Staff Software Engineer - Golang - QoE Platform

2 Months ago • 9-14 Years • Full Stack Development • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead efforts in scaling data offerings and establishing technical strategies for a data platform. You will build a deep understanding of the digital streaming service and use this knowledge to optimize the technical ecosystem. Responsibilities include designing and building E2E data streaming pipelines, microservices, and distributed systems, utilizing technologies like Go, Python, NoSQL (MongoDB), SQL (PostgreSQL), Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP). You will also mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Experience with video processing stacks and workflow engines is a plus.
Must have:
  • Expert in Go (Python a plus)
  • Experience with E2E data streaming pipelines
  • Microservices & distributed systems design
  • NoSQL (MongoDB) and SQL (PostgreSQL)
  • Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)
Good to have:
  • Video processing stacks (FFMPEG, codecs)
  • Workflow engines (Temporal, Cadence)
  • Experience with alerting, metrics, and logging tools
Perks:
  • Great Place to Work
  • Equal Opportunity Employer

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 - Golang- QoE Platform – Bangalore

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 Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team:

The Video Playback organization’s mission is to provide global, self-service, multi-tenant, turn key solutions for all WBD Streaming brands both at Server and Client side across Live linear, Live event & VOD stream types and wide array of device platforms serving all customers with seamless & smooth playback experience. Our mission is to foster unified QoE analytics and drive datadriven use cases by leveraging a robust multitenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze the video playback experience. We are obsessed with customer first mindset and providing them the excellent playback experience.

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 service 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 have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, data streaming pipeline, data lake management, Database, Analytics and Dashboarding.

· You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgment when choosing to build new vs extending existing ones

· You provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices, and have a track-record of applying these best practices to software that you have worked on

· You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist

· You make high impact decisions driving, what and how software is built

· You analyze requirements, study software architectures and designs to make decisions suiting the requirements. You are often right, and you are persuasive in delivering your suggestions and ideas to your team

· 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 Engineers around you

· You possess excellent collaboration and diplomacy skills.

· In addition, you’ll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.

What to Bring:

· 9-14 years, expert proficiency in Go with additional exposure to Python being a plus.

· You have architected and designed complex E2E data streaming pipeline and storage systems

· Strong experience in designing microservices, distributed systems, and asynchronous communication channels (REST, gRPC, Kafka).

· Comprehensive knowledge of full-stack application design, including UI, application logic, database layers, and caching mechanisms.

· Solid understanding of NoSQL (MongoDB preferred) and SQL (PostgreSQL preferred) for designing and managing scalable databases and data lakes.

· Experience with data modeling, database design and various SQL dialects.

· Deep expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).

· Experience with alerting, metrics, and logging tools such as Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana.

· Familiarity with video processing stacks, including encoders, FFMPEG, and codecs.

· Experience with workflow engines like Temporal, Cadence is a plus.

· Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to build empathetic tools and platforms.

· Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Other Requirements

· Research new service integrations both internal to AWS and external.

· Move quickly and intelligently - seeing technical debt as your nemesis.

· Ability to solve problems independently but knows when to request assistance.

· Strong action orientation

Characteristics & Traits

· Naturally inquisitive, critical thinker, proactive problem-solver, and detail-oriented.

· Positive attitude and an open mind

· Strong organizational skills with the ability to act independently and responsibly

· Self-starter, comfortable initiating projects from design to execution with minimal supervision

· Ability to manage and balance multiple (and sometimes competing) priorities in a fast-paced, complex business environment and can manage time effectively to consistently meet deadlines

· Team player and relationship builder

What We Offer:

· A Great Place to work.

· Equal opportunity employer

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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