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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Warner Bros. Discovery
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $165,690.0 - $307,710.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Federated Identity Management, Github, Gradle, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Apache Maven, OpenID, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Software Deployment, TypeScript, Apache Yarn, Grafana, Cloudformation, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Build Tools, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Api Gateway, Terraform, Serverless Computing, AWS EKS, Jenkins, Artifactory
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_turnerbc-WAMEGLOBALR000107437EXTERNALENGLOBAL

## About the Role

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. **Good to Have** + Experience with progressive delivery patterns: canary releases, blue/green deployments, automated rollback triggers. + Observability experience in a delivery context: using metrics, traces, and logs to understand pipeline health, failure rates, and developer experience at scale.
Hands-on experience with Prometheus and Grafana to instrument, observe, and alert on platform metrics. + Exposure to developer experience measurement - DORA metrics, deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate. + Experience with serverless/Lambda platform patterns on AWS. **How We Get Things Done...** Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done.

## Description

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. + Represent the team in cross-org technical forums, vendor relationships, and architecture review processes. **Qualifications & Experience** + 5+ years of experience leading the technical direction of complex systems, involving yourself and other engineers.