Company Overview
WarnerMedia is a powerful portfolio of iconic entertainment, news, and sports brands. We bring people, technology, and the world’s best storytellers together to drive culture and meaningful connection. We believe the enduring power of stories can open our eyes to the world, to each other, and to new and different perspectives.
HBO 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 HBO Max Originals and iconic entertainment brands thrive, with HBO, 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 launched in the US in May 2020 and will launch in Latin America and Europe during 2021.
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The Job
We are the team that architects, designs and operates the backend datastores for the HBO Max streaming platform that enables real-time targeted customer experiences and dynamic business decisions. We work with the most modern data platform technologies, deployed on a global scale in a cloud environment, and designed to support hundreds of millions of customers in dozens of countries.
We collaborate with Software Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to build reliability, performance and security into our streaming products. We champion infrastructure as code and strongly believe that automation is the key to delivering reliable systems. Forget what you know of traditional DBAs, we are “Database Reliability Engineers” and we allow HBO Max to move faster, to ship big database changes without downtime or outages, and to run in an efficient, lights-out manner that just works.
You will be part of a small team, you will get your hands dirty with a lot of modern technology, and you will be a key part of making HBO Max an incredible customer experience!
The Daily
The Essentials
The Nice to Haves
WarnerMedia is a powerful portfolio of iconic entertainment, news, and sports brands. We bring people, technology, and the world’s best storytellers together to drive culture and meaningful connection. We believe the enduring power of stories can open our eyes to the world, to each other, and to new and different perspectives.
HBO 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 HBO Max Originals and iconic entertainment brands thrive, with HBO, 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 launched in the US in May 2020 and will launch in Latin America and Europe during 2021.
Join us. Shape your story here.
The Job
We are the team that architects, designs and operates the backend datastores for the HBO Max streaming platform that enables real-time targeted customer experiences and dynamic business decisions. We work with the most modern data platform technologies, deployed on a global scale in a cloud environment, and designed to support hundreds of millions of customers in dozens of countries.
We collaborate with Software Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to build reliability, performance and security into our streaming products. We champion infrastructure as code and strongly believe that automation is the key to delivering reliable systems. Forget what you know of traditional DBAs, we are “Database Reliability Engineers” and we allow HBO Max to move faster, to ship big database changes without downtime or outages, and to run in an efficient, lights-out manner that just works.
You will be part of a small team, you will get your hands dirty with a lot of modern technology, and you will be a key part of making HBO Max an incredible customer experience!
The Daily
- Be an integral part of a team that designs, defines and executes end-to-end support and performance tuning of SQL and NoSQL databases for our direct-to-consumer platform
- Work with other engineers on your team to define the data architecture for our DTC streaming platform, HBO Max; including identifying gaps in the existing system and designing alternatives that are scalable, robust and easy to maintain
- Partner with engineering stakeholders to help them deliver their releases on time and at a high level of quality
- Design, build and maintain end-to-end data platforms in an Infrastructure-As-Code environment
- Achieve operational simplicity while scaling internationally through automated deployment and configuration management
- Plan capacity, and optimize system for cost while maintaining ability to handle peak load in an elastically-scaled fashion
- Improve system reliability, quality and performance based on quantitative metrics
The Essentials
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering, preferably with a reliability engineering or deployment automation focus
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team of talented individuals, grow collaboration in a distributed environment and have fun
- Expertise with core Computer Science fundamentals, programming, algorithms, and data structures
- Experience delivering solutions in a public cloud environment
- Familiarity with modern SQL or NoSQL database technologies
- Experience writing code, or development of scripts
- Experience operating in a professional software development environment, utilizing version control, artifact repositories, deployment automation tools, CI/CD technologies
- Comfort with operating production environments: use of monitoring and alerting tools, designing for security, planning for continuous availability
The Nice to Haves
- Great communication and presentation skills
- Agile team experience
- Knowledge of database architecture and administration
- Ops viz tooling, such as Statsd, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana (ELK), Splunk
- Specific knowledge of one or more of: DynamoDB, AWS Postgres RDS, Elasticache Redis, Cassandra, pgBouncer, AWS DMS
- Knowledge and experience with Mongo DB, AWS Aurora, timeseries, graph, and analytical database platforms
- Database tuning and optimization skills
- Jenkins, GitHub, Ansible Playbook and Terraform
- Exclusive WarnerMedia events and advance screenings
- Paid time off every year to volunteer for eligible employees
- Access to well-being tools, resources, and freebies
- Access to in-house learning and development resources
- Part of the WarnerMedia family of powerhouse brands