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...

Our team is at the heart of the cutting edge streaming platform, providing customers worldwide with top quality experiences. 

We are responsible for playback, playback reporting, keeping track of customer capabilities, doing entitlement checks, and providing services for bootstrapping front-end clients and for the shared configuration of all Warner Bros Discovery’s direct-to-consumer products used across our global platform. 

We are a team of 7 engineers located in Stockholm and London with various backgrounds and a passion for building the next generation streaming platform using new and emerging technologies. We believe in being quick and agile, adding value to our business and customers every day. Our team members have opportunities to learn and be creative, building and accomplishing what others only dream of. 

Our user base is growing rapidly, with millions of new customers every year, and we need to be on top constantly improving performance and resilience. So we are ready to continue to innovate on the platform and expand to 100+ countries globally. 

Come join our talented team of experienced engineers, working together on solving the most rewarding challenges in an autonomous and friendly work environment! 

Your Role Accountabilities...

Has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.

Drives best practices and sets standards for the team.

Is a key influencer in the team’s strategy and contributes significantly to the team planning.

Shows good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.

Is a result-driven creative thinker who drives innovation and produces delightful experiences for our customers.

Is an advocate for data-driven decision-making, has an insatiable curiosity, and loves to invent and innovate to solve difficult problems.

Has a strong point of view but remains open-minded.

Takes ownership of their work and consistently delivers results in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications and Experience...

Proficient in Java or other JVM languages.

Experience and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

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

Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty.

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

Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of programming. Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Vert.x, Node.js.

You are a collaborative leader who makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.

You play a leading role in designing and developing major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other engineers.

You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.

You show good judgement in making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.

You troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc., to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it. You identify root causes and learnings to improve both development processes and system design.

Guide design, coding, and operational best practices.

You propose and create best practices proactively where none exist.

You make high-impact decisions, driving how and what software gets built.

You mentor junior engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team.

Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on the engineers around you.

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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.

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.