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About the Role
The Staff Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for driving engineering excellence, architectural direction, and delivery of large-scale, high-impact systems across CNN digital platforms. This role provides technical leadership across teams, solves complex engineering challenges, and ensures scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, highly available applications and platforms.
- Define technical strategy, architecture patterns, and engineering best practices.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across teams.
- Drive architectural decisions balancing scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Partner with product, design, editorial, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Own technical execution for complex, cross-functional initiatives.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.
- Improve engineering productivity through automation, tooling, and process enhancements.
- Review code, designs, and technical proposals to maintain high engineering standards.
- Drive operational excellence including monitoring, incident response, performance optimization, and reliability improvements.
- Champion security, quality, and engineering standards across CNN applications.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate adoption opportunities.
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering large-scale consumer applications.
- Strong expertise in designing distributed systems and scalable architectures.
- Experience leading technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native technologies and modern software development practices.
- Strong experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and system integrations.
- Experience with frontend and backend technologies (full-stack understanding preferred).
- Strong programming skills in languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience building high-traffic, highly available digital products.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps practices, monitoring, and production operations.
- Ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority.
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
Skills
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- APIs
- Microservices
- Event-driven architectures
- System integrations
- Cloud-native technologies
- CI/CD
- DevOps practices
- Monitoring
- Production operations
- Personalization
- Recommendation systems
- Search
- AI/ML
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Containers
- Infrastructure automation
- Performance optimization
- Large-scale traffic management
- Security
- Authentication
- Authorization
- OAuth
- SAML
- OIDC
- Agile/Scrum
- Analytics
- Experimentation
- A/B testing
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- Staff Engineer
Benefits
- Thoughtfully curated benefits
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.