Software Development Engineer

Job Description

Software Development Engineer IV (Senior Staff)

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

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.

The Legal Bits…
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. $181,797.00 - $337,623.00 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).

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. 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.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gknm10-18-191-21-86-42 in your application.