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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.

　　Staff Software Engineer - Backend Development ( MSC 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 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:

　　The Rights Systems Engineering team builds applications and services that manage contractual rights of Warner Bros. Discovery’s television, film, and sports portfolios. A key component of the Warner Bros. Discovery global content supply chain, rights systems ensure that the company maximizes content utilization while respecting contractual limits. We’re looking for a developer who can help lead our growing team in Bangalore. We need a development leader who is comfortable turning product requirements into thoughtful design and architecture, serving as a senior resource for other developers as they build software components. The Staff Software Engineer needs to be both a strong individual contributor in coding and a thought leader for the development team in Bangalore.

　　Roles & Responsibilities:

　　You play a leadership role in your area. You are known for your subject matter expertise in one or more software engineering specialization.

　　You have a platform-wide view of the solutions that you build, and you consistently think in terms of architecture

　　You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.

　　You have built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.

　　You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.

　　You still actively seek input where appropriate and engage your team to inform and share what you are doing.

　　Your team trusts your decisions, designs, and code.

　　You provide mentoring to other engineers.

　　You can describe and defend your design and code decisions to other engineers, embrace constructive feedback, and adapt your approach to align with team and company standards and objectives.

　　You offer enhancements to best practices, document, design, and architecture improvements, and as feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or recurring encouragement. Other engineers appreciate your feedback.

　　You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it.

　　What to Bring:

　　Minimum of 9 - 13 years of experience developing Proficient in at least one backend programming language .

　　You are familiar in Reactive programming, asynchronous, non-blocking backend engineering languages like Java, Go, Node JS, etc.

　　Also familiar with Spring/Express framework (or any other Java frameworks), writing highly scalable engineering backend services and messaging services like Kafka, SQS and others.

　　Experience with one or more of: RDS, PostgreSQL and MySQL, Caching solutions (such as Redis and Guava), etc.

　　Knowledge of, and professional experience with most AWS services, and deeper knowledge of EC2, S3 and CloudWatch.

　　Usage and understanding of Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with Terraform or similar technologies is a plus.

　　Strong computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.

　　Ability to drive best practices and establish standards for your team.

　　Experience collaborating in hybrid remote/in-office teams across multiple regions and time zones.

　　Experience leading an OTT application is a strong plus.

　　A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent work 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 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, 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 [email protected].