Software Engineer, Warner Bros Discovery
NodeJS
Entertainment company
Job no longer available
Entertainment company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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
- At least 2-3 years of experience within a similar back-end or full-stack position. Must be proficient with Node.js and/or React
- Experience in backend software development, building microservices, event-driven architectures/solutions
- Demonstrated ability to use common industry tools for software development including but not limited to IDEs, build and continuous integration, source control management, code review tools, data storage services, and cloud infrastructure, and you can build software in a professional team environment delivered to production using these tools
- Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, design patterns, building maintainable code, performance)
- Familiarity with a range of database technologies, encompassing both SQL and NoSQL options
- Passion for sports is highly desirable
- Experience building, operating, and owning services. Implementing operational excellence mechanisms including alerting, metrics, and logging using Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty
- DevOps experience (AWS preferred) architecting, and configuring cloud technology stacks (Network Security, API Gateways, VPCs, CDNs, Kafka/MKS, Kubernetes, EKS, Jenkins configuration, CI/CD configurations etc., is a plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for Senior Software Engineers to join our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Content and Ad Platform team
- This position sits within a team that is responsible for building state-of-the-art services which power all WBD’s live events across linear, including TNT Sports channels, with plans to extend our coverage to support other brands within the WBD portfolio
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing scalable back-end architecture and services
- The successful candidate will have a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production
- Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team
- You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions
- You provide mentoring to other engineers
- Design, implement, and maintain services that power all our live events on linear and OTT
- Prioritise scalability, extensibility, reliability, and high performance in the development of the services
- Work closely with technical leadership and fellow engineers on technical design and architecture
- Collaborate across multiple backend and frontend teams to ensure cohesive and efficient system development
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and engineering excellence
- Actively engage in code reviews, provide constructive feedback to peers, and participate in knowledge-sharing initiatives
- Investigate and troubleshoot production issues by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc. to pinpoint specific issues and resolve them
- Identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design
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 & President)Spent 17 years at NBCUniversal including as President of NBC Cable LLC and NBC Media LLC.
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