Senior Software Engineer, Warner Bros Discovery
Content Delivery Network
Office located in Chiswick Park Building, London
Entertainment company
Open for applications
Entertainment company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Office located in Chiswick Park Building, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To take the world’s greatest possibilities and make them a reality - creating impact, inspiring imagination, and building connections.
Role
Who you are
- The role requires good problem-solving skills and the ability to work across several teams and partner groups
- We’re looking for candidates who love to learn and can adapt quickly
- At least 5 years of experience within Software Engineering and proficient in one of the following: Golang, Python, Java or Node.js
- Passionate about SRE, DevOps, Automation, and infrastructure platforms
- Must excel with agile and lean development practices and manage multiple priorities and multiple roles
- BS Degree in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or Mathematics or equivalent experience
- Experience with build automation and CI/CD
- Expertise with monitoring or log aggregation tools
- Experience working AWS cloud services
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes
- Expertise in problem solving and analysing global scale systems and critical production service environments
- Strong debugging, testing/validation, and analytics/SQL(AO), skills, Apache,
- Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum) and cross-functional teams
- Understand the mechanical sympathy between software workloads and the demand it places on the underlying hardware
- Verbally and cognitively agile enough to engage in strategy discussions with leadership team members
What the job involves
- The Senior Software Engineer works with our Global Content Delivery teams to deliver exabytes of content for our brands globally
- The Senior Software Engineer has a highly skilled combination of engineering and operations skills and is focused on automating and improving operations
- Your job is to guarantee system reliability, performance, and supportability with a strong engineering emphasis on building autonomous solutions that deliver value to end-users early, often, and fast
- You are central to the reputation and trustworthiness of our services and advocate for engineering best practices
- WBD’s Global Content Delivery team members are responsible for the management and governance of all media delivery infrastructure for Max, D+, CNN, and other WBD brands globally
- You will be involved from the initial design phase of figuring out the right network topology for our clients to the final stages of deploying and setting up hardware, networking, monitoring, alerting, and logging
- Build the orchestration build systems for managing fleets of remotely deployed servers
- WBD’s Global Content Delivery team manages servers globally, which help deliver media to our customers globally for our largest brands
- You will be a core contributor to managing the automation systems that power the control plane for these remote edge sites
- Work in a full stack environment, from the control plane layer, down to physical hardware lifecycles
- Be a key member of the team responsible for the entirety of our entire stack, contributing to the global control plane, to working on new revisions of hardware to deployed to the field
- This team works the full stack from software, networking, operating system, to the hardware and network gear level
- Design, write and deliver software and infrastructure to improve the reliability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of our services
- Bring new technology thinking and lead developers to embrace new tools and innovative solutions to solve business needs
- Guide Engineers to design, develop, and test for reliability, and to automate tasks for applications
- Solve problems relating to mission-critical services and create solutions to prevent problem recurrence, with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions
- Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems
- Engage in service capacity planning, service integration and geo-expansion, software performance analysis and system tuning
- Candidate must be solutions-oriented oriented using rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions, probing all sources for answers
- Conduct on-call duties
- Help troubleshoot incidents to address failure patterns, automate remediation through runbooks, and document application optimisation
- Enable the Cloud, DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Test automation & Monitoring strategies
- Coordinate with the Applications team to satisfy all non-functional project requirements (security, performance, scalability, and resiliency)
- Proven track record building/supporting/scaling a high transactional 24x7 environment
- Collaborate with the Platform Engineering team to build tools to help automate deployments
- Coordinate with relevant teams to build useful tools to support network operations (internal and external)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is an entertainment company formed from the 2022 merger of Warner Bros and Discovery. It is a leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing, and marketing of content, with Warner Bros alone boasting a huge library – more than 100,000 hours of programming – before the companies were joined. WBD’s portfolio includes Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Discovery+, HBO Max, and franchises like “Batman” and “Harry Potter”.
Both of the company’s previous businesses have operated throughout the digitisation of the media space. David Zaslav, CEO of WBD, headed Discovery during its expansion into digital media, to make it a “content company” over a “cable company”. The recent focus for Warner Bros has been on next-gen distribution efforts, expanding the availability of its content across platforms and devices to reach the modern viewer. The new company has plans to migrate to one tech stack, which will require extensive retooling, as well as exploring cost-saving automation opportunities for its operations.
Since the merger, the new giant that is Warner Bros Discovery has had a shaky start, forcing the company to wind down operations and cut back on content, which included the very public scrapping of the “Batgirl” movie. However, it now seems the company may have been ahead of the curve, as a wider trend of cutbacks has been seen from peers in the space. This early move, combined with a hyper-focus on cash generation, seeks to establish WBD as an outperformer in an industry on the downturn.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
David Zaslav
(CEO, not founder)Spent 17 years at NBCUniversal including as President of NBC Cable LLC and NBC Media LLC.
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