Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.
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.
Company Overview
Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.
Department Overview
Studio & Industry Engagement (SIE) is responsible for building and managing applications that are used by other businesses and professional individuals to interact with Warner Bros. Discovery. These applications run the gamut of: journalist access to images, in-person and virtual red carpet screening, mobile based screening apps for award voting, talent management for production scheduling and ability for employees to stream our entire WBD catalog.
Role Overview
The Senior Manager, Software Engineering is responsible for managing a team that is responsible for the Content Management System (CMS) and API that manages the platforms used for streaming our content to internal users and external business partners. The position requires a unique combination of startup-like resourcefulness, technical expertise and a background in video streaming.
The role focuses on engineering/development, architecture, technology strategy and helping to shape the evolution of the department's engineering culture. This position will report to the Director of Software Engineering.
The right candidate should be comfortable in an open, fluid, fast-paced environment and bring an energetic and creative approach to the work, spanning high-level strategy as well as in-the-trenches execution.
The Daily

• Recruit and build out the engineering team for Studio & Industry Engagement's streaming platform team.
• Iterate on existing features and build new features for the content streaming CMS & API
• Build and manage cutting-edge capabilities utilizing machine learning and data science (e.g., processing video content for metadata, etc.)
• Participate in cross team collaboration to architect solutions assisting with application consolidation.
• Mentor, guide, coach, coordinate training opportunities and support individual growth and technical skills across the engineering team.
• Leverage industry best practices and tools to continually improve teams' ability to build, operate and maintain applications.
• Ensure that technical solutions are in line with established standards in respect to architecture, security, corporate governance, coding standards, monitoring, logging, testing and service enablement.

The Essentials

• 10 - 15 years working in a technology role with at least 5 years of experience in leadership managing software engineering teams.
• Programming experience with modern languages
• Advanced technological understanding of cloud services and technologies. (AWS preferred)
• Experienced with video streaming technologies
• Bias for action, a sense of urgency and willingness to jump in and execute tactically.
• Experience working in an agile and matrixed environment.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent methodical problem solving and influencing skills
• Highly tuned emotional intelligence, good listener, and empathetic towards teams and partners

The Desired

• Java programming experience
• Modern API architecture background
• Azure cloud knowledge (in addition with AWS experience)
• Content Delivery Network (CDN) usage (ideally Limelight, Akamai and Cloudflare)
• Knowledge of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technological usage & implementation
• Understanding of media file packages and usage in transcoding and streaming

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.
The Legal Bits...
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. $145,250.00 - $269,750.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at [email protected].