Senior Staff Software Developer

Description

Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.

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.

Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.

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.

Every great story has a new beginning

We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. We're a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. Our mission is simple. To be the world's best storytellers with world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

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.

Meet Our Team

Consistency of data submission across each platform is essential to properly understand business impacts and operational performance.  To enable standardized  data collection to power all our first-party data-driven use cases, we are the team building out libraries and tooling that will unify the modeling, collection, formatting and submission of events to our data pipeline. 
 

Roles and Responsibilities

You will join the cross organization effort for data consistency by architecting SDKs that unify multiple forms of data submission across all platforms available for our streaming products.  You will enable engineering teams, operations analysts, and site reliability engineers to make sense of streams of data for millions of concurrent users so we can understand what is going wrong and mitigate those problems before they become widespread outages. You will help us build out the libraries and services that make it easy for engineers to collect data in a consistent way, and work with a wide group of stakeholders. 

The Daily

• Develop cross platform libraries to enable data collection and submission to our data platform
• Design and deliver components of a complex architecture or distributed system
• Be a self-starter that can independently solve complex engineering problems
• Maintain high quality coding standards for yourself and your team
• Proactively seek self-improvement and are adaptable to suggestions and feedback
• Hold yourself and your team to high standards while maintaining friendly, respectful relationships
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write

The Essentials

• BS degree in Computer Science, or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience
• 7+ years of professional development experience using languages such as Java, C, C++, C#, Javascript, Typescript, Golang

• Have a solid understanding of common software data structures and algorithms
• �Be a quick learner that can leverage surrounding resources to solve their problems while helping provide support and mentorship to your peers
• Passionate about problem solving through software with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write
• Seeks self-improvement and is adaptable to suggestions and feedback

The Nice to Haves

• Experience with schema design and data modeling
• Experience working with Kotlin, Swift, Typescript or Brightscript application developement
• Experience working with low-latency, services operating in a 24x7 environment at scale
• Full-stack industry experience, or hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (AWS, Google app engine, Azure, Kubernetes)
• Experience working on VOD streaming products

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, 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 and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at [email protected].