Software Engineering Intern – Summer 2025 

Locations may include, but are not limited to:  

New York, New York; Bellevue, Washington; Los Angeles, California; Atlanta, Georgia 

About the organization: 

Warner Bros. Discovery’s global technology organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery’s continued growth, building world-class products on our streaming platforms Max and discovery+.   

Why Join the Warner Bros. Discovery Team? 

Delivering one of the largest and most iconic content libraries in streaming to millions of consumers around the globe is no easy feat. It requires high levels of collaboration, a willingness to take risks, and a passion to tackle some of the most complex technical challenges. That is why at Warner Bros. Discovery, we cultivate an environment for our employees to thrive, whether it is building all our tech from scratch to continuously innovate, working at the exciting pace of a startup, or utilizing our flexible working hours to enhance collaboration with teams across the world. We think big and we hire people who do the same: technologists who love owning a problem and creating their own elegant solutions, and those who are willing to try, fail, learn, and try again because that is how we truly build the future. 

In terms of languages, we speak a little bit of everything - Swift 5/Swift UI, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Vue.js, React, Brightscript, GraphQL on AWS container-based and serverless stacks.  

A software engineer is a person whose primary responsibility is the design and development of software to production for WBD. They regularly engage with other engineers to challenge technical designs, validate technical decisions, review code changes, and unblock development. They are the frontline owner for operations related to their software including on-call support, fixing bugs, correction of error root cause fixing, data collection, software testing, and build and deployment practices. They may engage stakeholders to communicate status for their space, and they may prepare documentation related to initiatives or key decisions in their space, most often technical specifications and design documents. 
 

Key Features of the Program:

• Orientation: You’ll be invited to a Global Tech & Product specific orientation where you will learn from executive leaders who are among the most talented technologists in the industry.
• 1:1 Mentorship: You’ll be assigned a mentor for the program to ensure you get off to a flying start and continue to meet your development goals throughout.
• Career Coaching: You will receive tailored career advice and guidance from experienced industry experts and leaders who will share how they have successfully navigated their careers.
• Global Exposure: Most of our teams and products have global impact, meaning often our interns are working on projects that impact multiple markets. This provides you with unique insight into solving problems at scale, the nuances between markets and how we leverage technology to provide seamless and consistent quality across our customer experience globally.
• Global Network: By the end of the program, you will have built a global network of talented Engineers, Product Managers, Data Scientists and Data Analysts, Product Designers, Marketeers, and business leaders. You will also have an extensive network for peers with whom you will have built great relationships! It is a small industry and the network you build and the impression you make during the program will be invaluable throughout your career.
• Long-term Career Prospects: While this is a summer internship, we see this as the start of a long-term relationship that can potentially result in a return offer for our Full-time New Grad Program. Many of our current employees are prior interns and for developers early in their career, Warner Bros. Discovery offers unparalleled opportunities. From working on unique and exciting projects, to having global impact and gaining international experience. We have also built a fantastic culture that is truly diverse and inclusive, reflected in creativity and innovation across our products and features. And of course, you will work with our talented team; our Scientists are among the best in the industry and are excited to mentor and develop the next generation of tech talent!

Why Software Engineering at Warner Bros. Discovery: 

In addition to building great products and creating some of the best content in the world, we have built a talented team and culture! Our program offers unique experiences, with tremendous opportunities for growth. We value and are committed to the work we do. Our engineers are some of the most talented in the industry and are excited to mentor and learn from our interns. You’ll have the opportunity to help deliver customer facing, impactful projects and test your theories on the newest technologies and methodologies, while learning from the seasoned pros. 
 

Traits of a software engineer: 

• Active Learning You are here to learn and grow. Your industry knowledge will never be complete, and you are hungry to learn more and to share what you have learned with your peers. 

• Quality Coding You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code. You may have experience in more than one language and understand the fundamentals of software engineering well enough to learn new languages and frameworks when the need arises. 

• Computer Science Fundamentals You understand a broad range of data structures, algorithms design, and know how, when, and when not to use them. You can evaluate run-time performance and understand how to trade off performance using a variety of algorithm and data structure approaches. 

• Software Architecture You think about software design, and as your experience grows, can design increasingly sophisticated solutions to complex or ambiguous business problems. You recognize and apply design patterns to solve these problems. 

• Business Understanding & Customer Empathy You are here to solve business problems and help our customers, not explore and research technology for technology’s sake. 

• Proactive Engineering Leadership You want to understand the business problem and work proactively to find the best way to solve it. 

• Collaborative You are comfortable advising others through code reviews, design reviews, and feedback on operational excellence. You are also comfortable receiving feedback and using it to grow as an engineer. You recognize that good ideas can come from anywhere, and work to make all your peers feel included and heard. You deliver facts and decisions with empathy and transparency to bring others along with you. 

Expectations 
 

• Scope: You can take documented designs prepared by more experienced engineers and contribute code to implement the design with support from other engineers. 

• Impact: Contributes to team level impact. Contribution creates impact to project related metrics. Delivers high quality code when given well defined tasks. 

• Problem Definition & Complexity: Works on problems of limited scope. Follows standard practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained. You make decisions that help produce stable, production-quality code and follow your team’s best practices. Normally SDE receives detailed instructions on work and assignments. 

• Execution: With support, delivers high quality software with appropriate unit test coverage and documentation. Documents and provides input related to code development and module or design work. Participates in an inclusive and supportive engineering culture. Normally SDE receives general instructions on work and new assignments. 

• Influence: You help influence the technical vision for your team through discussions with peers and your management prompted by your curiosity and desire to learn. You develop stable working relationships internally. You are an effective communicator as exemplified by your technical documentation and your interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams. 

• Process Improvement: May participate in peer feedback processes and provide feedback to hiring managers on candidates. You can provide technical documentation describing your contributions and enhancements to your team’s best practices. 

• Mentorship: Seeks mentorship from more senior engineers, asks thoughtful questions and seeks feedback.

Skills/Experience  

• Currently working towards a Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field 

• Experience professionally delivering online technology  

• Willingness to learn about Linux/Unix environment 

• Able to read and write software in Python or some other general purpose programming language 

• Experience using and creating APIs 

• Must have excellent communication skills 

Qualifications 

In addition to academic qualifications, we are looking for interns who are always curious and have a desire to learn. You will need to have great attention to detail with a great sense of agility and scope. 

• Currently enrolled as a student working towards a Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field (proof of enrollment will be required if selected for an internship). 

• Must be a rising junior, senior or grad student. 

• Must be in good academic standing (3.0 or above cumulative GPA).   

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Warner Bros. Discovery will only consider candidates who are presently authorized to work for any employer in the United States and who will not require work visa sponsorship from Warner Bros. Discovery now or in the future in order to retain their authorization to work in the United States. Candidates currently on any student or exchange visa, including F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, J-1, M-1, etc., will not be eligible for the internship program.

 
What you need to know about the Global Tech Summer 2025 Program Application Process: 

• Our Summer 2025 internship program is 11 weeks long, commencing June 2nd - August 15th. 

• Our internships are paid opportunities. Credit is not required; however, we will provide documentation if necessary. 

• The application deadline is on or before October 25th.  After this date, we cannot guarantee your application will be reviewed for the position. 

• We do not require a cover letter. Please demonstrate your passion for the position through your resume. 

We are interviewing through Fall 2024 on a rolling basis.  A Warner Bros. Discovery Intern Program team member will contact you if your experiences and interests match an open internship position. Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to give individual status updates. 

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Pay Rate depends on location of internship: $43 - $47 per hour USD.