Senior Software Engineer (CDN Engineer)

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.

We are hiring Senior Software Engineer to join our Live DevOps team here at WBD with a focus on CDN and origin management, who will also implement new solutions, triage issues to resolution and provide dedicated support during product launches and high-profile events.

The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have successfully delivered high-end experiences directly to consumers. 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 in 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.

 

About the team

The Live DevOps team is responsible for the CDN infrastructure for the WBD brands like CNN, TBS, TNT, Bleacher Report and NCAA, and MAX. This includes managing the live streamingand on demand video origins, integrating and maintaining our video and site infrastructure acrossmultiple CDN partners and supporting our brands as we bring best in class experiences directly to our consumers. Additionally, we also manage the infrastructure for the live channels that feed our direct-to-consumer platforms for both linear and event-based workflows. We leverage automation where possible and collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate across your systems.

 

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with development teams and technical teams to provide resilient solutions to achieve business goals. Solutions can consist of software and services, commercial software, services and systems as well as open source software. • Solutions Consultation: collaborate with business unit and third-party service provides for new products or product enhancements that may alter performance and availability of products, services or infrastructure components• Configuration Management: author, deploy, and maintain system, web site and application configuration management code and configuration • Perform platform configuration, capacity planning, monitoring, alert configuration and Tier 2 incident response. • Plan and execute the integration of internet-based products and services in an efficient, secure, scalable, reliable and cost-effective manner. • Incident Response: Execute day to day maintenance tasks including problem determination and resolution, as well as root-cause analysis and responsibility responding to live site issues • Automation/Tooling: author, maintain and document custom tools and programs that reduce the number of manual processes necessary for daily operational support • Product Testing: provides support for integration testing, system testing, and load/performance testing prior to final release of new and upgraded products and services • Documentation: provide and maintain documentation of systems architecture, troubleshooting and support guidelines, system metrics, project information and plans • Operational system support of various internet properties including streaming video and site deployment

 

Requirements

• 5 years of experience providing operational support of internet delivered products • Content Delivery Network (CDN) platform experience with one or several of these vendors: Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly, Edgio, Lumen, or Google Media CDN• Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS and HTTP • Intermediate skills in a shell programming language such as: bsh, ksh, zsh, powershell, etc.  • Intermediate skills in one or more common, cross-platform programming languages such as: Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, Go, etc. • Basic knowledge of web application content and its effects on end-user experience: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, etc. • Experience troubleshooting web application issues using commonly available tools such as: FireBug, Charles Proxy, Chrome Developer Tools, curl, etc. • Intermediate skills managing one or mo