Senior Staff Software Engineer

Who We Are :

When we say, the stuff dreams are made of, were not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBDs 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 whats 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.

Senior Staff Engineer Sports Tech 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 Medias premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

Meet Our Team :

WBD Sports encompasses a wide range of sports brands and channels, reaching over 130 million people monthly in more than 200 markets and 20+ languages.

Key brands include Bleacher Report, Eurosport and TNT Sports. WBD Sports offers a comprehensive coverage of major sports events, like the Olympics in Europe, tennis Grand Slams and road cycling Grand Tours (e.g. Tour de France) across various platforms including TV and streaming services like Max and Discovery+.

Additionally, it manages and promotes 55 global events annually. TNT Sports UK features exclusive live sports such as the Premier League and UEFA Champions League.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key member of the WBD Sports team, responsible for building and maintaining systems supporting Warner Bros. Discoverys family of Sports products/brands, including Eurosport, NCAA/MML, and Bleacher Report.

- You will work closely with product/project managers, users, development staff, and senior leadership to implement designs, develop and deploy fan-facing solutions.

- Drive strategic architecture investments across the WBD Sports platform, taking a function-wide view of technical solutions and their long-term implications.

- Independently map business and product needs to engineering projects, driving initiatives from conception through completion with minimal oversight.

- Serve as a key influencer in sports platform strategy, contributing significantly to both tactical execution and long-term technical vision.

- Ensure implementation of comprehensive test coverage, resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational excellence practices across Sports products and systems.

- Demonstrate excellent ability to document technical solutions and articulate them to both business and technical audiences.

- Establish best practices and set exemplary coding standards for your team.

- Monitor, review, and coach developer performance; conduct regular performance appraisals and provide disciplinary actions

- Document technical solutions and articulate them to both business and technical audiences

- Present, communicate, and advocate engineering perspectives

- Participate in Agile ceremonies and show ownership of work throughout the sprint process

- Build and maintain highly available, low-latency systems that successfully serve sports content to customers in production environments.

- Integrate service health, monitoring, alerting and documentation capabilities in parallel to your software development deliverables.

- Coach and mentor engineers up to Senior Software Engineer level, providing input to leadership on team development needs and growth opportunities.

What To Bring

- 13 - 16 years, High proficiency and technical leadership with technologies on our stack including NodeJS, and GraphQL

- Backend Node.js (with 10+ years of experience)

- GraphQL (with 8+ years of experience)

- AWS (Lambda/S3/ECS/RDS) / Infrastructure as code

- Redis

- PostgreSQL

- Unit, Functional Testing & TDD

- Typescript

- Fluent in English

Bonus Skills :

- Terraform

- Kafka

- CI/CD

- DynamoDB

- React.js

- Elixir

- RUST

Technical Environment :

- Tech Stack: TypeScript, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS services

- Development Practices: TDD, pair programming, code reviews, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)

- Deployment: Automated using Terraform/Github Actions on AWS

- Technologies Used: API portals (API Gateway, CloudFront, WAF), serverless technologies (Lambda), storage and database systems (Aurora, S3), messaging systems (SNS, SQS), Kafka

- Agile Practices: Dailies, story detailing, planning, retrospectives

What We Offer

- A Great Place to work

- Equal opportunity employer

- Fast track growth opportunities