Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

3 Weeks ago • 10 Years + • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Data Platform Tools and Frameworks team at Warner Bros. Discovery, you will design and lead engineers in building highly available enterprise tooling. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive the vision for the big data platform, and scale existing data offerings. This role requires expertise in web applications, microservices, data lake management, and cloud technologies (AWS). You'll leverage your strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting skills to optimize and evolve how WBD understands its technical ecosystem. Responsibilities include designing enterprise tooling, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving the vision for the big data platform.
Must have:
  • 10+ years web app & microservices experience
  • Agile environment experience
  • High-performance distributed systems knowledge
  • Production system operations experience
  • AWS (S3, EC2, IAM, Lambda etc.) experience
  • SQL, Python, Java, Go experience
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with Gen AI tech stack
  • Experience with process development and coding methodologies
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 Software Engineer - Data Platform Tools and Frameworks

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 Data & Analytics organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and data products vital to WBD, including flagship streaming product Max and non-streaming products such as Films Group, Sports, News and overall WBD eco-system. Our mission is to foster unified analytics and drive data-driven use cases by leveraging a robust multi-tenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely, informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
As a member of the Tools and Frameworks team you will be helping to develop tools that help our community of developers save time and energy by streamlining engineering processes. As a senior member of the team you will be able to help shape the future of the platform and the way we enable teams across all of WBD to build better applications and experiences faster.


Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Staff Software Engineer here you are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex data-driven challenges and automate those solutions. Within our organization, you’ll lead efforts aimed at scaling our existing data offerings and establish the technical strategy for how we can better equip engineers and leaders with Data Platform. You’ll build a deep understanding of our digital streaming services and use that knowledge, coupled with your engineering, infrastructure, data, and cloud knowledge, to optimize and evolve how we understand our technical ecosystem. To be successful, you’ll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent collaboration skills. You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, microservice development,  data lake management, monitoring, and supporting production systems. In addition, you’ll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.

Your Role Accountabilities:

  • Design and lead engineers in constructing highly available enterprise tooling to support engineering teams in developing data intensive products.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand changing requirements and incorporate them in the roadmap.

  • Drive the vision for our big data platform


What to Bring:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or information technology.

  • 10+ years of experience working with web applications and microservices.

  • Enjoying working in an agile environment

  • Excellent knowledge of web application architecture, experience with design and architecture of high-performance distributed systems a plus

  • Experience with operations for in production systems

  • Good understanding of algorithm and data structures

  • Experience automating, scripting, and streamlining processes for efficiency and accuracy utilizing, SQL, Python, Java, Go etc.

  • Some experience with AWS with knowledge of S3, EC2, IAM, Security, Lambda, Networking etc.

  • Familiarity with gen AI tech stack (LLMs, Vector Databases etc.) is a plus.

  • Ability and experience with the development of processes and procedures, selecting and implementing coding methodologies within your team.

  • Ability to provide technical documentation and project plans for technical staff members.

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.

  • Excellent organizational and time management skills to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

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 a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. 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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About The Company

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