Senior Staff Software Engineer
Warner Bros. Discovery4 months ago
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve architecture for customer-facing web applications, shared backend services, and CMS capabilities.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, software design, hands-on development, code reviews, documentation, and mentoring.
- Define and execute long-term technical strategy, architecture roadmaps, and platform evolution for CNN New Business.
- Influence technical decisions across multiple engineering teams and partner with Business, Product, Design, and Editorial organizations.
- Lead rapid prototyping and technical exploration for new product ideas and 0-to-1 development.
- Establish engineering practices for architecture, code quality, testing, observability, reliability, security, and operational readiness.
- Mentor engineers, support technical hiring, and elevate organizational technical capabilities.
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and identify opportunities to use AI for developer productivity and customer experiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years designing and building large-scale web applications and leading architecture for complex systems.
- At least 2+ years defining and leading architecture design.
- Strong full-stack experience with modern web technologies and frameworks, including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Python, and Go.
- Deep experience designing and implementing highly scalable web applications with client- and server-side technologies.
- Strong understanding of reliability, availability, security, privacy, analytics, observability, and operational readiness.
- Experience designing reusable components and platform capabilities for multiple consumer products and engineering teams.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures and experience designing, deploying, and operating systems in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Solid knowledge of Operations, CI/CD, and DevOps.
- Exceptional communication, collaboration, technical leadership, and mentorship skills.
Tech Stack
Categories
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.