Warner bros. discovery

Overview

The Commerce group is part of the Core & Data organization within WBD’s Global Tech division, providing backend APIs that power all clients and handling all aspects of monetizing streaming services.

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.

Requirements & Eligibility

• Proficient in Java or other JVM languages with 5- 8 years of total experience.
• Experience and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Great understanding of distributed systems challenges, micro-service-based architectures, and asynchronized communication (e.g. using gRPC and Kafka).
• Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty.
• Practical knowledge of persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Caffeine.
• Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of programming. Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Vert.x, Node.js.

Key Responsibilities

• Has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• Drives best practices and sets standards for the team.
• Is a key influencer in the team’s strategy and contributes significantly to the team planning.
• Shows good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
• Troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it.
• Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team.