Senior Software Developer

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of. Who We Are

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Software development teams in WBD’s Direct-to-consumer (DTC) division build and deliver applications and services powering the customer experience of products such as HBOMax, which run on connected TVs, set‑top boxes, smartphones, tablets, consoles, PCs, and other streaming devices.

Operational Engineering (Openg) teams play a critical role in ensuring these streaming products and services run smoothly and efficiently  specialized teams focus on areas such as Infrastructure and Cluster Management, Release and Development Processes, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Operational Excellence, and Observability.

The ideal candidate has a passion for technology. You likely have been a software developer in your past developing features for customers in either a customer‑facing application or backend service. However, during your tenure, you have found interest in serving your fellow software developers through innovative platforms, tools, services, and processes that help them be productive. You also have amazing skills that allow you to take requirements to produce scalable, reliable, and easy to understand architecture.

Additionally, you are astute in taking an architectural design and performing a work breakdown for your team so that your team can deliver value each sprint. Lastly you are a mentor to your fellow software developers helping each person grow. You do this by being a role model within the team.

As part of the Operational Engineering organization, you’ll use software to tackle data challenges and automate solutions. You’ll expand our operational data capabilities and define how we provide developers and leaders with operational intelligence. By understanding our streaming service, you’ll use your software architectural, infrastructure, data, and cloud expertise to optimize our technical ecosystem. You’ll need to be deeply technical and collaborative.

Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code, data pipelines, site reliability engineering, Dev Ops, and data lake management is desired. Strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting skills are also needed. The ideal candidate is a creative thinker, passionate about technology, and driven to innovate. They should demonstrate data‑driven decision‑making, curiosity, and a love for solving complex challenges. If you enjoy problem‑solving at scale, building scalable software to automate infrastructure, troubleshooting, and are technically proficient, this is the role for you.

• Observability & Metrics
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Release Engineering (CI/CD Tools)
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Operational Excellence

• You work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in‑depth evaluation of variable factors. You play a leading role on the team designing and developing major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones.
• You create functional‑level impact and deliver more complex functional changes. You implement activities that generally impact multiple components, processes, your own work, and other units, teams, and projects.
• You design components and complex architectures while solving business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software development best practices. You lead the design and development of the most complex enhancements.
• You build multiple stable, scalable feature changes that…