Senior Software Engineer

• Build high-performance, stable, and scalable systems deployed in production.
• Always champion engineering and operational excellence.
• Drive best practices and set standards within the team.
• Influence the team’s strategy and contribute significantly to planning.
• Exercise good judgment when balancing immediate and long-term business needs.
• Creatively think and innovate to deliver delightful experiences for customers.
• Always demonstrate data-driven decision-making and continuously seek solutions to challenging problems.
• Hold strong opinions while remaining open to other perspectives.
• Consistently deliver results, with quality, in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborate with peers, share knowledge, and contribute to technical decisions.
• Lead major functional changes in existing or new software systems.
• Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and improve processes.
• Document code, designs, and processes for clarity.
• Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices.
• Establish best practices and quality standards within the team.
• Mentor junior engineers and positively influence the team.

What to Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 – 8 years of experience as a software developer.
• Strong proficiency in Java (8+) with experience building scalable, cloud-native, microservices-based systems.
• Experience in building and operating global-scale large platform services in non-prod and prod environments.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones.
• Strong CS fundamentals; strong technical understanding of Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, REST/gRPC communication patterns, caching solutions, messaging services, DB services, API gateways, service mesh, and infrastructure-as-code technologies/processes.
• Direct experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, or other).
• Experience establishing and improving data-driven infrastructure and service KPIs such as performance, scale, availability, reliability, security.
• A strong understanding of security best practices and a high bar for protecting customer data.
• Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty.
• Experience with persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, and Caffeine
• Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of programming. Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Vert.x, Node.js.
• Operational Experience to run services globally; on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with emphasis on technical documentation.

What We Offer:

• A Great Place to work.
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities

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 www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ 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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