Staff Software Engineer – Golang, Consumer Team

Warner Bros. Discovery

Staff Software Engineer leading engineering projects in Golang for Warner Bros. Discovery.

Posted 6/13/2026full-timeHyderabad • 🇮🇳 IndiaLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As a Staff Engineer, you will tackle complex challenges, analyzing situations and data with a keen eye for detail.
Your role involves leading the team in designing and implementing significant functional changes to existing or new software systems.
You will exercise sound judgment to determine when to build novel solutions and when to extend existing ones.
This role combines technical expertise, leadership, and mentorship, making you a pivotal part of the team’s success.
Your ability to communicate complex ideas simply and drive high-quality software will be instrumental in achieving project goals.
Take a leading role within the team, providing technical guidance and expertise.
Collaborate with other engineers, sharing knowledge and fostering a collaborative environment.
Model data-driven decision making.
Simplify complicated concepts for effective communication.
Set the bar high by delivering exemplary software contributions in production.
Model highly available, low-latency, and efficient software solutions.
Document code, technical designs, and operational processes to ensure clarity for fellow engineers.
Set and uphold high bar for engineering and operational excellence.
Coach and mentor junior engineers up to Senior Software Engineer level.
Provide strong technical direction while mentoring and coaching junior developers, helping them grow through design guidance, code reviews, and practical engineering feedback.
Drive best practices within the team, setting the standards for quality.
Collaborate with leadership to shape development strategies.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree with 9 – 13 years of experience as a software developer (Golang experience preferred)
Strong CS fundamentals
Strong technical understanding of Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, messaging services, DB services, API gateways, service mesh, and infrastructure-as-code technologies/processes.
Direct experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS preferred).
Experience in building and operating global-scale large platform services in non-prod and prod environments.
Strong leadership experience in platform systems, with a track record of contributing meaningfully to technical vision, strategy, and execution.
Experience in large volume transaction systems, data migration workflows, with a focus on quality, precision, and accuracy metrics.
Knack for operationalizing workflows into a self-serve system with appropriate guardrails.
Experience establishing and improving data-driven infrastructure and service KPIs such as performance, scale, availability, reliability, and security.
A strong understanding of security best practices and a high bar for protecting customer data.
Operational experience (i.e., on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks).
Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones.
Proven ability to work with strong technical peers across global teams, driving consensus on architectural and technical direction through clear influence and sound judgment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

GolangKubernetesmicroservice architecturemessaging servicesDB servicesAPI gatewaysservice meshinfrastructure-as-codecloud computingdata migration

Soft Skills

leadershipmentorshipcommunicationcollaborationtechnical guidancedecision makingcoachingproblem solvinginfluenceattention to detail