Senior Software Engineer

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.

Warner Bros. Games New York works with some of the top talent in the game industry to build online competitive and social features for video games.

Our highly experienced team of engineers utilize cutting-edge technology to build game services that are robust and scalable enough to support world-class developers such as NetherRealm Studios, Rocksteady, Monolith Productions, Warner Bros.

Games Montréal, and more!

Your New Role...

This technical role in the Warner Bros. Central Game Technologies team offers an experienced engineer the opportunity to collaborate in the envisioning, designing, and building of a wide variety of enterprise-level game development tools, pipelines, and services.

The problem space ranges the gamut of games technology and will require an engineer with an exceptional ability to learn.

Critically, the role also requires an engineer who has passion for helping others achieve and is prepared to drive this through innovation and development to fill needs, such as shared technology or inter-studio communication platforms.

Collaboration and co-development with the many WB Games studios will be a routine part of the role, giving exposure to the many tools and technologies developed around WB Games.

Your Role Accountabilities...

Direct development of technology, systems, and pipelines

Research and dissemination of knowledge and best practices

Guiding outsourcers and mentoring of staff

Meetings and planning

Qualifications & Experience...

8+ years of software engineering experience

Excellent C / C++ programming skills with excellent debugging abilities

Recent professional experience with Unreal Engine

The ability to write efficient and optimized code

Experience in one or more of animation, physics, rendering, tools architecture, content build pipelines, backend services or other game-centric disciplines

Experience working with 1st party game platforms (Xbox, PlayStation and Steam) in an engineering capacity

Experience with Unreal or equivalent game engine in an engineering capacity

Experience with some or all of Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Jira (or other bug databases), Confluence, Visual Studio, Perforce (or other source control tools)

Strong desire to build industry-leading technology and help others achieve

Excellent communication skills

Ability to collaborate with engineers and content creators to develop robust, maintainable, cutting-edge technology

Ability to openly discuss and review technical proposals, requirements, designs, algorithms, source code, and reference documents with engineers, content creators and managers

Creative, focused, results-oriented, self-motivated, resourceful problem-solver

A passion for gaming

College degree in software engineering, architecture, or computer science preferred

Experience writing multithreaded code preferred

LI-Remote

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.