Staff Software Engineer
Warner Bros. Discovery29 days ago
Base Salary
$166k - $308k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the architectural roadmap and technical direction for delivery and deployment platform capabilities.
- Lead complex initiatives from design and stakeholder alignment through implementation, production readiness, and deployment.
- Own resilience, disaster recovery, and automated release-safety programs for CI/CD infrastructure.
- Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines, build systems, artifact management, release automation, and developer-facing self-service interfaces.
- Establish on-call, incident response, gameday, documentation, and operational excellence practices.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and delivery of complex technical work.
- Represent the team in cross-organizational technical forums, vendor relationships, and architecture reviews.
Requirements
- 5+ years leading the technical direction of complex systems and influencing other engineers and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous projects through architecture, alignment, implementation, and production deployment.
- 5+ years building and operating CI/CD systems across both build and deployment lifecycle stages.
- 5+ years with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable systems.
- 3+ years with build systems such as Gradle, Maven, Bazel, npm/yarn, Rush, or Make.
- Experience with artifact management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory or ECR, including governance, access control, lifecycle policies, and artifact promotion.
- 5+ years with AWS, including EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, and networking.
- 3+ years with infrastructure-as-code tools such as CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
- 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience, including deployment lifecycle management, rollout strategies, workload identity, and cluster troubleshooting.
- 5+ years as a software developer using Go, TypeScript, Kotlin, Java, or Python.
- Experience managing GitHub at organizational scale, including Actions workflows, organization policies, OIDC or federated identity integration, and security controls.
- Operational experience with on-call rotations, incident response, postmortems, playbooks, and gamedays.
- 2+ years collaborating with remote teams across geographies and time zones.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, technical communication, documentation, architecture diagramming, and cross-team influence.
- Preferred experience with progressive delivery, canary or blue/green deployments, automated rollback, Prometheus, Grafana, observability, DORA metrics, and AWS serverless patterns.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.
- Annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards may be available in addition to base pay.
Tech Stack
AWSBazelGitHub ActionsGoGradleGrafanaJavaJenkinsKotlinKubernetesMakeMavennpmPrometheusPythonTerraformTypeScriptYarn
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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.