Senior Software Engineer - Content Experience Platform

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.

Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world’s most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.

Your New Role...

The Direct to Consumer (DTC) Group is a technology company within Warner Bros Discovery. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our network’s digital brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, browse, content catalogue, merchandising, localizations, personalization, and much more. We enable performant streaming experiences across connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of WBD owned streaming services (HBO Max, Discovery+, CNN, and others). This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD’s future. 

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer within the DTC Content Experience Platform. The team is responsible for aggregating, enabling, and serving the personalised Content Discovery experience within our DTC streaming video platforms through our Experience Services APIs. We ensure all client applications worldwide have seamless access to the latest and relevant content metadata, browse experiences and curations, and presentational elements to deliver a best-in-class content discovery experience to our hundreds of millions of streaming users globally across our different streaming service platforms.  

Your Role Accountabilities...​​

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of significant features or services—both new systems and major enhancements to existing ones. 

• Troubleshoot complex production issues, identify root causes, and contribute to systemic improvements in reliability, performance, and developer workflow. 

• Contribute to architectural discussions within your team and help define patterns, practices, and technical direction. 

• Actively mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and informal coaching. 

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate business needs into effective technical solutions. 

• Ensure high standards of code quality, testing, and operational readiness in your own work and across the team. 

• Take shared responsibility for your team’s systems in production—including observability, alerting, and incident response. 

• Continuously look for opportunities to improve engineering tools, processes, and team effectiveness. 

• Owns technical solutions from design through deployment—navigating ambiguity, proposing architecture, and delivering working systems. 

• Contributes to the evolution of team architecture and tooling, helping define patterns and standards that others adopt. 

• Mentors and supports other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration. 

• Writes clean, testable, and well-documented code and advocates for engineering best practices across the team. 

• Works effectively across functions—partnering with Product Managers, Designers, and stakeholders to deliver impactful features. 

• Understands and contributes to system observability, performance tuning, and production readiness. 

• Thinks in terms of business value and user experience, not just technical correctness. 

• Communicates clearly and proactively, driving alignment, surfaci