Senior Software Engineer
Warner Bros. DiscoveryResponsibilities
- Operate Kubernetes clusters, including version upgrades, critical component management, node rotations, and workload compatibility analysis.
- Scan clusters for remediation needs, define corrective actions, and execute security patches and infrastructure changes.
- Automate cluster upgrades and other operational processes across hundreds of clusters to reduce toil.
- Optimize infrastructure costs through Karpenter scaling strategies, pod bin-packing, node-family selection, spot capacity, Graviton/ARM adoption, and overprovisioning analysis.
- Automate creation of Kubernetes clusters and bootstrap service mesh, deployment systems, and observability capabilities for new markets and tenants.
- Manage the lifecycle of critical container-runtime components and collaborate with platform teams and SRE to improve reliability and efficiency.
- Use AI and agentic workflows to improve operational processes and contribute to organizational AI skills and plugins.
- Monitor rollout metrics, define and measure infrastructure-maintenance KPIs, honor SLAs, and stop, roll back, or escalate problematic changes.
Requirements
- Experience with Kubernetes and AWS.
- Experience in software development, infrastructure management, or operations.
- Ability to write automation code in Python, Bash, or Golang.
- Experience designing infrastructure CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
- Experience with Helm templating for Kubernetes manifests and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
- Experience rolling out infrastructure changes to production through change-management workflows.
- Understanding of workload impacts from cluster changes and node rotations, along with metrics needed to identify rollout problems.
- Strong ownership of production rollouts, including rollback, remediation, and escalation when necessary.
- Understanding of security practices including least-privilege access and firewall configuration.
- Ability to collaborate with service development teams and understand maintenance-window issues.
- Experience with Git and GitHub pull-request workflows, Agile practices, Sprints, Epics/Stories, and Jira.
- Experience using AI tools such as Claude Code or Cursor and understanding of agentic workflows.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement is indicated by the posting.
- Warner Bros. Discovery offers career development opportunities, curated benefits, and tools for professional growth.
- The employer provides disability-related application and recruitment accommodations.
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. *****