Software Development Manager III – Release & Delivery Engineering, Delivery Pipelines

Who We Are

Warner Bros. Discovery’s DTC technology and product organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web and consoles. As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery’s continued growth, building world-class products from the ground-up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more.

Who You Are

The ideal candidate has an established track record of building new or elevating existing software teams. You know how to establish a team’s identity and how to define the way in which that team works within a larger organization. You have mastered the ability to delegate – at both the task and project level – to appropriate team members and are able to ensure that the right results are achieved even without your constant oversight. You are a leader that people turn to when they want to build something new as you can align with company priorities and processes, or even create new ones when necessary.  You have a mix of skills that focus on event driven architecture and software delivery automation.

What You’ll Do

As an Engineering Manager in the Delivery Pipelines team within the Release and Delivery Engineering organization, you’ll be joining a group that is responsible for building a truly global, self-service cloud platform (PaaS) to enable DTC’s growing number of engineering teams to build, test, deploy, and manage the complete operational life cycle of their services in a fully autonomous fashion. Specifically you will be leading a team responsible for creating a delivery system that other engineering teams will use to automate the delivery of their application at scale. You will help drive technical decision-making, particularly with regard to the architectural direction of the platform components for building software. Your team is responsible for being the glue between build and deployment and will need to integrate with several other software development tools.  Your team focuses on providing a simple process and set of tools for application teams to leverage so that they can build and deliver their application with quality and velocity.

You will help set the tone for how your team operates. You’ll insist on modern, rigorous software development practices that emphasize testability, repeatability, and self-service automation. You’ll mentor your team and help grow your developers into leaders. You’ll openly collaborate with other teams’ managers and help raise the bar of engineering excellence across the entire organization.

• You understand a broad range of computer science concepts and know how, when, and when not to use them. You can dive deep into a wide range of technical problems offering suggestions and feedback to your team. Your interest in computer science has not faded as you moved into a leadership role and you are still comfortable with technical details.
• Your written and verbal communication skills are top-notch. You can distill key points out of complex technical descriptions to share with non-technical stakeholders, adapting your language and style of communication depending on the audience. You communicate through data, dates, and facts using emotion judiciously to motivate and inspire.
• You lead by example and do not consider yourself above individual contributor work. You are comfortable teaching best practices by showing people, not just telling people. Teams follow your lead because you are an inspirational leader, because you are right, and because you can show everyone high-quality examples of your own work.
• Given a larger business goal, you are able to facilitate ramping up of an existing team or building a new team, including estimating the needed skills and team size, defining processes, team structure, and means of collaboration. You have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to hit these goals.
• You have demonstrated the ability to make great hiring decisions as is evidenced by the performance of engineers on your team, and you are able to retain and develop the best engineers.
• You have demonstrated the capacity to make decisions for more than one engineering team or functional area showing that your judgment is fungible.
• You raise the quality bar of your team by creating a culture that ensures high levels of engineering and operational excellence. 
• You foster an environment of inclusiveness, psychological safety and ensure your team has fun while solving hard problems.

In addition, your technical skills should match well to the following:

• Hands-on experience with automating development workflow pipelines (CI/CD) scaling to hundreds of services using one of (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, CodePipeline, Bamboo, TravisCI).  
• Hands-on experience with designing and maintaining CI/CD systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience with at least one IaC tool (e.g. CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Hands-on experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, or other)
• Hands-on experience with a serverless framework, AWS SAM preferred.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems and event driven architectures.
• Experience as a software developer using at least one of (Javascript or Golang preferred) and has a good understanding of how software applications are built.  
• Operational experience (i.e. on-call rotation, incident response)
• Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and timezones
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation (including diagramming)
• Strong CS fundamentals

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles that will be performed in New York City. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $155,540 -$288,860 salary per year.

Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

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