Staff Software Engineer – DevOps, Sports Team

Warner Bros. Discovery

. As a Staff Engineer – DevOps, operate at the intersection of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeBangalore • 🇮🇳 IndiaLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As a Staff Engineer – DevOps, operate at the intersection of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering.
Set technical direction for AWS infrastructure, infrastructure automation, reliability practices, and developer enablement.
Create leverage across multiple teams by establishing standards, building shared platforms, and improving system resilience, operability, and developer productivity at scale.
Own and evolve the technical direction for AWS infrastructure platforms used across multiple services and teams.
Design and standardize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns (Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK) that serve as long-lived foundations for the organization.
Define best practices and guardrails for AWS account structure, networking, IAM, security controls, and cost governance.
Design infrastructure and deployment systems that prioritize high availability, fault tolerance, scalability, and disaster recovery.
Drive adoption of SRE principles including error budgets, capacity planning, load testing, and fault-injection to ensure system resilience.
Lead efforts to improve operational excellence, reducing toil through automation, self-service tooling, and preventative controls.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex, high-severity production issues using logs, metrics, traces, and code-level analysis.
Ensure systems remain reliable during peak traffic through proactive capacity and performance planning.
Architect and evolve CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure workflows to enable safe, fast, and repeatable delivery at scale.
Partner with application teams to streamline build, deployment, and operational workflows, improving developer productivity and autonomy.
Champion automation across the full infrastructure lifecycle, minimizing manual intervention and operational risk.
Act as a trusted technical authority and reviewer for critical infrastructure and platform designs.
Drive engineering standards and best practices that are adopted beyond your immediate team.
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the bar for infrastructure, reliability, and operational engineering.
Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs clearly to engineers and leadership, influencing outcomes through expertise, data, and judgment.

Requirements

What you’ll need

9-13 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure, with ownership of production systems at scale
Deep, hands-on expertise with AWS, including multi-account environments, networking, security, and reliability patterns
Advanced experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation/CDK acceptable) and setting patterns used by others
Strong Linux and networking fundamentals; ability to debug complex distributed systems
Experience with containerized platforms (Kubernetes, EKS, ECS) and microservice architectures
Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (Python, Go, Shell, etc.)
Experience operating and improving observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) and using data to drive operational decisions
Proven ability to influence architectural direction and raise technical standards across teams, not just within one squad
AWS certifications or exposure to other cloud platforms are a plus, but not required

Benefits

Comp & perks

A Great Place to work.
Equal opportunity employer
Fast track growth opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSInfrastructure as CodeTerraformCloudFormationCDKLinuxKubernetesEKSECSPython

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationmentoringinfluencingcollaborationproblem-solvingoperational excellencetechnical authoritydecision-makingautomation advocacy

Certifications

AWS certifications