Software Engineer II

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.

Software Engineer 2, Automation

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 Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team:

The Data & Audience organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and high quality data products vital to WBD, including flagship streaming product Max and non-streaming products such as Films Group, Sports, News and overall WBD eco-system.  Our mission is to foster unified analytics and drive data-driven use cases through a robust multi-tenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely, informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) is looking to hire a full-time Software Engineer II to join our Data Quality team. In this role, you'll play a key part in helping our partners define how data drives business impact, evaluate data reliability, and deliver solutions to validate and monitor data quality at scale. You'll apply advanced software engineering techniques to address complex, data-centric problems and develop automated solutions.

• Data Quality Engineering: Successful track record of instrumenting tools, automation, and processes at scale for frontend and backend Quality engineering activities (Unit, Integration, User journey, regression testing)
• Data Validation: Expertise in validating data quality, integrity, and consistency across different datasets.
• Analysis and Design - Analyze systems and data to identify data quality gap, data patterns, detect anomalies and provide solutions. 
• Big Data Technologies: Experience with big data frameworks like Hadoop, Apache Spark, and distributed computing environments.
• Effectively communicate – through technical documentation, and experience using various tools and technologies such as JIRA, Confluence, GitHub.
• Partner across Teams - Partner with analysts, engineers, subject matter experts, and product managers to apply WBD’s analytical and quality methods to satisfy stakeholder needs.

What to Bring:

• 3-5 years of hands-on software and quality engineering experience focused on automating Data Validation at scale
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language - Python, Java, JavaScript, or Scala
• Strong proficiency in SQL
• Experience working with streaming data platforms (Kafka, Kinesis) and distributed data frameworks (Spark, Flink).
• Experience working with cloud data warehouses like Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery.
• Experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Expertise in automation testing for responsive web apps, mobile apps (iOS/Android), Connected TV platforms (Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV).
• Experience with automation tools like Selenium, Appium and CICD systems like Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab CI
• Familiarity with real-world ML systems (configuration, data collection, data verification, feature extraction, resource and process management, analytics, training, serving, validation, experimentation, monitoring).
• Familiarity with Gen AI based test automation, models, processes and tools
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of standard quality best practices, techniques and methodologies to drive continuous quality improvements

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.