Senior Platform Engineer - Golang, Scale & Strategy Lead

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 42,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A great place to work.

Fast-track growth opportunities.

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery Hyderabad-based team seeks an senior backend platform engineer to lead design, development, and operation of global-scale services. You will influence strategy, mentor engineers, and drive best practices across multiple teams.

The role requires deep Golang expertise, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud experience. You will own high-impact decisions, performance engineering, and incident response in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field with 13–16+ years of software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of Golang and distributed systems.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS).
• Strong understanding of microservices, messaging, and data pipelines.
• Experience building scalable platform services and observability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable platform services deployed globally.
• Set standards for engineering excellence, security, and reliability.
• Influence multi-quarter roadmaps and technical visions across teams.
• Lead architectural changes and mentor Senior/Staff engineers.
• Operate on-call duties, incidents, and runbooks with guardrails.

Skills

Advanced Golang

Distributed systems

Microservice architectures

Observability & metrics

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Prometheus

CloudWatch

Kafka

gRPC

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery Hyderabad-based team seeks an senior backend platform engineer to lead design, development, and operation of global-scale services. You will influence strategy, mentor engineers, and drive best practices across multiple teams.

The role requires deep Golang expertise, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud experience. You will own high-impact decisions, performance engineering, and incident response in a distributed environment.