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Storytelling is, and will always be, the heart of what we do at Skydance.
Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.
Here, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day.
If you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!
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Sr Software Engineer - Java (Consumer Team) Hyderabad 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: DTC’s many software engineering teams build applications for the web, mobile, tablets, connected TVs, consoles, and other streaming devices. Every customer starts their wonderful journey into the world of WBD through DTC’s Identity and Growth teams. We ensure customers can seamlessly authenticate and authorize across all WBD brands. We are a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD’s future. We are setting up an India Development Center to better support our global streaming services and assist international teams. We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join the India Identity and Growth teams and enable the global expansion of our services. Roles & Responsibilities:
- Build high-performance, stable, and scalable systems deployed in production.
- Always champion engineering and operational excellence.
- Drive best practices and set standards within the team.
- Influence the team’s strategy and contribute significantly to planning.
- Exercise good judgment when balancing immediate and long-term business needs.
- Creatively think and innovate to deliver delightful experiences for customers.
- Always demonstrate data-driven decision-making and continuously seek solutions to challenging problems.
- Hold strong opinions while remaining open to other perspectives.
- Consistently deliver results, with quality, in a fast-paced environment.
- Collaborate with peers, share knowledge, and contribute to technical decisions.
- Lead major functional changes in existing or new software systems.
- Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and improve processes.
- Document code, designs, and processes for clarity.
- Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices.
- Establish best practices and quality standards within the team.
- Mentor junior engineers and positively influence the team.
What to Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree with 5 – 8 years of experience as a software developer.
- Strong proficiency in Java (8+) with experience building scalable, cloud-native, microservices-based systems.
- Experience in building and operating global-scale large platform services in non-prod and prod environments.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones.
- Strong CS fundamentals; strong technical understanding of Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, REST/gRPC communication patterns, caching solutions, messaging services, DB services, API gateways, service mesh, and infrastructure-as-code technologies/processes.
- Direct experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, or other).
- Experience establishing and improving data-driven infrastructure and service KPIs such as performance, scale, availability, reliability, security.
- A strong understanding of security best practices and a high bar for protecting customer data.
- Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty.
- Experience with persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, and Caffeine
- Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of programming. Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Vert.x, Node.js.
- Operational Experience to run services globally; on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with emphasis on technical documentation.
What We Offer:
- A Great Place to work.
- Equal opportunity employer
- Fast track growth opportunities
About Skydance
Skydance is a next-generation global media and entertainment company, comprised of three business segments: Studios, Direct-to-Consumer, and TV Media. Skydance's portfolio unites legendary brands, including Paramount, Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max, Paramount+, Pluto TV, CBS, CNN, CBS Sports, TNT Sports, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, MTV, Food Network, BET, HGTV, and Comedy Central.
Some Important Details
We embrace 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. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable law.
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