Software Engineer II

Warner Bros. Discovery

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Location
Atlanta, GA
Posted
32 days ago
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About Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros. Discovery is a global media and entertainment company operating a broad portfolio of iconic content and brands including Warner Bros. film studio, HBO, CNN, Discovery Channel, and Max streaming service. Industry: Media & Entertainment

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TL;DR · Software Engineer II

As a Software Engineer II on the AI Systems team, you will design, build, and operate AI-powered applications and platform capabilities to support CNN’s digital transformation. You will work alongside machine learning engineers and product stakeholders to develop features such as LLM-based content understanding for ad targeting and brand safety, consumer-facing tools like article summaries, and internal workflows to improve productivity across editorial and engineering teams. Your daily responsibilities include authoring production-quality code, managing infrastructure as code, and integrating foundation models with appropriate guardrails. You will utilize Python along with Go, Java, or C++ to build high-availability systems. The role requires expertise in relational databases like Postgres, NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, and tools for prompt management, evaluation, caching, and deployment to ensure reliable, accurate results for a news organization.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Georgia?

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate AI-powered applications and the underlying platform capabilities for CNN.
  • Develop in-house LLM-based content understanding systems to replace vended products and improve classification quality.
  • Ship consumer-facing features such as article summaries and weather updates with high accuracy.
  • Manage and scale AI platform infrastructure including prompt management, evaluation, caching, and deployment.
  • Build internal AI-assisted workflows to increase productivity for editorial, product, and engineering teams.
  • Integrate foundation models into production applications with appropriate guardrails, monitoring, and evaluation.
  • Author and optimize production-quality code using best practices for Infrastructure as Code and continuous delivery.
  • Translate stakeholder requirements from editorial and product teams into reliable technical features.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field (or 2+ years of experience with a Master's degree).
  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience (if holding a Bachelor's degree).
  • Strong backend engineering experience with data-intensive applications at web scale.
  • Proficiency in Python and at least one of Go, Java, or C++.
  • Solid foundation in relational databases, NoSQL databases, and infrastructure as code.
  • Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship highly available, low-latency systems.
  • Experience integrating LLMs or foundation models into production applications (preferred).
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, or LLM observability (preferred).

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