Staff Software Engineer

4 Months ago • 9-13 Years • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

The Staff Software Engineer will be part of the Commerce group within Warner Bros. Discovery's Global Tech division. Responsibilities include building high-performance, scalable systems for monetizing streaming services, encompassing subscription management, payment processing, and financial reporting. The role requires expertise in Java/JVM languages, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, distributed systems, microservices, and asynchronous communication. The engineer will drive best practices, contribute to team strategy, and mentor junior engineers, ensuring high-quality software delivery in a fast-paced environment. Troubleshooting production issues, improving system design, and proactively creating best practices are key aspects of this position.
Must have:
  • Proficient in Java or other JVM languages
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
  • Understanding of distributed systems and microservices
  • Experience with persistence and caching solutions
  • Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging
Good to have:
  • Experience with Spring WebFlux, Vert.x, or Node.js
  • Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking programming
  • Experience with gRPC and Kafka
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.

Staff Engineer, Commerce - 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:

The Commerce group is part of the Core & Data organization within WBD’s Global Tech division. Our services handle all aspects of monetizing our streaming services. This includes everything from managing products, pricing, and promotions; selling subscriptions and pay-per-view events; integration with 3rd party providers for global and local payment methods; handling taxes, fraud, financial reporting, and much, much more. We provide the backend APIs that power all our clients, and our teams own design, build, maintain, and are responsible to both deploy and operate our services. The group is currently based in US, Sweden, and Poland and is now expanding in India.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.

  • Drives best practices and sets standards for the team.

  • Is a key influencer in the team’s strategy and contributes significantly to the team planning.

  • Shows good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.

  • Is a result-driven creative thinker who drives innovation and produces delightful experiences for our customers.

  • Is an advocate for data-driven decision-making, has an insatiable curiosity, and loves to invent and innovate to solve difficult problems.

  • Has a strong point of view but remains open-minded.

  • Takes ownership of their work and consistently delivers results in a fast-paced environment.

  • You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.

  • You play a leading role in designing and developing major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other engineers.

  • You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.

  • You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.

  • You troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it. You identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design.

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

  • You propose and create best practices proactively where none exist.

  • You make high-impact decisions driving how and what software gets built.

  • You mentor junior engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team.

  • Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on the engineers around you.

What to Bring:

  • Proficient in Java or other JVM languages.

  • 9-13 Years of total experience and should have experience in Java and a few other languages.

  • Experience and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

  • Great understanding of distributed systems challenges, micro-service-based architectures, and asynchronized communication (e.g. using gRPC and Kafka).

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

  • Practical knowledge of 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.

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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