Staff Software Engineer
Core
Staff Software Engineer owning the end-to-end delivery and deployment platform for Warner Bros. Discovery's Direct-to-Consumer streaming products (HBO Max, Discovery+), enabling 2,000+ engineers to ship software safely to production.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure)
Builds
CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, deployment automation, release tooling, and cloud infrastructure for streaming applications.
Domain
Streaming media / Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
CI/CD platform design, cloud infrastructure architecture, Kubernetes management, infrastructure as code, build system optimization, cross-team technical leadership, system design, incident response, mentorship
Preferred skills
Go, TypeScript, Kotlin, Java, Python
Technologies
GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven, Bazel, npm/yarn, Rush, Make, JFrog Artifactory, ECR, AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, IAM), CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Drive technical direction for the delivery and deployment platform; lead design-to-production for complex cross-team initiatives; own critical platform programs including resilience and disaster recovery; build and evolve CI/CD tooling; establish operational excellence standards; mentor engineers; represent the team in cross-org technical forums.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence