Senior Software Engineer

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the
storytellers
bringing our characters to life, the
creators
bringing them to your living rooms and the
dreamers
creating what's next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world's most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.

Your New Role...

The Direct to Consumer (DTC) Group is a technology company within Warner Bros Discovery. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our network's brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, content catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and much more. We build for connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of WBD owned networks (Max, Discovery, Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, Discovery Play, and many more). This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD's future.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer within the DTC Content Experience Platform. The team is focused on handling the metadata for the global content catalog.

We are responsible for indexing the metadata and implementing an API that makes it searchable for the different consumers. We ensure all client applications worldwide have seamless access to the latest metadata for various assets, including movies, series, and live sports events.

The ideal candidate:

• Has experience with high-performance, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• Drives best practices and sets standards for the team.
• Actively contributes to architectural discussions and team meetings.
• Shows good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
• Is an advocate for data-driven decision-making and is curious about solving complex technical challenges on a large scale.
• Takes ownership of their work and consistently delivers results in a fast-paced environment.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Lead the design and development of major functional changes to new or existing services owned by different teams.
• Troubleshoot a production issue to identify the root cause and, based on them, derive learnings to improve both development processes and system design.
• Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and positively influence the team.

Qualifications and Experience...

• Proficient in Java or other JVM languages.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, micro-service-based architectures, and asynchronized communication (e.g., using gRPC and Kafka).
• Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty.
• Practical knowledge of persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Caffeine.
• Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive programming styles such as Spring WebFlux or Vert.x.
• Experience designing high-performance, low-latency APIs for real time services.
• Experience with distributed tracing (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin).
• Experience with GitOps, Terraform, ArgoCD, or Helm for infrastructure as code.

​Additional Information

On June 9, 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies, Warner Bros. and Discovery Global, with an expected completion in mid-2026. For more details, including leadership appointments and information on individual brands, please visit our newsroom here. Although you will be hired by Warner Bros. Discovery, upon the planned separation in 2026, your employment likely will transition to Warner Bros. During this period of transformation, you'll have an exciting opportunity to lay the foundation at one of the world's premier entertainment brands. 

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at

 
along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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