Staff Software Engineer

Warner Bros. Discovery

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bellevue, WA
Salary
$165,690–$307,710 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
6 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $237k
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This role pays more than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $174,587–$221,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $237k versus about $198k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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

Warner Bros. Discovery currently has 58 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $132,300–$245,700 across 24 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer

The Staff Software Engineer joins the Delivery & Deploy team within the Release and Delivery Engineering group of the Direct-to-consumer division. This role involves taking complex platform problems from design to production, owning the final leg of the software delivery platform, and building the pipelines, tooling, and automation that enable thousands of engineers to ship software safely. You will develop working architectures, author design documents, and mentor engineers while managing CI/CD systems, artifact management, and cloud infrastructure. Key technologies include GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven, Bazel, npm, JFrog Artifactory, AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3), and IaC tools like Terraform or CDK. You will also utilize Go, TypeScript, Kotlin, Java, or Python to solve problems related to testability, repeatability, and self-service automation for streaming products.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 409 postings across 38 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Drive technical direction for delivery and deployment platforms by setting architectural roadmaps and making build-vs-extend decisions.
  • Lead design-to-production for complex cross-team initiatives by authoring design documents and aligning stakeholders.
  • Own critical platform programs including resilience, disaster recovery planning, and automated release safety mechanisms.
  • Build and evolve CI/CD tooling, build systems, and artifact management to provide engineers with self-service control.
  • Establish operational excellence standards for on-call practices, incident response playbooks, and gameday facilitation.
  • Mentor engineers by reviewing designs, pairing on hard problems, and modeling Staff-level ownership.
  • Represent the team in cross-org technical forums, vendor relationships, and architecture review processes.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience leading the technical direction of complex systems and making architectural decisions.
  • 5+ years of experience building and operating CI/CD systems, including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable platforms.
  • 5+ years of experience with AWS services including EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, and networking.
  • 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes (K8s / AWS EKS) including deployment lifecycle management and cluster-level troubleshooting.
  • 5+ years of experience as a software developer using Go/TypeScript (strongly preferred), Kotlin/Java, or Python.
  • 3+ years of experience with build systems such as Gradle, Maven, Bazel, npm/yarn, Rush, or Make.
  • 3+ years of experience with IaC tools such as CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
  • 2+ years of experience collaborating with remote teams across different geographies and time zones.

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