Staff Software Engineer

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. 

• 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. 

• 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 production deployment — without needing someone to break it down for you. 

• Track record of cross-team technical influence: you've driven adoption of platform capabilities across engineering organizations that didn't report to you. 

• Strong communicator: your design docs are clear, your technical presentations land with non-technical audiences, and your code reviews leave engineers better than you found them. 

• 5+ years building and operating CI/CD systems, with depth on both the build (CI) and deployment (CD) sides of the lifecycle. 

• 5+ years with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable systems — including designing reusable pipeline patterns and enforcing organizational standards at scale. 

• 3+ years hands-on with build systems (e.g. Gradle, Maven, Bazel, npm/yarn, Rush, Make) and a solid understanding of dependency trees, reproducible builds, and build performance at scale. 

• Experience with artifact management platforms (JFrog Artifactory, ECR, or equivalent) — lifecycle policies, repository governance, access control, and artifact promotion across environments. 

• 5+ years with AWS, including EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, and networking. Strong understanding of how cloud services compose into production-grade delivery infrastructure. 

• 3+ years with IaC tools (CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation) — not just authoring templates but designing reusable, maintainable infrastructure patterns. 

• 5+ years hands-on with Kubernetes (K8s / AWS EKS), including deployment lifecycle management, rollout strategies, workload identity, and cluster-level troubleshooting. 

• 5+ years as a software developer using at least one of: Go/TypeScript (strongly preferred), Kotlin/Java, or Python. Solid command of how applications are structured, built, and operated in production. 

• Strong CS fundamentals and a track record of implementing highly reliable automation and tooling. 

• Experience managing GitHub at organizational scale — Actions workflows, org-level policies, OIDC / federated identity integration, and security controls. 

• Operational experience: on-call rotations, incident response, postmortem facilitation, playbook authoring, and gameday execution. 

• 2+ years collaborating with remote teams across geographies and time zones. 

• Excellent written communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation and architecture diagrams.