As television and media habits change, our mission remains true to the principles that founded Discovery – every day we seek to ignite people’s curiosity to engage, entertain and enlighten the world around them through amazing viewing experiences.

The Direct to Consumer Group (DTC) is a technology company within Discovery that is responsible for building a global streaming video platform to support a broad collection of Discovery’s diverse brands around the world including Discovery, TLC, Food Network, Investigation Discovery, Animal Planet, Science Channel, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more.

DTC’s software engineering teams build applications for the web, mobile, tablets, connected TVs, consoles, and other streaming devices. Those applications are backed by a fleet of modern, cloud-native microservices deployed to Kubernetes within AWS. It is a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to Discovery’s future.

What You'll Do

As an engineer in the Developer Automation group within DTC, you’ll be joining a group that is responsible for building a truly global, self-service platform to enable DTC’s growing number of engineering teams to build, test, deploy, and manage the complete operational life cycle of their services in a fully autonomous fashion.

Your role will focus on leading the development efforts of one or more portions of the platform core and the common platform services. You will help drive technical decision-making, particularly with regard to the architectural direction of the platform components. You’ll help solve problems related to complex cloud-infrastructure automation, multi-region networking, cross-cluster service meshes, authentication/authorization, and the management of large-scale Kubernetes cluster deployments across many AWS accounts.

As a lead engineer, you will help set the tone for how your team operates. You’ll emphasize modern, rigorous software development practices that emphasize testability, repeatability, and self-service automation. You’ll conduct code reviews and mentor more junior developers. You’ll openly collaborate with other teams’ leads and help raise the bar of engineering excellence across the entire organization.

Who You Are

You bring passion and enthusiasm to your engineering team. You have a track record of shipping quality code to production on a frequent and consistent basis. You thrive under minimal supervision with the ability to self-motivate and self-organize within the organizational structure. You have experience running production infrastructure that supports multiple systems in a scalable, stable, and performant manner. You measure everything, make decisions based on data, are consumer-obsessed, and take immense pride in your work.

Your Technical Skills

The ideal candidate for this role will have a wide breadth of experience across the entire software stack, as well as deep subject matter expertise in at least one technology from each of the following groups:

Infrastructure:

Containerization & Container Orchestration at Scale (e.g. Kubernetes)
Container Networking & Distributed Service Meshes (e.g. Istio, Linkerd)
Cloud Infrastructure Automation (AWS strongly preferred) (e.g. CDK, Crossplane)
Linux System Administration

Software Development:

Distributed Systems Development (e.g. asynchronous communication patterns, consensus algorithms, distributed transactions)
Services Programming (e.g. Go-lang, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Ruby)
Systems Programming (e.g. C, C++, Rust)

Additional Skills

Your technical expertise should match well to the following:

Experience leading the development of large-scale projects, e.g. breaking down tasks, delegating work, assisting in the creation of roadmaps and work back plans
Deep understanding of distributed systems in Kubernetes
Hands-on experience with multiple IaC tools (e.g. CDK, Terraform, Crossplane)
Experience with some of the frameworks and tools our development teams use day to day (i.e. gRPC, Spring Boot, Kafka)
Experience with the development and operation of high throughput, low-latency systems
Hands-on experience with automating development workflow pipelines (CI/CD)
Operational experience (i.e. on-call rotation, incident response)
Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and timezones
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation (including diagramming)
Strong CS fundamentals

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Keeping at the forefront of content consumption

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My team operates as a mini R&D center and brings forth what we find useful. It’s all about speed, research, exploration and how we make it actionable.

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PILLARS OF SUPPORT

Leaders don’t just manage, but empower

At her first design review for home brand Magnolia, Lantin noticed something she described a rarity: The audience was overwhelmingly female. “It was really refreshing that Magnolia, with Joanna Gaines at the helm, already prioritized female leadership and vision,” she said. For Lantin, this powerful realization underscored the broader culture of support and empowerment, which she expands on by mentoring colleagues.

I make sure I’m available to all my team members and know that I can offer a specific type of help or mentorship to the women on my team by giving them all of the tools that can help them navigate their careers.

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PEOPLE-DRIVEN TECH

Staying focused on the human element

Steering engineering for brands such as Food Network Kitchen as well as Discovery websites, Ma helps the organization scale in a fast-moving space. But, for Ma — who embraces a “lean startup” mindset — the challenges transcend tech. “It’s all about people. We build a team of subject matter experts who know areas of a product inside-out, while everyone on the team understands the bigger picture,” he said.

Engineering problems are always people problems, and there’s nothing a great team of empowered engineers can’t solve.

Martin Ma

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What are Warner Bros. Discovery Perks + Benefits

Warner Bros. Discovery Benefits Overview

Warner Bros Discovery offers a comprehensive set of benefits and perks to support employees in their personal and professional lives. Some program highlights include:

• Local medical, dental, and vision programs in many countries around the world.
• On-site wellness and fitness centers across several of our office locations.
• Family support programs. In the U.S., additional services include on-site childcare in certain offices, backup childcare services, family caregiver leave, adoption, surrogacy, and cryopreservation assistance, and more.
• Tools and resources to support the mental wellbeing of our employees and their dependents, including mental health counselors and 24/7 access to free, confidential support through our Employee Assistance Program administrators.
• Products and services to support financial wellbeing including financial planning tools, and a 401(k) savings plan in the U.S.
• Flexible work arrangements around the globe, allowing employees to better balance work and personal commitments.
• Global learning, leadership & organization programs to inspire, equip, and empower our people to thrive. These programs and resources are accessible to everyone at whatever stage they are in their career.

Culture

Volunteer in local community

Partners with nonprofits

Open door policy

OKR operational model

Team based strategic planning

Open office floor plan

Employee resource groups

Employee-led culture committees

Hybrid work model

In-person all-hands meetings

Summer hours