Software Engineer II - Database Engineer - Database Reliability Engineering Team
Software Engineer II - Database Engineer - Database Reliability Engineering Team
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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 were not just referring to the world of wizards dragons and superheroes or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBDs 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 whats 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.
Software Engineer II (Database Reliability Engineering Team) Bangalore
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery a premier global media and entertainment company offers audiences the worlds most differentiated and complete portfolio of content brands and franchises across television film streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Medias premium entertainment sports and news assets with Warner Bros Discoverys leading nonfiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information please visit
Meet Our Team:
The Database Reliability Engineering (DRE) team owns the global cloudnative (AWS) database infrastructure for the Max and HBO Max platforms. We are not a team of traditional onprem DBAs. Deep knowledge of databases is a core competency for our engineers but we take inspiration from the Reliability Engineering discipline and we invest significantly in cloud automation. Our ideal candidate combines database skills with cloud knowledge software engineering expertise and operational excellence.
Roles & Responsibilities:
You have a platformwide view of the solutions that you build and you consistently think in terms of architecture.
You have built multiple highperformance stable scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
You show good judgement making tradeoffs between immediate and longterm business needs.
You still actively seek input where appropriate and engage your team to inform and share what you are doing.
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.
You can partner with SRE and service team engineers to devise database solutions that satisfy service team needs.
Contribute to building a vibrant workplace where teams can thrive and model the organizations positive supportive culture of respect and excellence.
What to Bring:
35 years of handson experience and technical leadership with cloudnative database technologies in a production environment and familiarity with AWS database services (Aurora Postgres DynamoDB ElastiCache Keyspaces).
2 years of experience working in public or private cloud environments with preference for AWS.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines repeatable selfserve gitopsbased deployments and infrastructureascode technologies (CloudFormation Terraform) and processes.
Familiarity with elements of our greater service tech stack including containerized Kubernetesbased microservice architectures performance testing platform and tools JS APMs messaging services API gateways.
Proficient in functional programming languages (including Python) as well as declarative programming languages (e.g. SQL MYSQL).
You are experienced in handson database administration for both SQL and NoSQL technologies.
You drive best practices and set standards for your team.
You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.
You deliver highquality results the first time and improve code documentation and results with each iteration. Your team trusts your work.
What We Offer:
A Great Place to work.
Equal opportunity employer
Fasttrack 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.If youre a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.
Employment Type
Full-Time
