Software Engineer II

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.

Your new role

Software development teams in WBD’s Direct-to-consumer (DTC) division are responsible for building a global streaming video platform to support a broad collection of diverse brands, including HBO Max, Discovery +, CNN and many more. DTC’s software engineering teams build and deliver applications which run on connected TVs, set‑top boxes, smartphones, tablets, consoles, PCs, and other streaming devices. Those applications are backed by a fleet of modern, cloud‑native microservices deployed to Kubernetes within AWS.

What you’ll do

As an engineer in the Release and Delivery Engineering (RDE) team within DTC, you’ll be joining a team that is responsible for building a global, self‑service platform to enable DTC’s engineering teams to build, test, deploy and manage the complex operational life cycle of their services in a fully automated fashion.

Your role will focus on following:

• Implement and improve CI/CD patterns based on established designs for global‑scale applications. These patterns and processes will be consumed by DTC’s global development team to build and deploy their applications.
• Take designs and break them down into executable pieces of work by you and your team members.
• Write services that allow the team to measure all aspects of the CI/CD lifecycle.
• Pursue Operational Excellence for the software you and your team create (constructive code reviews, comments, unit tests, monitoring).
• Collaborate with application teams to elevate their expertise in shipping software to customers.
• Document solutions and clearly communicate them to technical and business teams.
• Participate in an on‑call schedule.

What to Bring

• 3+ years of overall experience in software, systems, and infrastructure for backend APIs.
• 1+ year of experience working with AWS services and contributing to cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Expertise in event‑driven systems, data pipelines & asynchronous code.
• Expertise in Docker and containers including familiarity with infrastructure to orchestrate and run them, like AWS ECS or Kubernetes.
• Strong proficiency in coding with experience with at least one of the following: Go, TypeScript, Python, Java, Ruby, Groovy.
• Familiarity with AWS services including EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, S3, EC2.
• Strong understanding of production software systems and demonstrated a pattern of shipping high‑quality feature changes in those, or similar, systems.
• You require little oversight to work within the teams software development lifecycle practices.
• You think about the long‑term health of your code, your monitoring, your alerting, and your documentation. You nurture all of these in parallel to your software development responsibilities.
• You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience with Cloud technologies like CloudFormation / Terraform, AWS EKS, Kubernetes.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD systems and tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar system.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Can effectively communicate vision and plan with the audience.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservice architecture, SQS, logging/metric/tracing platforms (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, etc).

On June 9, 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies, Warner Bros. and Discovery Global, with an expected completion in mid‑2026. For more details, including leadership appointments and information on individual brands, please visit our newsroom here. Although you will be hired by Warner Bros. Discovery, upon the planned separation in 2026, your employment likely will transition to Warner Bros. During this period of transformation, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to lay the foundation at one of the world’s premier entertainment brands.

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, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you’re 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.

Compensation

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $0.00 - $0.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.