team. 

  • Influence the team’s strategy and contribute significantly to planning. 

  • Exercise good judgment when balancing immediate and long-term business needs. 

  • Creatively think and innovate to deliver delightful experiences for customers. 

  • Always demonstrate data-driven decision-making and continuously seek solutions to challenging problems. 

  • Hold strong opinions while remaining open to other perspectives. 

  • Consistently deliver results, with quality, in a fast-paced environment. 

  • Collaborate with peers, share knowledge, and contribute to technical decisions. 

  • Lead major functional changes in existing or new software systems. 

  • Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and improve processes. 

  • Document code, designs, and processes for clarity. 

  • Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices. 

  • Establish best practices and quality standards within the team. 

  • Mentor junior engineers and positively influence the team. 

 

What to Bring: 

  • Bachelor’s degree with 58 years of experience as a software developer.  

  • Proficient in Golang (preferred) or Java languages. 

  • Experience in building and operating global-scale large platform services in non-prod and prod environments. 

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

  • Strong CS fundamentals; strong technical understanding of Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, caching solutions, messaging services, DB services, API gateways, service mesh, and infrastructure-as-code technologies/processes. 

  • Direct experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, or other).  

  • Experience establishing and improving data-driven infrastructure and service KPIs such as performance, scale, availability, reliability, security.  

  • A strong understanding of security best practices and a high bar for protecting customer data.  

  • Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty. 

  • Experience with persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Caffeine. 

  • Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of programming. Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Vert.x, Node.js. 

  • Operational Experience to run services globally; on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks. 

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with emphasis on technical documentation.  

 

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 the diversity of our society and the world around us. 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.

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