Staff Software Engineer- Localization (GLP Team), Bangalore

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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- Localization (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;

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