Staff Software Engineer, Growth Platform

Talentify; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN Growth team is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve core systems for audience growth across CNN’s digital platforms. You will stay hands-on while setting technical direction, raising standards, and guiding architecture in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with engineering managers, product, design, data, and vendors to deliver scalable, consumer-facing software at scale, balancing speed and long-term maintainability.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of professional experience building and maintaining production software systems.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including modern ES6+ patterns, and experience with Node
• Experience designing and developing scalable APIs and web applications
• Solid understanding of system design, performance optimization, and application security
• Experience working with AWS services, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools
• Strong communication skills and ability to clearly explain technical concepts to varied audiences
• Proven ability to deliver high quality software in an agile, fast paced environment
• Experience collaborating closely with cross functional partners
• Passion for building user focused products that deliver measurable impact

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production systems and user facing applications
• Lead technical design and architecture discussions for features and systems
• Write high quality, well tested code and set a strong example for engineering excellence
• Partner with engineering managers on technical strategy, planning, and execution
• Collaborate with product, design, data, and other engineers to translate requirements into scalable solutions
• Evaluate and integrate third party services and vendor platforms
• Identify performance, reliability, and security risks and drive improvements
• Participate actively in code reviews and raise the overall quality bar for the team
• Mentor and support engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing
• Help improve developer experience, tooling, and engineering practices

Skills

JavaScript

Node

APIs

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

System design

Security

Agile

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Svelte

Python

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN Growth team is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve core systems for audience growth across CNN’s digital platforms. You will stay hands-on while setting technical direction, raising standards, and guiding architecture in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with engineering managers, product, design, data, and vendors to deliver scalable, consumer-facing software at scale, balancing speed and long-term maintainability.