Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.
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
storytellers
bringing our characters to life, the
creators
bringing them to your living rooms and the
dreamers
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.
Staff Software Engineer- Fullstack NodeJS & Typescript (GLP Team), Bangalore
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
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 Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com
Meet Our Team:
The Global Localization Platform team is responsible for an
automated string management platform
that transforms how we handle user-facing text across all our products, as well as the tools and tooling components used to manage localizations through self-service within our internal suite of tools called Studio. This platform significantly boosts the productivity of Copywriters and Translation Operations, while improving the workflow for development teams that integrate language strings. By automating string collection, translation and deployment, the team ensures higher-quality English and translated strings are delivered faster and more consistently. In short, our team’s work underpins the
localization
efforts that make Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming products truly global.
Roles & Responsibilities:
We are hiring a
Staff Software Engineer
to join the Global Localization Platform team in
Bangalore
, India.
You will play a critical role in shaping the architecture,
design
and implementation of our localization platform services.
You bring deep
expertise
in building scalable, distributed systems and are comfortable
leading
the development of major functional changes, whether extending complex systems or creating entirely new ones. Your decisions balance long-term platform health with near-term business goals.
You have developed deep subject matter
expertise
in one or more production systems and have
demonstrated
a consistent pattern of shipping high-impact, reliable features.
You take on ambiguous and complex challenges and create elegant, robust solutions using sound engineering practices. Your architectural contributions set the standard for performance,
availability
and maintainability across multiple services.
You are a collaborative force multiplier, actively raising the bar for your team and others through mentorship, feedback and leadership in design and code reviews.
Your clear, concise communication enables productive alignment across engineering,
product and
operations teams. You bring others along with you — not just by sharing knowledge, but by setting an example through your documentation, technical
designs
and ownership mindset.
You help define priorities, drive strategic
initiatives
and contribute to creating a high-performing,
inclusive
and supportive engineering culture.
As a mentor, you provide guidance and support for engineers at all levels, including Senior Engineers and partner with engineering leadership to shape the technical growth of the team
Design and build complex, high-performance backend and frontend systems that power global localization and translation workflows across multiple WBD streaming products including HBO Max, Discovery+, CNN and more.
Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for key services and components in the Global Localization platform, defining patterns for microservices, API design,
eventing
and deployment strategies.
Act as a subject matter expert on cloud-native systems, distributed
architectures
and localization infrastructure; guide the team on when to build
new solutions
vs. extend existing ones.
Lead technical initiatives that span across teams and systems; collaborate with engineering managers, product
managers
and architects to align platform strategy with business goals.
Build and
maintain
robust CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows to ensure fast, reliable delivery across environments.
Implement and evolve comprehensive monitoring, alerting and observability strategies using Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana and similar tools.
Write and review clean,
maintainable
and efficient code across backend (Java, Node.js) and frontend (React, TypeScript) systems; drive engineering excellence through code quality,
performance
and scalability.
Serve as a mentor and technical coach for senior and mid-level engineers, promoting a culture of knowledge sharing,
collaboration
and continuous improvement.
Troubleshoot complex production issues by analyzing logs, metrics, stack
traces
and system behavior; lead root cause investigations and systemic improvements.
Contribute to long-term platform evolution through modernization efforts including modularization, internationalization
tooling
and decoupling of legacy systems.
Promote engineering best practices around testing (unit, integration, E2E), documentation, architectural decision
records
and peer reviews.
What to Bring:
9- 13 years
of hands-on experience in software development, including leading architecture and design for distributed systems in production environments.
Deep
proficiency
in
backend technologies
(Node.js,
Python,
Java) and
frontend frameworks
(React, TypeScript); ability to
operate
across the full stack when needed.
Strong experience with
AWS
services including
Serverless,
Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Step Functions, CloudWatch, API Gateway and
EventBridge
.
Expertise
in building and deploying microservices using
Docker
,
Kubernetes
and
CI/CD pipelines
; infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or CloudFormation is a strong plus.
Practical experience with
datastores
such as RDS/PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch
and vectorization for
fulltext
search
.
Proven success operating production systems with a “you build it, you run it” mindset; strong skills in logging,
alerting
and monitoring strategies.
Experience working in or building
event-driven architectures
and familiarity with messaging systems (Kafka/MKS) and low-latency communication protocols (
gRPC
).
Deep understanding of
API lifecycle management
,
versioning
and service governance across
large distributed
environments.
Prior experience working with
localization workflows
,
ICU standard,
TMS
integration
and content internationalization
is
a strong advantage.
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers at various levels, influence architectural
direction
and contribute to cross-team initiatives.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to document and present technical solutions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Passion for quality,
scalability
and operational excellence.
Track record
of improving systems through proactive refactoring,
automation
and simplification.
What We Offer:
A Great Place to work
Equal opportunity employer
Fast track growth opportunities.
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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
If you’re 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.
