Senior Staff Software Engineer - Golang (Consumer Team),Hyderabad

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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Golang (Consumer Team),Hyderabad

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 .  

Meet Our Team:   

DTC’s many software engineering teams build applications for the web, mobile, tablets, connected TVs, consoles, and other streaming devices. Every customer starts their wonderful journey into the world of WBD through DTC’s Partner Integrations team. We ensure customers can seamlessly authenticate and authorize across all WBD brands. We are a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD’s future.   

We have setup an India Development Center to better support our global streaming services and   assist   international teams. We are looking for a   Senior   Staff Engineer to join the India Partner Integrations team and enable the global expansion of our services.  

Roles & Responsibilities :  

Has   a track record   of  designing, building, and   operating   multiple high-performance, stable, scalable platform systems  that have been successfully shipped to customers in production — including  global-scale services  across non-prod and prod environments.  

Drives best practices and sets standards  for multiple teams within a platform domain — not only their immediate team — including engineering excellence, operational excellence, and  security best practices  with a high bar for protecting customer data.  

Is a  key influencer in domain and org-level strategy , contributing significantly to  multi-quarter planning , roadmap prioritization, and technical vision alongside engineering and product leadership.  

Shows strong judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs — including  build vs. extend vs. deprecate  decisions and when to invest in novel solutions versus extending existing systems.  

Is a results-driven, creative thinker who drives innovation and produces  delightful, reliable experiences  for customers at scale.  

Is an advocate for  data-driven decision-making , has insatiable curiosity, and loves to invent and innovate to solve difficult, ambiguous problems —   modeling   this   behavior   for others.  

Has a strong point of view but   remains   open-minded;  drives consensus on architectural and technical direction  across strong technical peers in  global, distributed teams  through clear influence and sound judgment.  

Takes ownership of outcomes in a fast-paced environment and  consistently delivers durable results  — judged as much on personal impact as on the  positive effect on engineers and teams around them .  

Is a  collaborative technical leader  who makes other engineers more productive by sharing knowledge, simplifying complicated concepts, and  tie-breaking key technical decisions  when teams are stuck.  

Plays a  leading role in designing and developing major functional and architectural changes  to existing software systems or new ones — involving themselves and engineers  across team boundaries .  

Troubleshoots complex production issues by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack traces, and traces to pinpoint root cause, resolve incidents, and  identify   systemic learnings  that improve development processes, runbooks, playbooks, and system design.  

Provides guidance on  design, coding, operational best practices, and technical documentation  — including LADRs/ADRs and operational runbooks that enable teams to   operate   independently.  

Proposes and creates best practices proactively  where none exist — including  self-serve workflows with   appropriate guardrails  when manual or ad hoc processes   don't   scale.  

Makes  high-impact decisions  driving how and what software gets built — including standards for  large-volume transaction systems  and  data migration workflows , with focus on quality, precision, and accuracy metrics.  

Establishes and improves data-driven infrastructure and service KPIs  — performance, scale, availability, reliability, security — and uses them to guide prioritization and technical investment.  

Mentors   engineers  through Senior Software Engineer and Staff Engineer levels , overseeing designs, code quality, integration, and growth; provides input to leadership on development needs, growth opportunities, and promotion readiness.  

Brings  operational depth  — on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks — and helps lead or coordinate  cross-team incidents  when impact spans multiple services or teams.  

 

What to Bring :  

Bachelor's degree  with  13–16+ years  of total software development experience; strong CS fundamentals.  

Deep hands-on experience in  Golang (preferred)  and   proficiency   in   additional   languages.  

Experience and deep understanding of  Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS  (or comparable cloud provider experience; AWS preferred).  

Strong technical understanding of  Kubernetes-based microservice architectures , messaging services, database services,  API gateways, service mesh , and  infrastructure-as-code  technologies and processes.  

Great understanding of  distributed systems  challenges, microservice-based architectures, and asynchronous communication (e.g.,  gRPC   and Kafka ).  

Ability to implement  alerting, metrics, and logging  using tools such as  Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty  — and to operationalize observability into actionable KPIs.  

Practical knowledge of persistence and caching solutions such as  PostgreSQL, Redis,   ElasticSearch , Caffeine .  

Familiarity with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive programming; hands-on experience with frameworks such as  Spring   WebFlux ,   Vert.x , Node.js .  

Proven experience  building and   operating   global-scale platform services  in production and non-production environments.  

Track record   of  meaningful contribution to technical vision, strategy, and execution  in platform systems — influencing outcomes beyond a single team's backlog.  

Experience with  large-volume transaction systems  and  data migration workflows , with emphasis on quality, precision, accuracy, and regression safety.  

Knack for  operationalizing workflows into self-serve systems  with   appropriate guardrails .  

Operational experience  — on-call, incident response, playbooks — and comfort collaborating effectively with  remote peers across geographies and time zones .  

Excellent  written and verbal communication skills , with particular emphasis on  technical documentation  and clear explanation of complex ideas to varied audiences.  

 

What We Offer :  

A Great Place to work.  

Equal opportunity employer.  

Fast-track growth opportunities.  

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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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