Staff Software Engineer

Description :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 Medias premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.Meet Our Team :The Data & Analytics organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and data products vital to WBD, including flagship streaming product Max and non-streaming products such as Films Group, Sports, News and overall WBD eco-system. Our mission is to foster unified analytics and drive data-driven use cases by leveraging a robust multi-tenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely, informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape.As a member of the Tools and Frameworks team you will be helping to develop tools that help our community of developers save time and energy by streamlining engineering processes. As a senior member of the team you will be able to help shape the future of the platform and the way we enable teams across all of WBD to build better applications and experiences faster.Roles & Responsibilities :As a Staff Software Engineer here you are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex data-driven challenges and automate those solutions. Within our organization, youll lead efforts aimed at scaling our existing data offerings and establish the technical strategy for how we can better equip engineers and leaders with Data Platform. Youll build a deep understanding of our digital streaming services and use that knowledge, coupled with your engineering, infrastructure, data, and cloud knowledge, to optimize and evolve how we understand our technical ecosystem. To be successful, youll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent collaboration skills : You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, microservice development, data lake management, monitoring, and supporting production systems. In addition, youll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.Your Role Accountabilities :- Design and lead engineers in constructing highly available enterprise tooling to support engineering teams in developing data intensive products.- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand changing requirements and incorporate them in the roadmap.- Drive the vision for our big data platformWhat to Bring :- Bachelors degree in computer science, information systems, or information technology.- 10+ years of experience working with web applications and microservices.- Enjoying working in an agile environment- Excellent knowledge of web application architecture, experience with design and architecture of high-performance distributed systems a plus- Experience with operations for in production systems- Good understanding of algorithm and data structures- Experience automating, scripting, and streamlining processes for efficiency and accuracy utilizing, SQL, Python, Java, Go etc.- Some experience with AWS with knowledge of S3, EC2, IAM, Security, Lambda, Networking etc.- Familiarity with gen AI tech stack (LLMs, Vector Databases etc.) is a plus.- Ability and experience with the development of processes and procedures, selecting and implementing coding methodologies within your team.- Ability to provide technical documentation and project plans for technical staff members.- Excellent communication and presentation skills.- Excellent organizational and time management skills to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.What We Offer :- A Great Place to work.- Equal opportunity employer- Fast track growth opportunities (ref:hirist.tech)