Staff Platform Engineer - CI/CD & Release Automation

Warner Bros. Discovery; Bellevue (KY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a technically broad Staff engineer to shepherd complex platform problems from design to production. You will build and operate CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, deployment automation, and release tooling, while guiding cross‑org technical discussions that drive platform adoption.

You’ll mentor engineers, define the architecture, and break down work for teams, owning systems end‑to‑end—from whiteboard diagrams to runbooks keeping systems healthy at 2 AM.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading the technical direction of complex systems, influencing across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous projects through architecture to production delivery.
• Cross‑team influence and effective communication to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical direction across delivery and deployment platform capabilities, roadmap, and scale.
• Lead cross‑team design‑to‑production initiatives with architecture alignment and delivery ownership.
• Own platform programs including resilience, disaster recovery for CI/CD infrastructure and adoption of automated release safety.
• Build and evolve CI/CD tooling, pipelines, artifact management, release automation, and developer interfaces.
• Establish on‑call, incident response playbooks, gameday, and documentation culture.

Skills

CI/CD

Kubernetes (K8s)

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation

Go/TypeScript

Java/Kotlin/Python

Technical storytelling & architecture

Remote collaboration

Tools

GitHub

Artifactory/ECR

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a technically broad Staff engineer to shepherd complex platform problems from design to production. You will build and operate CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, deployment automation, and release tooling, while guiding cross‑org technical discussions that drive platform adoption.

You’ll mentor engineers, define the architecture, and break down work for teams, owning systems end‑to‑end—from whiteboard diagrams to runbooks keeping systems healthy at 2 AM.