Sr Software Engineer

Job Description

Senior, Software Engineer- New York City

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, 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:

We are not a team of traditional ''on-prem DBAs.'' Deep knowledge of databases is a core competency for our engineers, but we take inspiration from the Reliability Engineering discipline and we invest significantly in cloud automation. Our ideal candidate combines database skills with cloud knowledge, software engineering expertise, and operational excellence. If you are passionate about building and owning things that are real, tangible, and essential to the business, look no further.

Roles & Responsibilities:
• You play a leadership role in your area. You are known for your subject matter expertise in one or more software engineering specializations
• You have a platform-wide view of the solutions that you build, and you consistently think in terms of architecture
• You are a key influencer in your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.
• You have built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• You show good judgement 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 other engineers.
• You are able to describe and defend your design and code decisions to other engineers, embrace constructive feedback, and adapt your approach to align with team and company 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:
• 8- 12 years, High proficiency and technical leadership with technologies on our stack including JS, Android, RDK, Linux and similar STB operating systems.
• 5+ years experience with database technologies, or strong familiarity and demonstrated ability to become expert
• Specific experience with Aurora Postgres, Cassandra, Dynamo DB, Mongo, MySQL, Elasticache Redis
• 2+ years of experience working in public or private cloud environments, with preference for AWS
• You drive best practices and set standards for your team.
• 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. $117,600.00 - $218,400.00 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@warnermedia.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnyk61-216-73-216-0-42 in your application.