Senior Software Engineer

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.

Position: Labs Senior Software Engineer

Location: NYC

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery’s leading non-fiction and international entertainment and
sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.

We are hiring Senior Software Engineers to join our Labs Experimentation team based within NYC who have a strong experience in python, MLOps and data pipeline development. The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems and data pipelines 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 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 will be reporting into the team based within the UK.

What to bring

• Strong DBT (Data Build Tool) experience in building and architecting data pipelines and analytics workflows. Including unit testing and data testing of DBT based SQL & Python models.

• Expert in Databricks Platform (SQL, Compute, Clusters, ML, Workflows)

• Expert in Python language (Asynchronous, non-blocking, functional style of programming and experience implementing with Python. Managing custom Wheel files and writing libraries)

• Expert SQL & NoSQL experience and query performance tuning.

• Strong experience of streaming data, ML Ops and analytics workflows at scale. Including data pipeline architectures, performance tuning and running production ML models. (Databricks)

• Strong in (Python) PySpark, Notebooks and Data Science Libraries (Scipy, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn)

• Experience of Looker (or other BI tools) for data visualization.

• Experience in Experimentation and A/B testing.

• Strong Observability (O11y), alerting and monitoring solutions with Grafana, Prometheus and PagerDuty

• Very strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, architectural and design patterns, data structures & algorithms

• Very strong expertise in cloud computing and hands on experience in delivering large scale distributed systems on cloud platforms like AWS and Hashicorp Terraform

• Ability to apply strong analytical skills in delivering simple solutions for complex problems

• Background in Data Science & Data Engineering (including math and statistics functions)

• Very strong communication skills both written and verbal.

• 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.

• You can identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design.

• Working with data science teams to create models to improve the current experimentation platform.

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 a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status 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.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $99,400.00 – $184,600.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

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