Staff Engineer - LIVE Team

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 Engineering- Live Team
 

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 Live team works on building a state-of-the-art ecosystem for ingesting, orchestrating, delivering and operating Warner Bros. Discovery’s live programming around the world.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will assume a technical leadership role on the team and work with Product and Engineering across geographies to deliver on new product features, initiatives, and integrations. With your deep technical knowledge, you will lead conversations for planning, development and offer expert recommendations for strategies, integration, and best practices to help support delivery of in-house product solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative, psychologically safe, and high-performance work environment.

• Support the engineers on the team by coaching, setting goals, and providing regular feedback.

• Facilitate team ceremonies - daily stand ups, weekly team meetings, retrospectives, etc.

• Champion processes and the engineering maturity expected of an established tech-focused organization.

• Lead design, discovery, technical planning, and status discussions within your team, helping set direction and context, and identifying any gaps or blockers.

• Contribute to discussions around high level planning, roadmaps, and status with teams across the organization.

What to Bring:

• 9-15 years of experience developing scalable software using microservices
• Experience in backend and frontend software development, ranging from building micro services and event driven architectures/solutions to customer-facing UI.
• · Experience in private and public API design and cross-service integrations.
• · Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, design patterns, building maintainable code, performance)
• · Familiarity with a range of database technologies, encompassing both SQL and NoSQL options.
• · Usage and deep understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, Kubernetes, Kafka and AWS services
• · Experience building, operating, and owning services. Implementing operational excellence mechanisms, runbooks, and best practices including alerting, metrics, and logging using CloudWatch, PagerDuty, etc.
• · Ability to work with minimal instructions on day-to-day work, able to consume and self-start with general instructions on new assignments.
• · Fosters an inclusive, supportive, and physiologically safe engineering culture.

About you:

• You understand a broad range of computer science concepts, and know how, when, and when not to use them. You can dive deep into a wide range of technical problems offering suggestions and feedback to your team, and you are still comfortable with technical details.

• You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgement when choosing to build new vs adapting existing systems.

• You are experienced and capable of playing a leading role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, in collaboration with other teams as necessary.

• You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist and have a track-record of applying these on teams you have led.

• You are comfortable with scrum agile methodologies, aiming for continuous improvement, adapting best engineering practices, and leading by example.

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

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