Software Engineer II

Warner Bros. Discovery

Last Updated: 2/21/2026 6:18:52 AM

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Current Days Open
5
Reqs Seen
2
Current Min Salary
$99,400.00 (Yearly)
Current Max Salary
$184,600.00 (Yearly)
Historical Time to Fill
14.5
First Seen
2/14/2026
Lowest Min Salary Seen
$99,400.00 (Yearly)
3/9/2026
Highest Max Salary Seen
$184,600.00 (Yearly)
3/9/2026

Full Job Description

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery the stuff dreams are made of. Who We Are When we say, the stuff dreams are made of, were not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBDs vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating whats next From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive. Your New Role DTCs many software engineering teams build applications for the web, mobile, tablets, connected TVs, consoles, and other streaming devices. The Boundary Services team is responsible for building and maintaining the Gateway, Service Mesh and a few microservices that provide common functionality to the client and backend services. We are a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to WBDs future. We are hiring a software engineer who will solve problems related to API gateway concerns, cross-cluster service meshes, authentication/authorization, and the management of large-scale Istio deployments across many AWS accounts. The engineer will design processes/workflows, with the help of a collaborative team environment using modern, rigorous software development practices that emphasize testability, repeatability, and self-service automation. Your Role Accountabilities You can describe your design, code, and architectural decisions to your team You actively seek input where appropriate and engage your team to inform and share what you are doing. You embrace constructive feedback and adapt to align with organizational standards and objectives. You offer enhancements to best practices, document, design, and architecture improvements, and add feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or recurring encouragement. Qualifications & Experience 3+ years' experience with technologies used on our stack including Python, K8's, Terraform, bash, and CI/CD systems Familiarity with networking concepts in microservice architectures 1+ years' experience with Cloud Technology (AWS or Azure preferred) or strong familiarity and demonstrated ability to become expert A passion for building developer tooling, automation, and platform solutions that will deliver improvements for our internal and public customers You deliver high-quality results the first time and improve code, documentation, and results with each iteration. Your team trusts your work. How We Get Things Done This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview. Championing Inclusion at WBD Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law. If youre a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request. In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discoverys total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $99,400.00 - $184,600.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation. Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

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