Staff Software Engineer

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.

The Job
Warner Bros. Live Streaming Services Seattle seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the engineering department.
As a Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for various initiatives including evaluating new technology, developing and maintaining our game platform, prototyping and building functionality and tools for new and existing live video core and live to VOD systems.

In addition, you will partner with other stakeholders to understand goals and needs. You are continuously assessing all aspects of the products and tools to identify areas for improvement, innovation, and cross-project sharing.

THE DAY-TO-DAY
• Develop and maintain end-to-end platform features.
• Partner with Product Owners and Program Managers to create technical solutions for customer requirements and evaluate * feasibility from both a technical and cost perspective.
• Pair with other team members to develop and deliver platform features.
• Analyze your team's systems, processes, and infrastructure to identify improvements for robust services.
• Lead the mitigation of incidents, assess root causes and determine appropriate long term fixes.
• Participate in the improvement of the team's agile development processes.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to junior team members.
• Utilize container systems (Docker) and container orchestration (e.g. ECS/EKS, Kubernetes).
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Nurture and maintain a culture of peer accountability where the customer, compassion and team development are the focus.

THE ESSENTIALS
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 8+ years of relevant distributed systems experience.
• Back-end knowledge and willingness to work beyond your comfort zone.
• Golang experience is a must.
• Experience working with Video and Live Video systems.
• Knowledge of industry standards (CMAF, HLS, DASH etc)
• Experience working with different live video origination products and CDNs e.g. MSL4, Akamai, Fastly etc.
• Ability to maintain long-term platform level thinking by taking a comprehensive approach while troubleshooting tasks.
• Experience deploying in distributed cloud environments.
• Proven ability to own the development of features from concept to launch.
• Focus on personal and team growth that fosters camaraderie.

Embraces a growth-mindset by continually learning and appropriately applying new techniques, approaches, or technology.

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. $142,800.00 - $265,200.00 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-rn5k53-3-142-249-73-42 in your application.