Warner Bros. Discovery · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$146K/yr - $270K/yr
7+ years expWarner Bros. Discovery is a leading entertainment company known for its iconic content and beloved brands. They are seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to join their Media Supply Chain Engineering team, responsible for building applications and services that power the content supply chain, ensuring high-quality code delivery and mentoring other engineers.
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Responsibilities
You have acquired subject-matter expertise over one or more production software systems and demonstrated a pattern of shipping high quality feature changes in that or those system(s)
You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices. You can lead the design and development of the most complex enhancements involving yourself and other engineers
You have built multiple stable, scalable feature changes that have been successfully shipped to customers in production
Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a role model to other teams. Your software contributions in production are the model for highly available, low latency, and efficient software. Your documentation in code, technical designs, and operations provide clarity to any engineer interacting with your software or its code
You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers
You are an effective communicator as exemplified by your technical documentation, and your interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams. You can effectively represent the technical decisions from your team to senior stakeholders
Qualification
Required
BS in Computer Science or related field
7+ years of technical experience as software developer, or related role
Extensive experience in development on cloud-based infrastructure like AWS
Extensive experience developing in at least one of the programming languages: Python, Java or Go
Hands-on experience in implementing microservices, RESTful APIs, and event driven architectures
Extensive experience with mission critical, 24x7, Tier-1 services
Extensive experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems
Extensive experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services
Mastery of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Product development experience in consumer-focused companies
Excellent Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis
Ability to work on a diverse team
Must have the legal right to work in the United States
Preferred
Experience with video streaming, codecs, video delivery and broadcast workflows
Master's degree or PhD in computer science or equivalent
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
An employee wellness program
Life and disability insurance
A retirement savings plan
Paid holidays and sick time
Vacation
Company
Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$17.5BKey Investors
JP Morgan
2025-12-05Acquired
2025-06-09Post Ipo Debt· $17.5B
2005-07-15IPO
Leadership Team
David Zaslav
President and CEO
Mark Thompson
CEO
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