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.

Your New Role...

The Direct to Consumer Group is a technology company within the Warner Bros. Discovery brand. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to power Max and all of our other network’s brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, video transcoding, personalization, payments, to global subscriptions, and much more. We build user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We build for connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of WBD-owned networks around the world. 
 
Warner Bros. Discovery’s Stockholm Engineering team shipped the core services of Warner Bros. Discovery’s growing streaming video platform. We are now a hub for a growing global engineering group of hundreds of software engineers. We are looking for a technically deep and analytical Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Stockholm team. If your interest lies in building highly scalable container-based services, then this may be the team for you.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Studio Foundation team in Stockholm to help shape WBD’s state-of-the art Internal Tooling Platform - Studio. Studio is a comprehensive suite of back-office tools designed to empower various teams within Warner Bros. Discovery, including engineering, customer support, editorial, and commercial management, among others. It provides a self-service platform that seamlessly orchestrates the WBD DTC (Direct-to-Consumer) experience. With a user-friendly interface and a range of powerful features, the Studio streamlines workflows, fosters collaboration, and enables data-driven decision-making. Studio Foundation team is responsible for the core features of the Studio Platform such as release pipelines, core component libraries, maintaining Studio related backend services, onboarding new teams and much more.   

Your Role Accountabilities...

The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers. 

  

• You can work autonomously to design and develop functional changes to existing software systems. You require little or no guidance from team members. You still actively seek input where appropriate and engage your team to inform and share what you are doing. 

• You can collaborate with other engineers assisting on features another engineer designed or taking the lead on feature design yourself. Your software contributions are demonstrated to work in production, and your team trusts your decisions, designs, and code. 

• You can describe and defend your design and code decisions to other engineers, embrace constructive feedback, and adapt your approach to align with team and company standards and objectives. 

• You consistently demonstrated good software ownership practices (e.g. code reviews, code comments, etc.) in all of your contributions. Your code reviews are uneventful, you prepare documentation proactively, and you ensure proper monitoring for operational excellence in production. 

• You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it. 

 
Qualifications and Experience...

• Proficient with frontend web development including React and Typescript. 

• Proficient with NodeJS backend services. 

• Experience with persistence and caching solutions such as DynamoDB, ElasticSearch and Redis. 

• Usage and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. 

• Experience of building, operating, and truly owning services. Implementing alerting, metrics, and logging using Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty. 

 
Nice to haves: 

• Experience with Java. 

• Experience with Okta integrations and Okta APIs. 

• Experience in UX 

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.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.