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　　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.

　　WB Games Boston seeks an experienced software engineer to work on our game server platform supporting both Game of Thrones: Conquest and future titles.

　　This position can support fully remote work, but as our studio is based on the east-coast, availability in our core hours of 11am-5pm ET is preferred.

　　The team at WB Games Boston is committed to supporting a diverse team of people and encourages you to still apply if you believe you would make a great contribution to the team but are concerned you may not meet every requirement.

　　What We Do

　　Based on the award-winning HBO series, Game of Thrones: Conquest™ is a free-to-play strategy game that puts players at the head of their own powerful House, with the ultimate goal of claiming the Iron Throne. Build your great house, raise your army, conquer iconic Seats of Power, and rule the Seven Kingdoms.

　　Our Game Quality team is responsible for the underlying technology used to build and run our studio's games. Our server-authoritative games are run in the cloud, and in this position you will play a key role in providing the platform that facilitates great developer experience and enables our players to always have a reliable experience in our games.

　　What Part You'll Play

　　Design, architect, break down, and implement solutions for platform features and improving developer experience

　　Work with developers, feature owners, and producers to find solutions and optimizations to their processes and deliver value to the team

　　Assist in the architecture and implementation of our most complex game systems, those that require the best partnership between delivering on business goals and delivering solutions that are scalable, reliable, and performant.

　　Help identify and articulate technical challenges and risks along with proposed solutions

　　Innovate and iterate on processes, systems, standards, game designs, and technology

　　Participate in an on-call rotation, helping keep our live products available under rare problematic circumstances

　　Participate in code reviews and ensure the technical designs of systems meet team standards

　　Mentor other engineers and help them grow their technical skills

　　What You Bring

　　7+ years of software development experience in Golang or another object-oriented language

　　Experience with distributed and cloud based architectures - preferably AWS

　　Strong knowledge of common data structures and software design practices

　　A passion for automating solutions to recurrent problems or manual work in the software development lifecycle

　　An understanding of DevOps and SRE best practices

　　Clear, concise, and transparent communication skills - both written and verbal

　　Ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders and employ a customer focused approach to your work

　　Ability to break down complex problems and explain them to stakeholders or less experienced engineers

　　A growth mindset, an attention to detail, and a willingness to learn and take feedback

　　Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

　　Nice to Have

　　Experience building asynchronous or synchronous multiplayer games

　　Experience with containerization and deployment technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)

　　Experience building or managing continuous integration and deployment pipelines (Jenkins, Drone, etc)

　　Experience implementing gRPC and RESTful services

　　Experience working with microservices

　　Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL

　　Experience playing 4X strategy mobile games

　　Familiarity with the Game of Thrones television series and/or series of books

　　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.

　　The Legal Bits...

　　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, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status 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 [email protected].