Warner Bros. Discovery - Senior Software Engineer - Python Programming

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.

Senior Software Engineer Golang 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 Medias premium entertainment, sports, and news assets with Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.

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 data driven 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 Senior 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 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 possess excellent collaboration and diplomacy skills.

In addition, youll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.

What To Bring :

• 5-8 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 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.

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What We Offer :

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