Software Engineer II - Platform Engineering

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Software Engineer II - Platform Engineering, Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Meet Our Team:

Observability teams play a critical role in ensuring these streaming products and services run smoothly and efficiently at scale. Our specialized teams focus on areas such as Logging, Metrics and Service Catalog. 
 

Roles & Responsibilities:

Within Platform engineering, you will bring in engineering practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and automated pipelines, ensuring the platform is reliable, scalable, and easy to adopt. You will collaborate with service teams across the organization to shape adoption, define standards, and improve platform capabilities.  
 

The ideal candidate is a creative thinker, passionate about technology, and driven to innovate. They should demonstrate data-driven decision-making, curiosity, and a love for solving complex challenges. If you enjoy problem-solving at scale, building scalable software to automate infrastructure, troubleshooting, and are technically proficient, this is the role for you.    

This job description represents multiple software development roles available within the Observability at WBD.  This includes the following platform areas:   
Logging Metrics Service Catalog 

• You work within Platform team and be a subject matter expert on one or more Platform components  

• You build multiple stable, scalable feature changes that can be successfully shipped to customers in production. Your software contributions in production are the model for highly available, low latency, and efficient software.   

• You participate in an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.  

• You influence the technical vision and priorities for your team.  

• You demonstrate good software development practices.   

• You provide technical documentation describing your contribution and contributing enhancements to your team’s best practices.  
   

What to Bring:

• At least 3+ years of overall experience in software, systems, and infrastructure.   

• At least 1-2 years of experience managing public cloud infrastructure with AWS, implementation, and maintenance of different environments.     

• Strong CS fundamentals and a track record of implementing highly reliable automation using any scripting or programming language such as Python/Go/Typescript.   

• Hands-on experience with at least one IaC tool (e.g. CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, Lambda)    

• Operational experience (i.e. on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks, gameday’s, etc).   

• Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones.   

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation (including diagramming)   

Good to Have:

• Experience with a variety of cloud services like OpenSearch, AMP, network, storage, Victoria Metrics etc.   

• Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes or AWS EKS.   

• Hands-on experience with automating development workflow pipelines.  

• Understanding of distributed systems, microservice architecture, kafka, logging/metric/tracing platforms (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL etc), and security.   
   

What We Offer:

• A Great Place to work. 

• Equal opportunity employer 

• Fast-track growth opportunities. 

How We Get Things Done…