This role pays more than
64%
of similar roles. Most pay
$192,132–$250,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$237k
versus about
$221k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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
55 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$131,985–$245,115
across 38 roles with salary data.
As a Staff Software Engineer within the Delivery & Deploy team of the Direct-to-consumer division, you will tackle complex, ambiguous platform problems to ensure safe software delivery for streaming products like HBO Max and Discovery+. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of critical infrastructure, including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, deployment automation, and release tooling. Your role involves setting architectural roadmaps, authoring design documents, mentoring engineers, and establishing operational excellence standards such as incident response playbooks. You will work extensively with AWS (EKS, Lambda, S3), Kubernetes, and IaC tools like Terraform or CDK. The technical stack includes GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and build systems like Gradle, Maven, or Bazel. You will utilize Go, TypeScript, Kotlin, Java, or Python to build reliable automation for a large-scale engineering organization across diverse streaming devices.
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