Senior Software Engineer - Content Experience Platform

Senior Software Engineer

The Direct to Consumer (DTC) Group is a technology company within Warner Bros Discovery. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our network's digital brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, browse, content catalogue, merchandising, localizations, personalization, and much more. We enable performant streaming experiences across connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of WBD owned streaming services (HBO Max, Discovery+, CNN, and others). This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD's future.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer within the DTC Content Experience Platform. The team is responsible for aggregating, enabling, and serving the personalized Content Discovery experience within our DTC streaming video platforms through our Experience Services APIs. We ensure all client applications worldwide have seamless access to the latest and relevant content metadata, browse experiences and curations, and presentational elements to deliver a best-in-class content discovery experience to our hundreds of millions of streaming users globally across our different streaming service platforms.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of significant features or services—both new systems and major enhancements to existing ones.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, identify root causes, and contribute to systemic improvements in reliability, performance, and developer workflow.
• Contribute to architectural discussions within your team and help define patterns, practices, and technical direction.
• Actively mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and informal coaching.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate business needs into effective technical solutions.
• Ensure high standards of code quality, testing, and operational readiness in your own work and across the team.
• Take shared responsibility for your team's systems in production—including observability, alerting, and incident response.
• Continuously look for opportunities to improve engineering tools, processes, and team effectiveness.
• Owns technical solutions from design through deployment—navigating ambiguity, proposing architecture, and delivering working systems.
• Contributes to the evolution of team architecture and tooling, helping define patterns and standards that others adopt.
• Mentors and supports other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration.
• Writes clean, testable, and well-documented code and advocates for engineering best practices across the team.
• Works effectively across functions—partnering with Product Managers, Designers, and stakeholders to deliver impactful features.
• Understands and contributes to system observability, performance tuning, and production readiness.
• Thinks in terms of business value and user experience, not just technical correctness.
• Communicates clearly and proactively, driving alignment, surfacing risks, and helping the team stay focused and productive.
• Self-directed, dependable, and comfortable taking ownership in fast-moving environments.

Qualifications and Experience...

• Strong proficiency in Java or other JVM-based languages, with a proven ability to build and maintain robust backend services in production.
• Solid experience developing and operating systems in cloud environments, using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice-based architectures, including asynchronous communication patterns with gRPC and Kafka.
• Skilled in implementing and maintaining observability tooling—including metrics, logging, and alerting—with tools such as Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, and PagerDuty.
• Hands-on experience with datastores and caching technologies such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Caffeine.
• Familiar with non-blocking, asynchronous, and reactive programming using frameworks like Spring WebFlux or Vert.x.
• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver high-performance, low-latency APIs for real-time applications.
• Working knowledge of distributed tracing and diagnostics tools like OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or Zipkin.
• Practical experience using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, or working in a GitOps-based workflow.