Staff Software Developer

Key Skills

Algorithms, Apache Flink, Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, AWS, Azure, Big Data Technology, Design, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Snowflake, Software Development, SPARK Programming, SQL

Job Description

We are the team responsible for WBD’s in-house real user monitoring (RUM) solution providing end-to-end visibility into the performance and health of user journeys in near-real time. Identifying, remediating, and preventing customer quality of experience issues becomes a big data problem when you consider the number of users, the number of actions they are taking, and the number of handoffs in the experience.

Roles and Responsibilities

You will enable engineering teams, operations analysts, and site reliability engineers to make sense of streams of data for millions of concurrent users so we can understand what is going wrong and mitigate those problems before they become widespread outages. You will help us build out applications, services, and event stream processing pipelines that support the monitoring and automated mitigation of issues in our 24/7 environment. Specifically:

• Design and implement data processing pipelines that create business metrics from large amounts of application health and performance event data

• Design and implement new storage related solutions to support data monitoring and analytics visualizations

• Design and implement internal tools and services to help engineers debug customer-impacting issues

• Grow your ability to design, implement, and own critical features of a product used by millions of customers

• Evaluate technical approaches and drive consensus with your engineering peers

• Use data to solve real world problems and improve customer experience

• Have access to experienced engineers as mentors and supporters

What to Bring

• BS degree in Computer Science, or a related field with equivalent experience

• 7+ years professional software engineering experience

• Strong experience with Java 8 or higher preferred (or an equivalent programming language)

• End to end experience supporting stream and batch processing of high scale data pipelines

• Experience with in-stream data processing using tools such as Flink, Kafka, Spark

• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (AWS, Google cloud, Azure)

• Have a solid understanding of common software data structures and algorithms

• Be a quick learner that can leverage surrounding resources to solve their problems while helping others solve theirs

• Passionate about problem solving through software with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you ship

• Seeks self-improvement and is adaptable to suggestions and feedback

Nice to Have

• Experience working on media streaming products

• Experience working with low-latency services operating in a 24x7 environment at scale

• Full-stack industry experience, or hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology, especially native client applications

• Experience with batch data processing using tools such as SQL, Snowflake, Hadoop

• Experience with Time Series Databases (like AWS Timestream or Prometheus )

• Experience with observability solutions and processes that support products in near-real time at scale

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.