Senior Staff Software Engineer - Content Experience Platform

Warner Bros. Entertainment; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 900 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A global entertainment company is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for their Direct to Consumer group. This role focuses on building a global streaming video platform utilizing advanced technologies to enhance content discovery. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Java, cloud-native architectures, and will lead cross-functional initiatives to ensure a high-quality user experience across multiple platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with Java or JVM languages.
• Experience with cloud-native systems and microservices.
• Skilled in optimizing large-scale databases such as PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and technical direction across teams.
• Lead cross-team initiatives requiring deep coordination.
• Mentor staff engineers and set high technical standards.

Skills

Java expertise

Architecting distributed systems

Cloud-native environments

Asynchronous communication patterns

Low-latency API design

Data persistence strategies

Observability practices

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring and incident response

Reactive programming

Job description

Overview

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery. We are a global entertainment company with a portfolio of iconic content and brands. We are story-driven, technology-forward, and focused on empowering creators and dreamers to bring great experiences to audiences worldwide.

Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years and employs people around the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We are always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.

Your New Role

The Direct to Consumer (DTC) Group is a technology company within Warner Bros Discovery. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT) and a suite of applications to support all of our network’s brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, content catalog, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and more. We enable performant streaming experiences across connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of Warner Bros Discovery owned streaming services (HBO Max, Discovery+, CNN, and others). This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to Warner Bros Discovery’s future.

We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer within the DTC Content Experience Platform. The team is responsible for aggregating, enabling, and serving the personalized Content Discovery experience within our DTC streaming video platforms through our Experience Services APIs. We ensure all client applications worldwide have seamless access to the latest and relevant content metadata, personalized browse experiences and curations, and presentational elements to deliver a best-in-class content discovery experience to our hundreds of millions of streaming users globally across our different streaming service platforms.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Drive long-term architecture and technical direction across multiple workstreams, ensuring cohesive design and scalable foundations.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior product and engineering leadership—translating technical opportunities and constraints into strategic input that influences product direction and company priorities.
• Lead complex, cross-team initiatives that require deep coordination, influencing beyond formal authority.
• Guide the technical growth of the organization by mentoring Staff+ engineers, setting high standards, and sharing knowledge broadly.
• Set the bar for operational excellence, engineering velocity, and system reliability, identifying and fixing systemic issues.
• Serve as a connector across domains, bridging teams, technologies, and business contexts to deliver integrated solutions.
• Represent engineering in company-level discussions, helping translate business goals into a sustainable technical strategy.
• Take responsibility for the long-term health and evolution of core systems and infrastructure, making principled trade-offs along the way.

Qualifications and Experience

• At least 10 years of experience with deep expertise in Java or other JVM languages, and a strong grasp of advanced language features and performance tuning.
• Proven experience in architecting and scaling distributed systems in cloud-native environments, with microservices, asynchronous communication patterns (e.g., gRPC, Kafka), and event-driven architectures.
• Has led the design and implementation of low-latency, high-throughput APIs powering real-time systems with demanding SLAs.
• Strong knowledge of data persistence, indexing, and caching strategies, with experience optimizing PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and in-memory caches like Caffeine for large-scale production environments.
• Has introduced or evolved observability practices across teams, including distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or Zipkin.
• Experience leading teams in adopting and scaling infrastructure as code practices using GitOps, Terraform, ArgoCD, or Helm.
• Skilled in setting up and evolving monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes, using tools such as Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, and PagerDuty.
• Practical experience with non-blocking, asynchronous, and reactive programming models using frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Reactor, or Vert.x, with a focus on resilience and throughput.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and evolve technical stacks, guide technology adoption, and make forward-looking platform decisions. Has a proven track record of leading architecture and technical direction across multiple teams or domains, not just a single work stream.
• Thinks and operates at an organizational level—connecting product, technical, and operational strategy across functions.
• Recognized as a trusted technical leader who mentors Staff-level engineers and influences broader engineering culture and direction.
• Excels at navigating complexity and ambiguity—balancing short-term business impact with long-term platform evolution.
• Champions a culture of technical excellence, inclusive collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Combines deep technical expertise with strong product and business acumen to align engineering direction with company priorities.
• Proactively identifies systemic issues and opportunities across teams and leads cross-org initiatives to improve architecture, performance, and ways of working.
• Combines deep technical expertise with strong product and business acumen to align engineering direction with company priorities and challenge initiatives which don’t provide value.

How We Get Things Done

This last bit is central to how we operate. Our guiding principles are the core values by which we get things done. You can find them at the guiding principles page and along with insights from the team on what they mean for day-to-day work. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. We 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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