Senior Software Developer

WarnerMedia; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 148,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media and entertainment company in Ottawa is seeking a Senior Software Developer - SRE to join their growing team. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in building scalable and resilient systems, with a strong background in SRE practices. You will be accountable for maintaining high-performance systems and mentoring fellow engineers. This role offers competitive compensation and a vibrant, inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Annual bonuses

Retirement savings plan

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development and platform teams.
• High proficiency with containerized microservice architectures.
• Extensive experience in large-scale production cloud native systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable and reliable systems.
• Mentor senior engineers in best practices.
• Contribute to upskilling and hiring for the team.

Skills

System design and implementation

Performance engineering

Resiliency testing

Kubernetes-based microservice architectures

AWS services

CI/CD tools

Observability tools

Tools

APMs

Infrastructure-as-code

Job description

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of.

Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

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.

Your New Role

DTC's many software engineering teams build applications for the web, mobile, tablets, connected TVs, consoles, and other streaming devices. DTC's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams are responsible for ensuring these systems stay up and operational. Warner Bros. Discovery's approach to SRE is proactive vs. reactive. The team focuses on building and supporting prevention systems and processes over incident response. SRE builds systems that assess Warner Bros. Discovery's resilience risk posture, enable auto-remediation and failover, and partner directly with service development teams to ensure the robustness of their architectures.

We are a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to Warner Bros. Discovery's future. The Senior Software Developer - SRE needs to be both a strong individual contributor in designing, building and managing highly scalable and resilient systems and a thought leader for the SRE organization.

Your Role Accountabilities

• You play a senior role in the domain of scalable and reliable system design and implementation, performance engineering and resiliency testing. You are known for your subject matter expertise in each of these specializations.
• You are responsible for maintaining a platform-based mindset, the systems you design must be architecturally sound with a focus on reliability and ensure ease of use and adoption across the organization.
• You contribute to your team's strategy within the SRE domain and collaborate with platform and service teams to inform planning and drive technical decisions that align with team goals.
• You will build multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• You make trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
• You ensure uptime and performance at peak workflow hours by assisting with system capacity planning and ensuring appropriate instance type allocation.
• You provide mentoring to senior engineers and assist them with adoption of best practices to respective business services.
• You describe your design, code, and architectural decisions to junior engineers, principal engineers, and leadership alike. You embrace constructive feedback from these groups and adapt to align with organizational standards and objectives.
• You offer enhancements to best practices, design, and architecture improvements, and as feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or recurring encouragement.
• You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and resolve it. You will also work with other teams to avoid recurrence.
• You will contribute to upskilling and hiring for the team.

Qualifications & Expectations

• 5+ years of experience working with software development and platform teams to design, build and implement highly scalable and resilient systems.
• High proficiency and technical leadership with technologies on our stack including containerized Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, AWS services, CI/CD tools, performance testing tools, APMs, messaging services, DB services, API gateways, service mesh, repeatable self-serve gitops-based deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code technologies/processes.
• You have extensive experience in working on large-scale production cloud native systems on public cloud.
• You have extensive experience in industry standard observability tools and technologies.
• You have designed, built, and implemented systems and frameworks that validate the scalability of large-scale systems (load/stress and fault-injection testing).
• You have experience establishing and raising the bar for technical best practices for your team.
• You have acquired subject-matter expertise over one or more production software systems and demonstrated a pattern of shipping high-quality feature changes in that or those system(s).
• You solve scalability and reliability problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.
• You deliver high-quality results the first time and improve code, documentation, design and strategies with each iteration. Trust in your capabilities extends beyond your team and into the broader organization.

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 a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status 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.

Compensation and Benefits

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $109,700.00 - $159,700.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

This position is open for an existing position vacancy.