Staff Software Engineer

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.

Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the worlds most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. Were always on the lookout for energetic creative people to join our team.

Staff Software Engineer for Cluster Engineering

Every great story has a new beginning and yours starts here.

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery the stuff dreams are made of.

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 thestorytellersbringing our characters to life thecreatorsbringing them to your living rooms and thedreamerscreating 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.

Meet our team:

TheDirect to Consumer (DTC)Group is a technology company withinWarner Bros Discovery. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT) and a suite of applications to supportall ofour networks brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-servicesoperatedon AWS. Our platform covers everything from search catalogue video transcoding personalization to global subscriptions andreally muchmore. We build user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning build for connected TVs web mobile phones tablets and consoles for a large footprint ofWBDowned networks (HBO MaxDiscovery Food Network Golf TVMotorTrend Eurosport Discovery Play and many more).This is a growing global engineering group crucial toWBDsfuture.

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer within the DTC Operational Engineering group with a focus on Cluster Engineering. The team provides a secure efficient and easy-to-use container runtime platform. We build automation for expanding it to new markets tenants and geographical regions bootstrapping a fully featured container runtime ready for back-end development teams to use.

We team up with other platform teams manage the lifecycle of critical platform components and work closely with SRE to improve reliability and efficiency of the platform.

We provide strategies and processes for lifecycle management of the container runtime environment. We own critical components assess when we should introduce new ones and set the bar for quality. We focus on reducing security incidents while ensuring cost-effectiveness and supporting business needs.

Your new role:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the team you will be a subject matter expert in Kubernetes helping to define the overall architecture and driving implementations. You will be a strong contributor to improving our internal developer platform serving thousands of software engineers across the globe.

Tasks include operating a large fleet of Kubernetes clusters e.g. version upgrades security patching cost optimization scaling and performance tuning. As part of rolling out upgrades to hundreds of clusters some ranging up to a thousand nodes you will identify automation opportunities to reduce the amount of toil needed. To keep our runtime cost low you will lead cost optimization efforts like tweaking the Karpenter node scaling strategies increasing the bin-packing efficiency of pods on nodes ensuring the right node family type is used (m c r spot and Graviton/ARM) and identifying over scaled infrastructure.

To enable faster time to new markets and onboarding of new tenants to our streaming platform youll define automation processes for the creation of new Kubernetes clusters together with bootstrapping of critical platform capabilities like service mesh deployment systems and the observability stack (metrics tracing logging).

Preferred Skills:

• At least 8 years of software development infrastructure management or operations experience.
• At least 5 years of Kubernetes and AWS experience.
• Experience with architecture design and developing platform solutions.
• Ability to mentor senior engineers.
• Experience with leading large technical projects with unclear requirements.
• Ability to drive decision making and cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to write quality code for automation in python bash or golang.
• Experience with designing infrastructure CI/CD pipelines e.g. Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Experience with IaC preferably Terraform.
• Used to Helm templating for k8s manifests.
• Understanding of how GitOps tooling like ArgoCD or Flux works.
• Experience in rolling out infrastructure changes to production by following a change management workflow.
• Knowing what metrics to monitor during a change rollout to identify problems.
• Strong ownership mentality during rollouts stop/rollback and fix if problems occur or escalate to management/on-call if getting stuck.
• Strong sense of security always using least privileges access and firewall configurations when needed for maintenance.
• Understanding of how running workloads on the Kubernetes clusters may be affected by cluster changes or node rotations.
• Willingness to talk to service development teams and understand their challenges when they report problems during maintenance windows.
• Ability to define and measure KPIs and honor SLAs for infrastructure maintenance.
• Experience with Git and GitHub PR workflows.
• Experience in working with Agile Sprints Epics/Stories Jira.
• Experience with building internal developer platforms using technologies such as backstage/argo-workflows.

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 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.

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 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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