Staff Software Engineer

1 month ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India WARNERMEDIA Full time

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.

Staff Software Engineer (Database Reliability Engineering Team), Bangalore

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 Warner Media'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

Meet Our Team:

The Database Reliability Engineering (DRE) team owns the global, cloud-native (AWS) database infrastructure for the Max and HBO Max platforms. 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.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • You play a key contributor role in the domains of design, implementation, performance tuning, automation, and maintenance of highly available and scalable database systems using AWS database services. You have broad knowledge in each of these foundational areas.
  • Build databases and related automation using software engineering best practices, database fundamentals and principles, and operational and engineering excellence best practices.
  • Demonstrate passion for quality and productivity by use of efficient development techniques, standards, and guidelines.
  • Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply tuning techniques to ensure optimal database efficiency and cost-effectiveness. You will own root cause analysis of database issues and production outages.
  • You partner closely with service teams to optimize database queries, indexes, and schemas for data integrity, security, and compliance within the AWS ecosystem.
  • You ensure uptime and performance at peak workflow hours by assisting with database capacity planning and scaling.
  • You identify, troubleshoot, and resolve database functional and performance issues in production, reviewing logs, source code, and leveraging AWS and SRE operational monitoring tools. You will also work with other teams to avoid recurrence.
  • Partner with SRE and service team engineers, to devise database solutions that satisfy service team needs.
  • Collaborative Leader who helps other engineers and team members to be more productive, sharing knowledge and guides direction for key technical decisions. Provide mentoring to other DRE engineers.
  • Participate in the growth of the DRE practice by sharing knowledge and lessons learned, continually improving best practices, and contributing to methods that will systematically advance DRE technical foundation and service capabilities.
  • Effectively communicate through technical documentation, commented code, and interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams.
  • Contribute to building a vibrant workplace, where teams can thrive, and model the organization's positive, supportive culture of respect and excellence.
  • You offer enhancements to best practices, design and architecture improvements, and as feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or recurring encouragement.

What to Bring:

  • 9 - 13 years of experience working with database software development and platform teams to design, build and implement highly scalable and resilient databases in a cloud-native environment.
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native database technologies in a production environment and familiarity with AWS database services (Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Keyspaces).
  • Expertise with CI/CD pipelines, repeatable self-serve gitops-based deployments, and infrastructure-as-code technologies (CloudFormation, Terraform) and processes.
  • Experience with elements of our greater service tech stack, including containerized Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, performance testing platform and tools, JS, APMs, messaging services, API gateways.
  • Familiarity with elements of our tech stack, including containerized Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, performance testing platform and tools, APMs, messaging services, API gateways, service mesh, repeatable self-serve gitops-based deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code technologies (CloudFormation, Terraform) and processes.
  • Proficiency in functional programming languages (including Python) as well as declarative programming languages (e.g. SQL, MYSQL).
  • You are proficient in database administration for both SQL and NoSQL technologies.
  • Ability to effectively coordinate and collaborate with software engineers, team members, and other internal subject matter experts to successfully leverage and continually improve DRE's tools, processes, and resources.
  • Ability to solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.
  • Ability to communicate frequently and openly with team members, stakeholders, and leadership, in person and through succinct technical documentation.
  • Ability to lead making other engineers and team members more productive, by sharing knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.
  • Aptitude for becoming familiar with new tools and technologies.
  • Ability to lead in a remote and in person environment, participating in SCRUM/agile and other meetings.
  • Proven ability to acquire subject-matter expertise of software systems.

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 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 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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability 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

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