Staff Software Engineer - Content Experience Platform

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.

Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world’s most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.

Your New Role...

The Direct to Consumer (DTC) Group is a technology company within Warner Bros Discovery. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our network’s brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, content catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and much more. We enable performant streaming experiences across connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of WBD owned streaming services (HBO Max, Discovery+, CNN, and others). This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD’s future.

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer within the DTC Content Experience Platform. The team is responsible for aggregating, enabling, and serving the personalized Content Discovery experience within our DTC streaming video platforms through our Experience Services APIs. We ensure all client applications worldwide have seamless access to the latest and relevant content metadata, personalized browse experiences and curations, and presentational elements to deliver a best-in-class content discovery experience to our hundreds of millions of streaming users globally across our different streaming service platforms.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Shape the long-term technical direction of major workstreams in close partnership with Engineering peers, Product Managers, Technical Program Managers, and Designers. 
• Lead system design and development of large, complex features and infrastructure, either in new domains or across multiple existing systems.
• Partner with other technical leaders to drive successful end-to-end delivery, from discovery and planning through execution and operations.
• Support the growth and development of engineers in your workstreams through coaching, design collaboration, and fostering technical excellence.
• Define and uphold standards for code quality, operational excellence, and reliable delivery across teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define MVPs, milestones, and product requirements that align engineering efforts with business outcomes.
• Drive architectural decisions that enable scalability, reliability, and adaptability for the future.
• Identify and address gaps, bottlenecks, or misalignments—working proactively to ensure long-term success for your team and the organization.

Qualifications And Experience...

• At least 8 years of experience with deep expertise in Java or other JVM-based languages, including advanced language features, performance tuning, and designing systems for scale and reliability.
• Extensive experience building and operating cloud-native applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS, including architecture design and production deployment.
• Strong command of distributed systems, microservice architectures, and synchronous /asynchronous communication patterns using technologies like gRPC and Kafka.
• Proven ability to design and evolve high-performance, low-latency APIs and backend systems that serve real-time, high-throughput workloads.
• Practical and architectural-level experience with persistence and caching technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Caffeine, including data modeling and performance optimization.
• Deep understanding of observability and tracing, with experience driving adoption of tools like OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or Zipkin to improve system transparency and incident response.
• Experience defining and scaling infrastructure as code practices using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and GitOps workflows.
• Ability to establish robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems using tools such as Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, and PagerDuty, and ensure teams operate systems with confidence.
• Familiarity with non-blocking, asynchronous, and reactive programming paradigms, including frameworks like Spring WebFlux or Vert.x, and when to apply them effectively.
• Comfortable evaluating, introducing, and scaling technical choices across multiple teams to drive engineering velocity and system robustness.

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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.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. 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.

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