Principal Software Engineer
Warner Bros. Discovery3 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end architecture across iOS, Android/TV, web, GraphQL, backend microservices, data stores, and streaming pipelines.
- Drive the design and evolution of the federated GraphQL platform, including subgraph boundaries, schema governance, entity ownership, and versioning.
- Architect low-latency, high-throughput event-driven systems for live scores, play-by-play, notifications, and other real-time sports data.
- Define API contracts, data-fetching patterns, performance standards, resilience patterns, observability, SLAs/SLOs, and capacity plans for Tier-1 services.
- Partner with product, editorial, data, design, mobile, web, and engineering teams to translate business needs into scalable solutions.
- Review technology choices and architecture designs, lead design reviews, and enforce coding, testing, CI/CD, benchmarking, and quality standards.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and contribute to long-term platform strategy and technical roadmaps.
- Investigate and resolve cross-cutting production issues involving latency, data consistency, caching, memory, and stability.
- Drive adoption of emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development and agentic AI capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 15+ years of software engineering experience delivering complex, large-scale distributed systems and platforms.
- Deep hands-on expertise with TypeScript, Node.js, and modern backend frameworks such as Express.
- Strong GraphQL expertise, ideally including Apollo Server, Apollo Federation, subgraphs, gateways/routers, schema governance, and DataLoader.
- Experience with React web and native mobile client architecture using Swift/iOS and/or Kotlin/Android.
- Strong relational and NoSQL data-layer experience with PostgreSQL, Prisma/ORMs, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, and ElastiCache.
- Experience designing event-driven and streaming architectures with Apache Kafka and/or RabbitMQ/SQS, including Protobuf-based schema or contract management.
- Experience operating Tier-1, high-uptime, low-latency systems with large and spiky traffic volumes.
- 5+ years of cloud experience, preferably AWS, including Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Helm, Terraform, and Terragrunt.
- Strong grounding in resilience patterns, observability, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, structured logging, and production operations.
- Experience with GitHub Actions, automated testing, code-quality tooling, JWT/authentication, and secrets management.
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging, performance-tuning, communication, leadership, and cross-team influence skills.
- Preferred qualifications include Elixir/OTP, Phoenix, GenStage, APNs/FCM, AWS Lambda, multi-region systems, AI-assisted development, agentic AI/LLM features, RAG, tool or function calling, agent orchestration, evaluations, guardrails, vector stores, embeddings, prompt and context engineering, MCP, and open-source or GraphQL/streaming community contributions.
Benefits
- Fast-track growth opportunities.
- Equal opportunity workplace with accessibility accommodations available.
- The posting does not specify a work arrangement, contract duration, or compensation details.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSDatadogDockerElixirExpressGitHub ActionsGraphQLHelmiOSKotlinKubernetesMongoDBNode.jsPhoenixPostgreSQLRabbitMQReactRedisSwiftTerraformTypeScript
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About Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery is a global media company that produces and distributes film, television, streaming, sports, news, and games for consumers and distribution partners. Its portfolio includes Warner Bros. Pictures, HBO and Max, CNN, Discovery Channel, HGTV, and DC, with revenue from subscriptions, advertising, licensing, and theatrical releases. Formed in 2022 through the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, it is headquartered in New York City and trades on Nasdaq as WBD.