Staff Software Engineer

About this role

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.

At HBO Max, storytelling takes center stage. We’re one of the world’s most iconic entertainment brands — home to bold originals and unforgettable characters. While audiences binge award-winning content, breaking news, and sports around the clock, our teams stay busy at work creating what’s next in streaming. From Succession, Euphoria, and The Sopranos to global franchises like Game of Thrones and Harry Potter, our content sparks conversation and shapes culture.

HBO Max delivers boundary-pushing stories across genres and platforms, connecting millions of viewers across 90 countries globally— and we’re just getting started. We're home to the most talked about shows and movies, granting audiences access to the worlds of HBO, Harry Potter, DC, Warner Bros., ID, Adult Swim, A24, and more. Turn your streaming obsession into a career— we’re hiring!

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.   

Software development teams in WBD’s Direct-to-consumer (DTC) division build and deliver applications and services powering the customer experience of products such as HBO MAX, Discovery+, Bleacher Report, TNT etc., which run on connected TVs, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets, consoles, PCs, and other streaming devices.   

The Delivery & Deploy team within Release and Delivery Engineering owns the final leg of WBD's software delivery   platform — the pipelines, tooling, and automation that take software from a passing build to a safe production   release. We serve 2,000+ engineers across DTC's streaming products, providing a simple, reliable path to production   built on modern practices that emphasize testability, repeatability, and self-service automation.  

Your New Role  

You are a technically broad Staff engineer who takes complex, ambiguous platform problems from design to production. You've built and operated the infrastructure that lets thousands of engineers ship software safely — CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, deployment automation, and release tooling — and you've led the cross-org technical conversations that made adoption stick.  

You don't just build for your immediate team.

You develop working architectures, write the design docs that align stakeholders, break down the work for your team, and mentor engineers from concept through delivery. You've owned systems end to end: from the first diagram on a whiteboard to the runbook that keeps it running at 2 AM.  

You're as effective influencing direction with leadership as you are reviewing a pull request. Your breadth — spanning build systems, delivery pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling — lets you connect dots that specialists miss and make better tradeoffs because you understand the full picture.  

You are judged as much on the positive impact you have on engineers around you as on your own output.  

Your Role Accountabilities

• Drive technical direction across delivery and deployment platform capabilities: setting the architectural roadmap, making build-vs-extend decisions, and ensuring the platform evolves to meet growing scale and organizational needs.  

• Lead design-to-production on complex, cross-team initiatives — authoring design documents, running technical alignment across stakeholder groups, and owning delivery through to production readiness.  

• Own critical platform programs — including resilience and disaster recovery planning for CI/CD infrastructure, and driving adoption of automated release safety mechanisms across engineering teams.  

• Build and evolve CI/CD tooling — pipelines, build systems, artifact management, release automation, and developer-facing interfaces that give engineering teams self-service control over how their software is built and shipped.  

• Establish operational excellence standards: on-call practices, incident response playbooks, gameday facilitation, and the documentation culture that makes hard systems understandable.  

• Mentor engineers on the team — reviewing designs, pairing on hard problems, and modeling what Senior and Staff-level ownership looks like.  

• Represent the team in cross-org technical forums, vendor relationships, and architecture review processes.  

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years of experience leading the technical direction of complex systems, involving yourself and other engineers. You make good decisions on architecture, know when to build new vs. extend existing, and are persuasive in delivering your recommendations to teams and stakeholders through data and facts.  

• Demonstrated ability to take projects from ambiguous problem statement through architecture, stakeholder alignment, implementation, and produc

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