Staff Software Engineer
Warner Bros. Discovery14 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design and own infrastructure, deployment tooling, and developer experience for ML and AI Systems teams.
- Lead architectural decisions across orchestration, serving, observability, and experimentation infrastructure.
- Build self-service tooling that enables ML practitioners to move from prototype to production independently.
- Own the migration of ML training and orchestration workloads to Outerbounds-managed Metaflow.
- Establish observability, monitoring, alerting, diagnostic tooling, and cost attribution across ML products and shared infrastructure.
- Design and operate unified registries and versioning systems for ML models and AI applications.
- Evolve the feature resolution framework and support durable feature products for analytics, training, inference, and rendering.
- Establish engineering standards for reliability, cost governance, and operational excellence.
- Review designs and code, mentor engineers, lead cross-team initiatives, and coordinate with Data Platform.
- Communicate through technical documentation, design reviews, and stakeholder interactions.
Requirements
- 8+ years building production infrastructure or platform systems with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or 6+ years with a master’s degree.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and experience delivering highly available, low-latency infrastructure.
- Strong proficiency in Python and at least one of Go, Java, or C++.
- Expertise with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code, especially AWS and Terraform.
- Experience with ML or data infrastructure, including orchestration, serving, deployment tooling, observability, or experimentation frameworks.
- A proven record of leading complex platform projects from concept to production.
- Experience partnering collaboratively with the teams served by a platform organization.
- Preferred experience with Metaflow, SageMaker, model registries, feature stores, experimentation frameworks, cost governance, FinOps, multi-tenant infrastructure, LLM-based or GenAI production systems, or machine learning engineers.
Benefits
- Warner Bros. Discovery offers career-defining opportunities, curated benefits, and tools for professional growth.
- The company supports inclusion, accessibility accommodations, and an equal-opportunity workplace.
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.