Staff Software Engineer (Video Compression/ Video Transcoding)

Who We Are

When we say, the stuff dreams are made of, we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth.

Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the bringing our characters to life, the bringing them to your living rooms and the creating what’s 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.

Max is where storytelling takes center stage and where creatives find a home with the support and resources to do their best work, no matter the genre or format.

Whatever the viewer wants to watch is front and center and more of what they crave is easily discovered. It is where our exclusive Max Originals and iconic entertainment brands thrive, with HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros.

DC, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network and more delivering the greatest array of series, movies, and specials for audiences of all ages.

HBO Max originally launched in the United States in May 2020 and introduced a lower priced, advertising-supported tier in June 2021.

It rolled out globally across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021, followed by its first European launches in the Nordics and Spain later that year.

In May 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery introduced Max, an enhanced streaming platform, in the U.S. HBO Max is currently available in 46 countries and there are plans for the continued global expansion of Max in 2024.

Meet Our Team :

This role is within WBD’s Content Processing team. We ensure that videos are encoded and packaged as fast as possible for streaming and look incredible on all our supported devices.

If you are passionate about video streaming, if you dream of making every pixel look beautiful, this is the team. By working with usyou can say that you are building the very best streaming platform in the world!

We are a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD’s future. We need a development leader who is comfortable turning the needs of our engineering community into thoughtful design and architecture, serving as a senior resource for other developers as they build software components.

The Staff Software Engineer role requires an individual to be a strong servant leader who cares about the developer experience of the customers.

Additionally, we are looking for someone who has a passion for mentorship to help grow the engineers of the future.

Position Summary :

We are hiring a Staff Software Development Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate has an established background in developing customer-obsessed experiences, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, a high level of creativity, great analytical reasoning skills, and of course, passion for technology.

Responsibilities :

You have acquired subject-matter expertise over one or more production software systems and demonstrated a pattern of shipping high quality feature changes in that or those system(s).

You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.

You are able to lead the design and development of the most complex enhancements involving yourself and other engineers.

You have built multiple stable, scalable feature changes that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.

Your work and your approach to work are exemplary : you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a role model to other teams.

Your software contributions in production are the model for highly available, low latency, and efficient software. Your documentation in code, on technical designs, and operations provide clarity to any engineer interacting with your software or its code.

You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.

You provide mentoring to other engineers.

You are an effective communicator as exemplified by your technical documentation, and your interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams.

You can effectively represent the technical decisions from your team to senior stakeholders.

Requirements

BS in Computer Science or related field

7+ years of technical experience as software developer, or related role

Extensive experience in development on cloud-based infrastructure like AWS, EKS

Extensive experience developing in Go and C++

Extensive experience with mission critical, 24x7, Tier-1 services

Extensive experience with high throughput, distributed systems

Deep knowledge and experience with video streaming standards (DASH and HLS)

Deep knowledge and experience with video encoding standards (H.264, H.265) and FFMPEG

Deep knowledge of video quality metrics and industry practices (PSNR, SSIM, VMAF, BD-Rate)

Mastery of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Excellent Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis

Ability to work on a diverse team

Must have the legal right to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree or PhD in computer science or equivalent

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 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 the diversity of our society and the world around us.

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.