Staff Software Engineer
Warner Bros. DiscoveryResponsibilities
- Lead the technical design and architecture of scalable, reliable, and low-latency experimentation services.
- Build and evolve a centralized, vendor-agnostic experimentation platform across web, iOS, Android, and CTV surfaces.
- Enable edge and server-side testing while minimizing performance impact on end users.
- Design systems that ensure data integrity, source-of-truth metrics, and automated experiment analysis and reporting.
- Automate experimentation workflows from ideation through results to increase testing velocity and quality.
- Set technical direction, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and promote engineering and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with product, editorial, analytics, platform, and other engineering partners to drive adoption and alignment.
- Treat internal experimentation tooling as a product measured by adoption, reliability, performance, and impact.
Requirements
- Deep experience designing and building distributed systems or platform services used by multiple teams.
- Strong backend engineering experience with APIs, data pipelines, and services, especially Node.js, plus familiarity with frontend engineering using TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, or React.
- Experience designing performant, low-latency systems operating at scale.
- Experience with experimentation, feature flagging, analytics, or data platforms.
- Understanding of data quality, observability, and production measurement.
- Ability to set technical direction for complex problem spaces and guide architecture beyond the immediate team.
- Experience navigating ambiguous, cross-cutting challenges involving teams, vendors, and platforms.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical tradeoffs to non-engineering partners.
- Track record of influencing without authority and driving alignment across senior stakeholders.
- Familiarity with edge compute, CDN-based architectures, or server-side experimentation.
- Experience integrating and optimizing deployment pipelines.
- Fluency in English.
- Exposure to media, content, or consumer-scale digital products is preferred.
- Interest in applying AI or automation to experimentation workflows is preferred.
- Kafka, Go, Rust, or content management systems experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Warner Bros. Discovery offers thoughtfully curated benefits, career development opportunities, and tools for professional growth.
- Workplace accommodations are available for qualified candidates with disabilities.
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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. *****