Staff Software Engineer
Warner Bros. DiscoveryResponsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, highly available applications and platforms.
- Define technical strategy, architecture patterns, and engineering best practices.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across multiple engineering teams.
- Drive architectural decisions balancing scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Partner with product, design, editorial, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Own technical execution for complex, cross-functional initiatives.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.
- Improve engineering productivity through automation, tooling, and process enhancements.
- Review code, designs, and technical proposals to maintain high engineering standards.
- Drive monitoring, incident response, performance optimization, and reliability improvements.
- Champion security, quality, and engineering standards across CNN applications.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and adoption opportunities.
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering large-scale consumer applications and high-traffic digital products.
- Strong expertise designing distributed systems and scalable architectures.
- Experience leading technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native technologies and modern software development practices.
- Strong experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and system integrations.
- Experience with frontend and backend technologies, with full-stack understanding preferred.
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps practices, monitoring, and production operations.
- Ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority.
- Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
- Experience with media, streaming, publishing, or content platforms is preferred.
- Experience with personalization, recommendation systems, search, or AI/ML-driven products is preferred.
- Experience with mobile platforms, connected TV ecosystems, AWS or other cloud platforms, Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure automation, performance optimization, security, authentication, authorization, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, analytics, experimentation, and A/B testing is preferred.
- Experience driving engineering initiatives across global teams is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Warner Bros. Discovery offers curated benefits and opportunities for professional growth.
- The company provides accessibility accommodations during the application and recruitment process.
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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. *****