Senior Software Engineer

Your New Role...

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. 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.

Your Role Accountabilities...

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 hardware revisions 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 reliability, and 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 methodsto 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).

Qualifications and Experience...

The Essentials:

At least 5 years of experience within Software Engineering and proficient in one of the following: Golang, Python, Java or

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 analyzing 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.