Senior Software 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.

Max is the future of entertainment and storytelling. 

Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming entertainment offering, Max, launched in May 2023 and is the culmination of some of the most innovative new technology and greatest creative talent in the industry. Anchored by the entire HBO service, arguably the greatest brand in television, Max also features fan favorites from the WBD library including Warner Bros., New Line, DC, CNN, Discovery, HGTV, TNT, TBS, truTV, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Crunchyroll, Rooster Teeth, Looney Tunes, and more.  Max is home to key third-party library acquisitions such as Friends, South Park and Doctor Who, and exclusive Originals, from the likes of groundbreaking creative talent such as J.J. Abrams, Ridley Scott, Jordan Peele, Steven Soderbergh, Michael Mann, Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon, Anna Kendrick, Greg Berlanti, Melissa McCarthy, Robert Zemeckis and other visionaries. Find out more information at Max.com.

The Job

Like to develop features that reach millions of users and have a direct impact on the success of a new and exciting service? The Dotcom team is a friendly, energetic engineering group responsible for the primary customer-facing max.com web site that attracts millions of visitors through SEO, paid advertising, and partner relationships.  On our team, your work will be the conduit to convert visitors into customers and is highly visible.  We work closely with product, SEO, marketing, content, experimentation, and design to develop features and tools that empower our teams to build, deploy, and serve world-class, high-conversion, data-driven pages. We’re looking for Engineers that have an interest in the space and a passion for creating great software.

As a DevOps Engineer on WBD Max Dotcom team, you will design and build solutions to support the infrastructure and CI/CD processes of our publishing system.  Join us as we expand our services across the globe to support an increasing number of visitors and internal users with reliable and performant hosting and deployment environments.  You will work closely with the best engineers as an integral part of a custom publishing platform, which reaches millions of users every month.  You will own and improve systems that bridge between teams and will underpin the roadmap of the product for years to come. By joining our team, you'll have a rare opportunity to build noteworthy components of a major new service from the ground up, and your work will help attract millions of customers to the service. In this role you will join a growing team with many opportunities for you to expand your scope and influence. You will use your experience to make smart engineering decisions and own critical areas of a product used by millions of customers. You will get the opportunity to work in multiple areas of the product.

The Daily

• Join a growing team with many opportunities for you to expand your skillset

• Grow your ability to design, implement, and own critical features of a product used by millions of customers.
• Design, improve, and protect large-scale systems that drive and power Max.com
• Evaluate multiple technical approaches and drive consensus with peers
• Use data to solve real world problems and improve customer experience
• Collaborate and partner with engineers of all levels
• Work with designers, product managers, and marketers to optimize tooling and performance for Max
• Handle operational issues and troubleshoot bugs independently
• Work in an agile environment, working with peers to review code and deploy world-class features

The Essentials

• 4+ years of experience in infrastructure development and support, building scalable services for shipped consumer products or platforms
• Success in designing and building highly available application/systems at scale 
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write
• A strong understanding of Computer Science fun