Senior Manager, Compression Engineering & Platform Reliability

Warner Bros. Discovery; Sterling (IL); On-site; USD 93,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery in Sterling, VA seeks a Manager of Compression Engineering to lead a multi-team engineering group responsible for stability, evolution and strategic direction of compression and monitoring platforms.

This senior role partners with Architecture, Distribution Operations and Live Events to deliver scalable, future-ready solutions. The position requires 5+ years in video compression, strong MPEG expertise, and on-site availability in Sterling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in video compression or broadcast distribution.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Deep MPEG technologies expertise.
• Hands-on experience with DigiCipher, PowerVu, or Harmonic.
• Strong executive-level communication skills.
• Experience supporting 24/7 mission-critical environments.
• On-site availability in Sterling, VA.
• Willingness to participate in on-call leadership rotations.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight of staff scheduling and project direction.
• Interface with operational management to determine user requirements.
• Maintain SOPs for compression systems maintenance and emergency action procedures.
• Drive accountability, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and technical innovation.
• Partner with Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Distribution Operations, and Live Events to ensure scalable, resilient solutions.
• Review system design documents including drawings and layouts.
• Establish standardized testing, acceptance, and deployment practices across regions.
• Manage and operate all compression technology in use at Discovery communications.
• Identify trends in outages and document them for improvement.
• Ensure robust monitoring, telemetry, alerting, and reporting frameworks.
• Develop and administer training for new TOC and Distribution Engineering staff.

Skills

Video compression

Broadcast distribution

Engineering leadership

MPEG technologies

DigiCipher

PowerVu

Harmonic

Executive communication

Tools

Visio

Lucidchart

AutoCAD

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery in Sterling, VA seeks a Manager of Compression Engineering to lead a multi-team engineering group responsible for stability, evolution and strategic direction of compression and monitoring platforms.

This senior role partners with Architecture, Distribution Operations and Live Events to deliver scalable, future-ready solutions. The position requires 5+ years in video compression, strong MPEG expertise, and on-site availability in Sterling.