Software Development Engineer - Sre

Job Description

Software Development Engineer III - Site Reliability Engineering

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

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 Warner Media'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 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams are responsible for ensuring these systems stay up and operational. WBD's approach to SRE is proactive vs. reactive. The team focuses on building and supporting prevention systems and processes over incident response. SRE builds systems that assess WBD's resilience risk posture, enable auto-remediation and failover, and partner directly with service development teams to ensure the robustness of their architectures.

We are a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD's future. We need a technical lead 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 III needs to be both a strong individual contributor in coding and a technical mentor within their team for all things SRE.

Roles & Responsibilities:
• You're a senior engineer focusing on reliable system design, load-testing, and fault-injection. You are known for your subject matter expertise in one or more of these engineering specializations
• You are a key influencer in your teams' implementation of SRE capabilities and contribute significantly to local planning activities.
• You have made significant contributions to high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• Ensure uptime and performance at peak workflow hours by assisting with system capacity planning and ensuring appropriate instance type allocation
• You provide mentoring to junior engineers.
• You can describe your design, code, and architectural decisions within your team and local leadership. You embrace constructive feedback from these groups and adapt to align with 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.

What to Bring:
• 9-12 years of software engineering experience. Proficiency in technologies on our stack including containerized Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, messaging services, DB services, API gateways, service mesh, repeatable self-serve gitops-based deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code technologies/processes
• You have contributed to systems operated at large scale with a global footprint
• You have contributed to systems and frameworks that validate the scalability of large-scale systems (load/stress and fault-injection testing).
• You have experience establishing and raising the bar for technical best practices 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 scalability and reliability 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…

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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability 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-rj1z20-3-129-13-201-42 in your application.