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.
Senior Software Engineer – LIVE Team, 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 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 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 develop solutions to complex problems, drive operational excellence, and champion best practices to deliver in-house product solutions.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Take complete ownership and accountability of feature requirements from conception till delivery and continue to manage, sustain and optimize the system.
Collaborate with the product, business, design and engineering functions to be on top of your team's deliverables & milestones.
Translate functional specifications into logical, component-based technical designs.
Implement software components across the Live organization.
Deliver highly reliable and scalable engineering architecture, and high quality, maintainable and operationally excellent code for your team.
Participate in design discussions and code reviews
What to Bring:
5+ 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.
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.
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