Software Engineer II
Warner Bros. DiscoveryResponsibilities
- Author, test, review, and optimize production-quality code using infrastructure as code, version control, and continuous delivery practices.
- Design, build, and operate AI-powered applications and production systems, including LLM-based content understanding and consumer-facing AI features.
- Integrate ML and foundation models into production applications with guardrails, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Develop AI platform capabilities including prompt management, evaluation, caching, versioning, deployment, and tenant management.
- Design highly available, low-latency, and efficient software while driving monitoring, alerting, documentation, and long-term code health.
- Provide technical input on system architecture, drive technical decisions, and independently ship high-quality features.
- Partner with ML engineers, editorial, product, and platform stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable AI features.
- Build internal AI-assisted workflows and communicate through technical documentation, code reviews, design reviews, and stakeholder interactions.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or at least 2 years with a master’s degree.
- Strong backend engineering experience with data-intensive applications at web scale.
- Proficiency in Python and at least one of Go, Java, or C++.
- Solid foundation in relational databases such as Postgres, NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, and infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship highly available, low-latency systems.
- Preferred experience integrating LLMs or foundation models into production applications.
- Preferred familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, or LLM observability.
- Preferred experience with classification, content understanding, information retrieval systems, experimentation frameworks, or A/B testing.
- Prior experience on a machine learning or AI team and a background in media, publishing, or news organizations are preferred.
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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 WarnerMedia’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery’s leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. ****Please be aware of recruitment scams by individuals posing as employers and encouraging candidates to apply for, interview and/or accept nonexistent job opportunities as a means to solicit personal information or money. The online scammers have become much more sophisticated in their attempts to lure victims. Employment opportunities and job offers at Warner Bros. Discovery will always come from our Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. WBD does not extend job offers via email or on any other messaging tools to individuals to whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @wbd.com. A valid link for employment with Warner Bros. Discovery can be found at https://careers.wbd.com/global/en. If you believe you have been contacted by a scammer and may be the victim of fraud or identity theft, you should report details to the police where you live. You can also report job scams to the FTC. Learn more at https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams. *****