Staff Software Engineer - MSC Rights Team

5 Months ago • 9 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Warner Bros. Discovery seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join its MSC Rights Team in Bangalore. This hands-on role requires 9+ years of backend software engineering experience with Java, building scalable, reliable, and secure solutions using distributed architectures. Responsibilities include driving technical direction, mentoring the team, collaborating on cross-functional projects, and owning software projects from design to deployment. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in service-oriented and event-driven architectures, Docker/Kubernetes, Kafka, and agile methodologies. Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana) and operational experience (on-call rotation, incident response) are crucial.
Must have:
  • 9+ years backend software engineering experience
  • Expertise in JAVA
  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Docker/Kubernetes and Kafka experience
  • Agile methodology experience
Good to have:
  • Experience with Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana
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 – Backend, Content Systems, 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 Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.

Meet Our Team: 

The Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) global tech organization has many software engineering teams build applications for the web, mobile, tablets, connected TVs, consoles, and other streaming devices. Our platform covers everything from search, catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and really much more. 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.

Roles & Responsibilities:

We are looking for a talented staff engineer to join our team. As a Staff Engineer you will play a crucial role in providing technical leadership, direction and mentorship to our engineering team. You will be responsible for driving cross-team projects, collaborating with other teams to achieve organizational initiatives, participate in design review and defining robust engineering practices. This is a hand-on technical role with a dash of leadership and strategy.

  • Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, resilient and secure solutions.

  • Drive the team’s goals and technical direction to find and pursue technical opportunities that makes the solution more efficient.

  • Effectively communicates complex design and architecture details.

  • Understand company and industry-wide trends to help develop new technologies.

  • Conceptualize, develop and implement changes  that prevent key systems from becoming unreliable and unstable.

  • Own all aspects of critical software projects from design to implementation, QA, deployment and monitoring.

What to Bring:

  • 9+ years of experience in backend software engineering building distributed applications.

  • Expertise in JAVA programming language.

  • Strong problem solving skills.

  • Experience working with large-scale, distributed, service oriented and event-driven architecture and systems and understanding of the core principles around observability & monitoring, performance, high availability, scalability, reliability and security.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills – enjoy working with engineers and product owners and technical program managers within the team and across the team.

  • Experience with Docker/ Kubernetes and message buses like kafka.

  • Proficiency with GIT

  •  Experience working in an agile-based methodology.

  • Self-motivated to build and share knowledge and skills to mentor the team members.

  • Proven experience in providing technical leadership and direction.

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

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

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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