Senior Software Engineer -Localization (GLP Team), Bangalore

Warner Bros. Discovery; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-track growth opportunities

Equal-opportunity employer

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Global Localization Platform team in Bengaluru, India. This role requires expertise in backend and frontend development, specifically with Node.js and TypeScript. The engineer will own major components of the localization platform, tackle complex problems, and mentor junior team members.

The ideal candidate will have 5-9 years of experience and a strong background in cloud services and DevOps practices. The company promotes a culture of inclusivity and equal opportunities for all candidates.

Qualifications

• 5-9 years of experience in software engineering with focus on backend and frontend systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services including Lambda and S3.
• Proven mentoring skills and effective communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality features at scale.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of localization infrastructure.
• Mentor junior engineers and support their growth.

Skills

Advanced backend development (Node.js)

Advanced frontend development (TypeScript)

Localization workflow experience

AWS cloud services expertise

Microservice architecture understanding

DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes)

Strong focus on system observability

Tools

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Elasticsearch

Job description

Senior Software Engineer – Localization (GLP Team), Bangalore

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Global Localization Platform team in Bangalore, India. The platform provides an automated string management system that handles user-facing text across all Warner Bros. Discovery products, streamlining localizations through the Studio suite.

Roles & Responsibilities

• You are a recognized subject matter expert in one or more production systems.
• You independently design, build, and ship high-quality features at scale.
• You tackle complex problems with diverse technical dimensions, clarify ambiguous requirements, and propose sound, scalable solutions.
• You operate with a high degree of autonomy, requiring minimal oversight.
• You write robust, maintainable, and well-tested code that meets functional and non-functional requirements.
• You continuously improve system quality, engineering practices, codebase health, observability, and documentation.
• You actively contribute to an inclusive team environment.
• You persuade peers through thoughtful design and code reviews, adapting your communication style to different audiences.
• You frequently interact with stakeholders and adjacent teams, aligning cross-functional efforts through strong technical writing and documentation.
• You mentor less experienced engineers to help them become productive and successful team members.
• You design, develop, and maintain scalable backend and frontend services that power WBD's localization infrastructure, enabling fast, high-quality multilingual content delivery across platforms such as HBO Max, Discovery+, and CNN.
• You own major technical components of the Global Localization platform, contributing to architectural decisions and proposing solutions for performance, scalability, and reliability challenges.
• You lead by example in writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code across technologies including Node.js, Java, React, and TypeScript.
• You drive feature implementation from idea to production—breaking down requirements, proposing designs, estimating effort, writing code, creating tests, and monitoring after deployment.
• You participate in code reviews and design discussions to raise the technical bar and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
• You contribute to building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure configurations, and cloud deployments using AWS services and DevOps tooling.
• You lead troubleshooting and resolving complex production issues—analyzing logs, metrics, traces, and system behavior to identify root causes and define long-term improvements.
• You continuously improve observability and system resilience through real-time dashboards, proactive alerting, and fault-tolerance patterns.
• You work closely with product managers, localization experts, and other engineers to deliver robust, user-friendly, and well-integrated features.
• You support and mentor junior engineers, promoting technical growth and knowledge sharing.
• You stay up to date with modern engineering practices, tools, and architectural patterns, driving adoption of relevant innovations.
• You actively optimize team processes to improve efficiency and quality.

What to Bring

• 5-9 years of professional software engineering experience delivering robust, high-scale backend and frontend systems in production environments.
• Advanced backend development experience with Node.js and advanced frontend development with TypeScript.
• Mandatory localization workflow experience.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services, particularly Serverless, Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and EventBridge.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture, asynchronous systems, and communication protocols (REST, gRPC, event-driven).
• Experience with DevOps practices including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Practical knowledge of databases: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Strong focus on system observability—comfortable setting up dashboards, defining alerts, and analyzing operational data using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Kibana, and Grafana.
• Familiarity with localization or internationalization challenges (ICU format, string management, translation workflows, Unicode handling) is a plus.
• Proven ability to break down complex problems, design modular solutions, and communicate technical decisions clearly.
• Demonstrated mentoring ability and active participation in raising team quality through reviews, pairing, and documentation.
• Effective communicator across disciplines—presenting and justifying technical approaches to peers and stakeholders.
• Experience working in agile, product-driven environments and contributing to planning and prioritization.

What We Offer

• Equal-opportunity employer.
• Fast-track growth opportunities.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, pregnancy, disability, or any other protected category. If you have a disability and need accommodations during the application or interview process, visit our accessibility page for instructions.