Senior Software Engineer

Warner Bros. Discovery

full-time

Posted on: 9/26/2025

Origin: • 🇮🇳 India

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AWSJavaKafkaKubernetesOraclePostgresPrometheus

About the role

Build high-performance, stable, and scalable systems deployed in production.
Always champion engineering and operational excellence.
Drive best practices and set standards within the team.
Influence the team’s strategy and contribute significantly to planning.
Exercise good judgment when balancing immediate and long-term business needs.
Creatively think and innovate to deliver delightful experiences for customers.
Always demonstrate data-driven decision-making and continuously seek solutions to challenging problems.
Consistently deliver results, with quality, in a fast-paced environment.
Collaborate with peers, share knowledge, and contribute to technical decisions.
Lead major functional changes in existing or new software systems.
Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and improve processes.
Document code, designs, and processes for clarity.
Establish best practices and quality standards within the team.
Mentor junior engineers and positively influence the team

Bachelor’s degree with 5 – 8 years of experience as a software developer.
Proficient in Java programming language.
Strong problem solving skills.
Discipline at unit, integration, and acceptance testing.
Experience working in an agile-based methodology.
Experience in building and operating global-scale large platform services in non-prod and prod environments.
Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones.
strong technical understanding of Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, AWS SNS and SQS, Kafka messaging services and Oracle/Postgres DBs.
Experience establishing and improving data-driven infrastructure and service KPIs such as performance, scale, availability, reliability, security.
Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana.
Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of programming.
Operational Experience to run services globally; on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with emphasis on technical documentation.