Manager, Software Engineering

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.

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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 Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

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Meet Our Team:

The Global Localization Platform team is responsible for an automated string management platform that transforms how we handle user-facing text across all our products, as well as the tools and tooling components used to manage localizations through self-service within our internal suite of tools called Studio. This platform significantly boosts the productivity of Copywriters and Translation Operations, while improving the workflow for development teams that integrate language strings. By automating string collection, translation and deployment, the team ensures higher-quality English and translated strings are delivered faster and more consistently. In short, our team's work underpins the localization efforts that make Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming products truly global.

Roles & Responsibilities:

We are hiring a Software Development Manager to lead the Global Localization Platform team in Bangalore, India. In this role:

• You will guide the development of core services that power localization and global string management across our streaming platforms.

• You will contribute to the technical vision, shaping the team's structure in alignment with the Director, scaling this platform globally, ensuring that our systems meet the high standards of quality, performance and reliability our users expect.

• You are an experienced engineering leader who balances strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

• You champion a strong culture of learning, inclusion and accountability.

• You bring deep technical knowledge across software engineering and systems architecture and are capable of diving into details when needed, whether reviewing code, analyzing system behavior, or guiding architectural decisions.

• You are passionate about mentoring and growing both engineers and other leaders and you lead through influence and clarity, not hierarchy.

• You communicate effectively across technical and business audiences, translating complex ideas into clear plans and decisions.

• You help teams make good trade-offs by weighing technical risk, delivery timelines and long-term sustainability.

• You are a steward of our engineering culture, someone who helps align cross-functional groups, improves processes and advocates for the needs of our customers at every level of decision-making.

• You bring a company-first mindset, thinking not just about what's best for your teams, but for the broader organization.

• Whether building new capabilities, scaling your teams, or solving thorny architectural challenges, you lead with empathy, data and clarity.

• Partner with the engineering Director to refine and execute long-term goals and roadmaps for the Global Localization Platform, aligning efforts with global WBD streaming initiatives across platforms such as HBO Max, Discovery+, CNN and Bleacher Report.

• Build, scale and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Guide team structure, hiring decisions, onboarding and retention. Coach individual contributors, helping them grow in technical depth and ownership.

• Stay technically involved by diving deep into architectural discussions, reviewing designs and facilitating tradeoff decisions. You support teams in evaluating when to build new vs. extend existing services, with an emphasis on scalable, observable and resilient systems.

• Ensure your teams build production-grade services with strong focus on testability, performance, CI/CD, observability and fault tolerance. Drive standards around alerting, metrics, runbooks and incident response.

• Work closely with product, program management and other engineering leads to ensure timely delivery of features, infrastructure and cross-cutting initiatives. Facilitate alignment across teams and manage interdependencies, balancing speed, quality and scope.

• Cultivate a high-trust, inclusive and empowering engineering culture. Model psychological safety, open feedback and knowledge sharing. Take an active role in creating a space where engineers at all levels feel heard, valued and motivated to do their best work.

• Implement and improve team rituals and agile practices. Track progress, proactively remove blockers and support iterative delivery of complex, multi-quarter efforts. Balance tactical execution with long-term platform health and strategic goals.

• Represent the team in org planning. Clearly communicate priorities, progress and risks to stakeholders, adapting message based on technical depth. Contribute to discussions with peers, manager and stakeholders.

What to Bring:

• years of software engineering experience - Fullstack , including at least 3 years in engineering leadership, managing a team, potentially organized into pods.

• Proven experience leading distributed teams and complex software platforms in a fast-paced product organization.

• Deep technical understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices and distributed systems, ideally with experience in , Java and React/TypeScript stacks.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, EventBridge, S3, Step Functions, CloudWatch), CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and observability tooling (Prometheus, Kibana, PagerDuty).

• Strong ability to translate product vision into technical execution, balance short-term and long-term needs and make pragmatic architectural trade-offs.

• Demonstrated success in building inclusive, diverse teams and mentoring engineers toward sustained career growth.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills — able to clearly explain complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong alignment with customer needs and business goals. You build with empathy for both internal tool users and external global audiences.

• Prior experience with localization systems, translation workflows, or multi-language content management is highly desirable.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

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 a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. 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.

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