Senior Software Developer

Job Description

The Daily
• Work primarily in modern vanilla JavaScript, Typescript, and Python using AWS
services, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis and mentor peers in those
languages and tools.
• Maintain Production and Lower environment infrastructure such as applying
security patches and upgrading services.
• Work primarily in AWS services such as RDS Aurora Postgres, OpenSearch,
ECS, SQS and Elastic Cache Redis.
• Responsible for owning, implementing, developing, and maintaining complete
high-priority features with thorough testing
• Work with a cross functional team in an agile environment, and contributing
to Scrum, Planning, Retros, and Demos
• Support others on your team through code reviews, pairing, desk checks, and
collaboration.
• Take ownership of tasks to ensure timely delivery by collaborating effectively across teams and proactively communicating with team members.
The Essentials
• Understand engineering best practices, design patterns, reviews, testing and
alerting.
• Familiarity with and experience developing Clay CMS and Kiln editing interface components.
• Experience developing and maintaining custom packages for internal data migration and maintenance tasks.
• Experience mapping and migrating data.
• Comfortable working on international web entities including experience with RTL localization.
• Understanding of on-demand and streaming video display.
• Proficient on the command line in concert with Git, Docker, and AWS.
• Extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of setting up Datadog alerts and configuring metrics.
• Integration testing experience.
• Excited to learn and ready to take on new challenges.
• Excellent communicator with your team members and peers.
• Excited to add positively to the culture of CNN, both from an interpersonal
level and from a code improvement standpoint.
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The Nice to Have
• Advanced Experience with AWS services or other Cloud Platforms
• Knowledge of relational databases, SQL, and NoSQL
• A|B testing and consumer testing platform experience
• Knowledge of Fastly edge cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of Operations, CI/CD, DevOps, with exposure to escalation.

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 Discovery Global. During this period of transformation, you'll have an exciting opportunity to lay the foundation at one of the world's premier entertainment brands.
This is a newly created position.

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, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-36v7on-216-73-216-170-42 in your application.