Staff Software Engineer

3 weeks ago

Bangalore Metropolitan Area, India Warner Bros. Discovery Full time

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 www.wbd.com


Meet Our Team:

As a platform engineering in the Asynchronous Messaging Services team (AMS) you'll be part of the larger Cloud Engineering group who’s responsible for building a truly global, self-service cloud platform (PaaS) to enable Global Tech’s growing number of engineering teams to build, deploy, run and operate their services in a fully autonomous fashion.


Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Your role will focus on leading the development efforts of the Kafka-as-a-Service platform on top of Confluent Cloud.
  • You will help drive technical decision-making, particularly regarding operations and the platform's architectural direction.
  • You’ll help solve problems related to building a global Kafka architecture considering scalability, replication, schema registries and self-service IaC workflows to solve for different use cases such as high traffic telemetry (logs & metrics), business critical events and data processing.
  • As an expert in your area, you will help set the tone for how your team operates. You’ll emphasize modern, rigorous software development practices that emphasize testability, repeatability, and self-service automation.
  • You’ll conduct code reviews and mentor more junior developers. You’ll openly collaborate with other teams’ leads and help raise the bar of engineering excellence across the entire organization.


What to Bring:

  • Bachelor’s degree with 9 – 13 years of experience in mix of Software Development & DevOps. You bring passion and enthusiasm to your engineering team. You have a track record of shipping quality code to production on a frequent and consistent basis. You thrive under minimal supervision with the ability to self-motivate and self-organize within the organizational structure. You have experience running production infrastructure that supports multiple systems in a scalable, stable, and performant manner. You measure everything, make decisions based on data, are consumer-obsessed, and take immense pride in your work.
  • The ideal candidate for this role will have a wide breadth of experience across the entire software stack, as well as deep subject matter expertise in at least one technology from each of the following groups:
  • Operating Kafka at scale (we use Confluent Cloud)- Mandatory
  • Cloud Infrastructure Automation (AWS strongly preferred with Terraform)
  • Database design (e.g. Postgres, NoSQL, etc)
  • Data Processing (e.g. Hadoop, Big Table, Spark, Redshift)
  • Software Development:
  • Distributed Systems Development (e.g. asynchronous communication patterns, consensus algorithms, distributed transactions)
  • Programming (e.g. Go-lang, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Ruby, etc)
  • Event Driven Architecture & Streaming Frameworks (e.g. Kafka Streams)


Your Technical Know-How

  • In addition, your technical expertise should match well to the following:
  • Experience leading the development of large-scale projects, e.g. breaking down tasks, delegating work, assisting in the creation of roadmaps and work back plans
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems in Kubernetes
  • Hands-on experience with multiple IaC tools
  • Experience with some of the frameworks and tools our development teams use day to day (i.e Spring Boot, Kafka Streams)
  • Experience with the development and operation of high throughput, low-latency systems
  • Hands-on experience with automating development workflow pipelines (CI/CD)
  • Operational experience (i.e. on-call rotation, incident response)
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation (including diagramming)
  • Strong CS fundamentals


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 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 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 recruitadmin@wbd.com.

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