Senior Software Developer

Job Description

Warner Bros. Discovery's DTC technology and product organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web and consoles. As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery's continued growth, building world-class products from the ground-up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more.

Meet Our Team

We are the team responsible for WBD's in-house real user monitoring (RUM) solution providing end-to-end visibility into the performance and health of user journeys in near-real time. Identifying, remediating, and preventing customer quality of experience issues becomes a big data problem when you consider the number of users, the number of actions they are taking, and the number of handoffs in the experience.

Roles and Responsibilities

You will enable engineering teams, operations analysts, and site reliability engineers to make sense of streams of data for millions of concurrent users so we can understand what is going wrong and mitigate those problems before they become widespread outages. You will help us build out applications, services, and event stream processing pipelines that support the monitoring and automated mitigation of issues in our 24/7 environment. Specifically:
• Design and implement data processing pipelines that create business metrics from large amounts of application health and performance event data
• Design and implement new storage related solutions to support data monitoring and analytics visualizations
• Design and implement internal tools and services to help engineers debug customer-impacting issues
• Grow your ability to design, implement, and own critical features of a product used by millions of customers
• Create and evaluate technical approaches with your engineering peers
• Use data to solve real world problems and improve customer experience
• Have access to experienced engineers as mentors and supporters

What to Bring
• BS degree in Computer Science, or a related field with equivalent experience
• 4+ years professional software engineering experience
• Strong experience with Java 8 or higher preferred (or an equivalent programming language)
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (AWS, Google cloud, Azure)
• Have a solid understanding of common software data structures and algorithms
• Be a quick learner that can leverage surrounding resources to solve their problems while helping others solve theirs
• Passionate about problem solving through software with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you ship
• Seeks self-improvement and is adaptable to suggestions and feedback

Nice to Have
• Experience working on media streaming products
• Experience working with low-latency services operating in a 24x7 environment at scale
• End to end experience supporting stream and batch processing of high scale data pipelines
• Experience with in-stream data processing using tools such as Flink, Kafka, Spark
• Full-stack industry experience, or hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology, especially native client applications
• Experience with batch data processing using tools such as SQL, Snowflake, Hadoop
• Experience with Time Series Databases (like AWS Timestream or Prometheus )
• Experience with observability solutions and processes that support products in near-real time at scale

If you're a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmyp42-18-188-29-0-42 in your application.