Senior Software Engineer, Warner Bros Discovery
Content & Experience Tooling
$119.7-222.3k
Office located in Park Avenue South, New York
Entertainment company
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Entertainment company
1001+ employees
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$119.7-222.3k
Office located in Park Avenue South, New York
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
- Brings experience building and operating high-performance, scalable systems in production environments, with a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions to customers
- Leads by example, driving engineering best practices and helping establish standards that elevate the team’s overall quality and productivity
- Plays a key role in shaping team strategy, actively contributing to technical planning, roadmap development, and cross-functional alignment
- Demonstrates strong judgment in making trade-offs between short-term gains and long-term goals, balancing speed with sustainability
- Is data-driven and intellectually curious, approaching complex technical challenges with a problem-solving mindset and a passion for scale
- Takes full ownership of their work, consistently delivering results in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the DTC Content & Experience Tooling team
- This team plays a critical role in developing the internal tools and systems that support the Personalization and Merchandising organizations
- Our team is responsible for building and maintaining tools used across HBO Max and Discovery+, including:
- Content Promotion
- Site Configuration (CMS) and Experience Previewing
- Catalog Visualization
- As a team of full-stack engineers, we focus on streamlining merchandising workflows and enabling seamless integrations with personalization platforms
- We value simplicity, scalability, and developer-friendly solutions that empower our internal stakeholders
- You'll act as a collaborative technical leader, helping other engineers and team members be more productive through support and guidance
- Lead the design and development of major features or architectural changes across multiple workstreams—both enhancing existing systems and building new ones
- Troubleshoot production issues effectively, identify root causes, and drive post-mortem learnings to improve development processes and system reliability
- Provide technical guidance on design, coding standards, and operational best practices to ensure long-term scalability and maintainability
- Mentor and coach engineers, supporting their growth and enabling them to deliver high-quality software solutions
- Measure your success not just by personal output, but by the positive impact you have on the team and overall engineering effectiveness
- Proficiency in Java or other JVM languages (e.g., Kotlin)
- Experience with containerization and cloud infrastructure, including Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
- Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks such as React and Node.js
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures, including asynchronous communication via gRPC or Kafka
- Practical experience with databases and caching technologies, including PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, and Caffeine
- Ability to implement robust monitoring and observability, using tools such as Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, and PagerDuty.
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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