Manager, Software Engineering

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.; Hyderabad City Taluka; On-site; PKR 7,959,000 - 11,143,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media and entertainment company is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Hyderabad location to lead a high-performing team. Responsibilities include developing unified authentication services and ensuring operational excellence in cloud-based platforms. Candidates should have 10-15 years of experience, a strong technical background, and proven leadership in software development.

Benefits

Great workplace

Equal opportunity employer

Fast-track growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience in the industry and at least 3-5 years leading software development teams.
• Record of ownership of an engineer-first software service/product.
• Experience in large-volume transaction systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a high-performing team of engineers.
• Develop standards and toolsets for provisioning workflows.
• Influence process, tools, and technological improvements.

Skills

Building and scaling teams

Kubernetes-based microservice architectures

Strong technical understanding of messaging services

Familiarity with modern Java features

Experience with AWS

Experience in authentication and authorization systems

Data-driven infrastructure metrics

Agile development methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Engineering Manager, Identity and Growth, Hyderabad, India

Engineering Manager responsible for leading a high‑performing team of engineers to enable rapid consolidation of platforms to a unified authentication and authorization experience.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Build and manage a team of high‑performing engineers, ensuring retention through challenging professional opportunities and career growth prospects.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders across platform, back‑end, and client engineering; program management; champion engineering excellence.
• Develop standards and toolsets for efficient, cost‑effective provisioning workflows.
• Identify new opportunities and enhancements and feed them to the shared roadmap for prioritization.
• Identify and manage partner relationships internally and externally to ensure smooth integration into the WBD product delivery process.
• Manage complexity and uncertainty associated with new product development.
• Influence and champion process, tools, operations, and technological improvements to operate global‑scale cloud‑based platform services.
• Mentor other software development engineers throughout the organization, building the next generation of leaders.
• Build self‑service tooling to automate platform adoption of identity services for both internal and external stakeholders.

What to Bring

• Bachelor’s degree with 10‑15 years of experience in the industry and at least 3‑5 years leading and managing software development teams.
• A record of building, scaling, and growing teams of 5+ engineers and ownership of an engineer‑first software service/product.
• Strong technical understanding of Kubernetes‑based microservice architectures, messaging services, database services, API gateways, service mesh, and infrastructure‑as‑code technologies/processes.
• Familiarity with modern Java features and Spring Boot.
• Direct experience with AWS (other cloud providers desirable).
• Experience in authentication and authorization systems with a high bar for engineering and operational excellence.
• Experience in large‑volume transaction systems and data migration workflows, focusing on quality, precision, and accuracy metrics.
• Ability to identify and operationalize workflows into a self‑serve system with appropriate guardrails.
• Experience building and operating global‑scale large platform services in non‑prod and prod environments.
• Experience establishing and improving data‑driven infrastructure and service KPIs such as performance, scale, availability, reliability, and security.
• A strong understanding of security best practices and a high bar for protecting customer data.
• Experience working across cross‑functional engineering teams as stakeholders and partners consuming a global platform service.
• Effective communication skills, good balance of empathy, leading by example, player‑coach as needed, influence and drive change.
• Demonstrated experience building systems using agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or similar).

What We Offer

• A great place to work.
• Equal opportunity employer.
• Fast‑track growth opportunities.

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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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