Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery, where you can thrive in a global engineering group crucial to WBD's future. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a subject matter expert in Kubernetes, defining the overall architecture and driving implementations. You will operate a large fleet of Kubernetes clusters, optimize costs, and enable faster time to new markets.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of software development, infrastructure management or operations experience.
- At least 5 years of Kubernetes and AWS experience.
- Experience with architecture design and developing platform solutions.
- Ability to mentor senior engineers.
- Experience with leading large technical projects with unclear requirements.
- Ability to drive decision making and cross-team collaboration.
- Ability to write quality code for automation in python, bash or golang.
- Experience with designing infrastructure CI/CD pipelines, e.g. Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
- Experience with IaC, preferably Terraform.
- Used to Helm templating for k8s manifests.
- Understanding of how GitOps tooling like ArgoCD or Flux works.
- Experience in rolling out infrastructure changes to production by following a change management workflow.
- Knowing what metrics to monitor during a change rollout to identify problems.
- Strong ownership mentality during rollouts, stop/rollback and fix if problems occur or escalate to management/on-call if getting stuck.
- Strong sense of security, always using least privileges access and firewall configurations when needed for maintenance.
- Understanding of how running workloads on the Kubernetes clusters may be affected by cluster changes or node rotations.
- Willingness to talk to service development teams and understand their challenges when they report problems during maintenance windows.
- Ability to define and measure KPIs and honor SLAs for infrastructure maintenance.
- Experience with Git and GitHub PR workflows.
- Experience in working with Agile – Sprints, Epics/Stories, Jira.
- Experience with building internal developer platforms using technologies such as backstage/argo-workflows
Benefits
- Career-defining opportunities
- Thoughtfully curated benefits
- Tools to explore and grow into your best selves
- Support, celebration, and thriving environment
