Staff Software Engineer

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 Engineer, Identity and Growth, Hyderabad, India

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: 

DTC’s many software engineering teams build applications for the web, mobile, tablets, connected TVs, consoles, and other streaming devices. 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.

We are setting up an India Development Center to better support our global streaming services and assist international teams. We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join the India Identity and Growth teams and enable the global expansion of our services.

Roles & Responsibilities: 

As a Staff Engineer, you will tackle complex challenges, analyzing situations and data with a keen eye for detail. Your role involves leading the team in designing and implementing significant functional changes to existing or new software systems. You will exercise sound judgment to determine when to build novel solutions and when to extend existing ones. This role combines technical expertise, leadership, and mentorship, making you a pivotal part of the team’s success. Your ability to communicate complex ideas simply and drive high-quality software will be instrumental in achieving project goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership:

• Take a leading role within the team, providing technical guidance and expertise.
• Collaborate with other engineers, sharing knowledge and fostering a collaborative environment.
• Model data driven decision making.
• Simplify complicated concepts for effective communication.

Exemplary Work:

• Set the bar high by delivering exemplary software contributions in production.
• Model highly available, low-latency, and efficient software solutions.
• Document code, technical designs, and operational processes to ensure clarity for fellow engineers.
• Set and uphold high bar for engineering and operational excellence.

Mentorship and Coaching:

• Coach and mentor junior engineers up to Senior Software Engineer level.
• Provide input to leadership on development needs and growth opportunities for team members.

Quality Standards:

• Drive best practices within the team, setting the standards for quality.
• Ensure that software meets rigorous quality criteria.

Strategic Input:

• Collaborate with leadership to shape development strategies.
• Identify growth opportunities and contribute to the team’s success.

What to Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree with 9 – 13 years of experience as a software developer (recent Golang (preferred) or Java exp.).
• Strong CS fundamentals; strong technical understanding of Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, messaging services, DB services, API gateways, service mesh, and infrastructure-as-code technologies/processes.
• Direct experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, or other).
• Experience in building and operating global-scale large platform services in non-prod and prod environments.
• Experience in large volume transaction systems, data migration workflows, with a focus on quality, precision, and accuracy metrics.
• Knack for operationalizing workflows into a self-serve system with appropriate guardrails.
• Experience establishing and improving data-driven infrastructure and service KPIs such as performance, scale, availability, reliability, security.
• A strong understanding of security best practices and a high bar for protecting customer data.
• Operational experience (i.e., on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks)
• Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation.

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.

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