Software Development Engineer - Observability

Job Description

Overview

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands, and franchises across television, film, streaming, and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports, and news assets with Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team:
DTC's many software engineering teams build applications for the web, mobile, tablets, connected TVs, consoles, and other streaming devices. DTC's Observability teams are responsible for unifying all operationally relevant data within WBD's technical ecosystem and turning it into navigable, understandable, and actionable insights for the broader engineering community. They build the systems which ingest, process, retain, meter, analyze, and visualize 100s of terabytes of logs, metrics, distributed traces, and catalog data on a daily basis. These technologists provide solutions to DTC's broader engineering community which helps them more effectively operate web, mobile, tablet, connected TV, console, and streaming devices and services.

We are a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD's future. We need a development leader who is comfortable turning the needs of our engineering community into thoughtful design and architecture, serving as a senior resource for other developers as they build software components. The SDE IV needs to be both a strong individual contributor in coding and a thought leader for the development team.

Responsibilities
• You play a leadership role across the DTC organization. You are known for your subject matter expertise across Observability technology and practice
• You are responsible for maintaining a platform-based mindset, the systems you design must be architecturally sound with a focus on data emission, transmission, and usability by the broader organization
• You are a key influencer in multiple teams' strategies across the Observability domain and provide significant contributions to planning across the teams.
• You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
• You still actively seek input where appropriate and engage your team to inform and share what
you are doing.
• Your team trusts your decisions, designs, and code.
• You provide mentoring to senior engineers.
• You describe your design, code, and architectural decisions to junior engineers, principal engineers, and leadership alike. You embrace constructive feedback from these groups and adapt to align with organizational standards and objectives.
• You offer enhancements to best practices, document, design, and architecture improvements,
and as feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or
recurring encouragement. Other engineers appreciate your feedback.
• You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics,
stack trace etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it.

Qualifications

What to Bring:
• 10+ years, High proficiency and technical leadership with technologies on our stack including Kafka, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, Kubernetes, a variety of cloud data stores, and ETL processes
• You have a proven track record of designing and building systems for scale and velocity capable of transmitting, ingesting, processing, and storing millions of data entries
• You are capable of designing, building, automating, and using operational data platforms.
• You drive best practices and set standards for your team.
• You have acquired subject-matter expertise over one or more production software systems and demonstrated a pattern of shipping high quality feature changes in that or those system(s).
• You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.
• You deliver high-quality results the first time and improve code, documentation, and results with each iteration. Your team trusts your work.

What We Offer:
• A Great Place to work
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles that will be performed in New York City. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $189,980 - $352,820 salary per year.
Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

WBD is an equal opportunity employer. WBD is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.

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