Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

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 bringing our characters to life, the bringing them to your living rooms and the 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.

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering, 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.

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Meet Our Team :

Software development teams in WBD’s Direct-to-consumer (DTC) division build and deliver applications and services powering the customer experience of products such as MAX, which run on connected TVs, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets, consoles, PCs, and other streaming devices.

Observability teams play a critical role in ensuring these streaming products and services run smoothly and efficiently at scale. Our specialized teams focus on areas such as Logging, Metrics and Service Catalog.

Roles & Responsibilities :

As a Platform Engineer, you will design and build a cloud based custom Observability Platform, leveraging software-driven approaches to tackle complex, data-intensive challenges. This platform is a core engineering system that empowers the engineering community with advanced tools and capabilities to troubleshoot, optimize, and gain deeper insights into their services.

Within Platform engineering, you will bring in engineering practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and automated pipelines, ensuring the platform is reliable, scalable, and easy to adopt. You will collaborate with service teams across the organization to shape adoption, define standards, and improve platform capabilities.

The ideal candidate is a creative thinker, passionate about technology, and driven to innovate. They should demonstrate data-driven decision-making, curiosity, and a love for solving complex challenges. If you enjoy problem-solving at scale, building scalable software to automate infrastructure, troubleshooting, and are technically proficient, this is the role for you.

This job description represents multiple software development roles available within the Observability at WBD. This includes the following platform areas :

• Logging
• Metrics
• Service Catalog

You work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. You play a leading role on the team designing and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones.

You create functional-level impact and deliver more complex functional changes. You implement activities that generally impact multiple components, processes, your own work, and other units, teams, and projects.

You design components and complex architectures while solving business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software development best practices. You lead the design and development of the most complex enhancements.

You build multiple stable, scalable feature changes that can be successfully shipped to customers in production. Your software contributions in production are the model for highly available, low latency, and efficient software.

You are a collaborative leader that makes other developers and team members around you more productive by sharing your knowledge and helping to drive technical decisions. You can communicate complicated concepts simply.

You drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a role model for your teams. Your software contributions in production are the model for highly available, low latency, and efficient software.

You are expected to mentor other developers on your team.

What to Bring :

The ideal candidate has a passion for technology. You likely have been a software developer in your past developing features for customers in either a customer facing application or backend service. However, during your tenure, you have found interest in serving your fellow software developers through innovative platforms, tools, services, and processes that help them be productive.

You also have amazing skills that allow you to take requirements to produce scalable, reliable, and easy to understand architecture. Additionally, you are astute in taking an architectural design and performing a work breakdown for your team so that your team can deliver value each sprint. Lastly you are a mentor to your fellow software developers helping each person grow. You do this by being a role model within the team.

At least 5+ years of overall experience in software, systems, and infrastructure.

At least 3+ years of experience managing public cloud infrastructure with AWS, including design, implementation, and maintenance of large-scale environments.

Strong CS fundamentals and a track record of implementing highly reliable automation using any scripting or programming language such as Python / Go / Typescript.

Hands-on experience with at least one IaC tool (e.g. CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, Lambda)

Experience in working across product, software development, and analytics teams to evaluate new ideas, discuss technical concepts, create scalable designs, implement new models, and make tradeoffs to remove roadblocks

Operational experience (i.e. on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks, gameday’s, etc).

Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation (including diagramming)

Good to Have :

Experience with a variety of cloud services like OpenSearch, AMP, network, storage, Victoria Metrics etc.

Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes or AWS EKS.

Hands-on experience with automating development workflow pipelines.

Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservice architecture, kafka, logging / metric / tracing platforms (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL etc), and security.

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 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.