Software Engineer II - Platform Engineering

Software Engineer II - Platform Engineering ( Observability Team), Bangalore

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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 Engineer II - Platform Engineering ( Observability Team), Bangalore 

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 Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com 

Meet Our Team: 
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 MAX, which run on connected TVs, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets, consoles, PCs, and other streaming devices. 

Observability teams play a critical role in ensuring these streaming products and services run smoothly and efficiently at scale. Our specialized teams focus on areas such as Logging, Metrics and Service Catalog. 

Roles & Responsibilities: 
As a Platform Engineer, you will design and build a cloud based custom Observability Platform, leveraging software-driven approaches to tackle complex, data-intensive challenges. This platform is a core engineering system that empowers the engineering community with advanced tools and capabilities to troubleshoot, optimize, and gain deeper insights into their services.  

Within Platform engineering, you will bring in engineering practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and automated pipelines, ensuring the platform is reliable, scalable, and easy to adopt. You will collaborate with service teams across the organization to shape adoption, define standards, and improve platform capabilities.  

The ideal candidate is a creative thinker, passionate about technology, and driven to innovate. They should demonstrate data-driven decision-making, curiosity, and a love for solving complex challenges. If you enjoy problem-solving at scale, building scalable software to automate infrastructure, troubleshooting, and are technically proficient, this is the role for you.    

This job description represents software development role available within the Observability at WBD.  This includes the following platform areas:   
Logging 
Metrics 
Service Catalog 

• You work within Platform team and be a subject matter expert on one or more Platform components  
• You build multiple stable, scalable feature changes that can be successfully shipped to customers in production. Your software contributions in production are the model for highly available, low latency, and efficient software.   
• You participate in an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.  
• You influence the technical vision and priorities for your team.  
• You demonstrate good software development practices.   
• You provide technical documentation describing your contribution and contributing enhancements to your team’s best practices.  
  

What to Bring: 
The ideal candidate has a passion for technology.  You likely have been a software developer in your past developing features for customers in either a customer facing application or backend service.  However, during your tenure, you have found interest in serving your fellow software developers through innovative platforms, tools, services, and processes that help them be productive.      You also have amazing skills that allow you to take requirements to produce scalable, reliable, and easy to understand architecture.    

• At least 3- 5 years of overall experience in software, systems, and infrastructure.   
• At least 1-2 years of experience managing public cloud infrastructure with AWS, implementation, and maintenance of different environments.     
• Strong CS fundamentals and a track record of implementing highly reliable automation using any scripting or programming language such as Python/Go/Typescript.   
• Hands-on experience with at least one IaC tool (e.g. CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, Lambda)    
• Operational experience (i.e. on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks, gameday’s, etc).   
• Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones.   
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation (including diagramming)   

Good to Have: 

• Experience with a variety of cloud services like OpenSearch, AMP, network, storage, Victoria Metrics etc.   
• Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes or AWS EKS.   
• Hands-on experience with automating development workflow pipelines.  
• Understanding of distributed systems, microservice architecture, kafka, logging/metric/tracing platforms (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL etc), and security.   
  

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.

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.

Experience Level

Mid Level