Senior Staff Software Engineer
Warner Bros. DiscoveryResponsibilities
- 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.
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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. *****