Staff Software Engineer- Golang- QoE Platform- Bangalore

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Who We Are

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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 - Golang- QoE Platform 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 non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information please visit

Meet Our Team:

The Video Playback organizations mission is to provide global self-service multi-tenant turn key solutions for all WBD Streaming brands both at Server and Client side across Live linear Live event & VOD stream types and wide array of device platforms serving all customers with seamless & smooth playback experience. Our mission is to foster unified QoE analytics and drive datadriven use cases by leveraging a robust multitenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze the video playback experience. We are obsessed with customer first mindset and providing them the excellent playback experience.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Staff Software Engineer here you are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex data-driven challenges and automate those solutions.

Within our organization youll lead efforts aimed at scaling our existing data offerings and establish the technical strategy for how we can better equip engineers and leaders with Data Platform.

Youll build a deep understanding of our digital streaming service and use that knowledge coupled with your engineering infrastructure data and cloud knowledge to optimize and evolve how we understand our technical ecosystem.

To be successful youll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers.

You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code data streaming pipeline data lake management Database Analytics and Dashboarding.

You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgment when choosing to build new vs extending existing ones

You provide guidance on design coding and operational best practices and have a track-record of applying these best practices to software that you have worked on

You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist

You make high impact decisions driving what and how software is built

You analyze requirements study software architectures and designs to make decisions suiting the requirements. You are often right and you are persuasive in delivering your suggestions and ideas to your team

You mentor junior Engineers overseeing their designs code quality and integration into a team. Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on Engineers around you

You possess excellent collaboration and diplomacy skills.

In addition youll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.

What to Bring:

9-14 years expert proficiency in Go with additional exposure to Python being a plus.

You have architected and designed complex E2E data streaming pipeline and storage systems

Strong experience in designing microservices distributed systems and asynchronous communication channels (REST gRPC Kafka).

Comprehensive knowledge of full-stack application design including UI application logic database layers and caching mechanisms.

Solid understanding of NoSQL (MongoDB preferred) and SQL (PostgreSQL preferred) for designing and managing scalable databases and data lakes.

Experience with data modeling database design and various SQL dialects.

Deep expertise in Docker Kubernetes Terraform and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).

Experience with alerting metrics and logging tools such as Prometheus CloudWatch Kibana.

Familiarity with video processing stacks including encoders FFMPEG and codecs.

Experience with workflow engines like Temporal Cadence is a plus.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to build empathetic tools and platforms.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Other Requirements

Research new service integrations both internal to AWS and external.

Move quickly and intelligently - seeing technical debt as your nemesis.

Ability to solve problems independently but knows when to request assistance.

Strong action orientation

Characteristics & Traits

Naturally inquisitive critical thinker proactive problem-solver and detail-oriented.

Positive attitude and an open mind

Strong organizational skills with the ability to act independently and responsibly

Self-starter comfortable initiating projects from design to execution with minimal supervision

Ability to manage and balance multiple (and sometimes competing) priorities in a fast-paced complex business environment and can manage time effectively to consistently meet deadlines

Team player and relationship builder

What We Offer:

A Great Place to work.

Equal opportunity employer

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.

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