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Senior Software Engineer-Backend, Search & Personalization

Discovery Channel

2-4 years

Hyderabad / Secunderabad

1 vacancy

Discovery Channel

posted 2mon ago

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Job Description

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.

Senior Software Engineer-Backend, Search Personalization- Hyderabad, India.

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the worlds 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 Discoverys leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com .

Roles Responsibilities:

We are looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to support, build and scale the personalization and search platforms for the global streaming app Max as well as ongoing and future streaming initiatives. You are excited about working in a fast-moving environment that fosters engineering and operational excellence with continuous development, deployment, experimentation, quality assurance, and collaboration. You will bring an obsession with our customers along with skills for rapid feature iteration. In your role, you will be working in a team of passionate software engineers, machine engineers and applied researchers contributing to a system that serves 100+ million users worldwide.

Contribute to building and scaling a recommendation system that powers a state-of-the-art personalization experience to users across Max, Discovery+ and other WBD offerings
Collaborate with applied data science and machine learning engineers to improve quality, stability, resilience of search and personalization platforms.
Author, test, review, and optimize production-level code in Java/Go and Python while executing best practices in version control and code integration.
Motivate, inspire and create a culture of experimentation and data-driven innovation while constantly striving to be an advocate for doing what is right for our customers
Contribute technical documentation to support knowledge transfer and sharing
Troubleshoot issues in recommendation systems as front-line support

What to Bring :

5+ years of experience developing scalable solutions, frameworks, tools, and strategies across backend services
5+ years of strong coding experience using Java or Python
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.
Has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
Strong knowledge and experience in multiple test types including unit, functional, integration, API, load and performance tests.
Experience in private and public API design and cross-service integrations
Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, design patterns, building maintainable code, performance)
Familiarity with a range of database technologies, encompassing both SQL and NoSQL options.
Usage and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS/GCP services.
Experience building, operating, and owning services. Implementing operational excellence mechanisms including alerting, metrics, and logging
Ability to technically collaborate with partners
Excellent written and verbal communications skills, be comfortable to contribute to technical documentation and on-call support
Experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc.
Familiarity with agile practices and processes
Ability to work with minimal instructions on day-to-day work, able to consume and self- start with general instructions on new assignments. Participates in an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.

Preferred:

DevOps experience (AWS preferred) architecting, configuring cloud technology stacks (Network Security, API Gateways, VPCs, CDNs, Kafka/MKS, Kubernetes, EKS, Jenkins configuration, CI/CD configurations etc.)

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 the diversity of our society and the world around us. 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.

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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