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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Hybrid
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Who We Are…
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Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer to join the Global Localization Platform team in Bangalore, India. As a Senior Engineer:
You are a recognized subject matter expert in one or more areas of our production systems.
You have consistently demonstrated the ability to independently design, build and ship high-quality features at scale
You work on complex problems with diverse technical dimensions, proactively bringing clarity to ambiguous requirements and proposing sound, scalable solutions.
You operate with a high degree of autonomy, requiring minimal oversight.
You take pride in delivering robust, maintainable and well-tested code that meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
You continuously improve the quality of our systems and our engineering practices, thinking long-term about the health of our codebases, observability and documentation.
You are also an active contributor to a collaborative, inclusive team environment.
Your impact goes beyond code. You are a persuasive communicator who influences your peers through thoughtful design and code reviews and you adapt your communication style to different audiences.
You frequently interact with stakeholders and adjacent teams and you help align cross-functional efforts through strong technical writing and documentation.
You mentor and support less experienced engineers, helping them become productive and successful team members.
Design, develop and maintain scalable backend and frontend services that power WBD’s localization infrastructure, enabling fast and high-quality delivery of multilingual content across platforms like HBO Max, Discovery+ and CNN.
Take ownership of major technical components of the Global Localization platform, contributing to architectural decisions and proposing solutions for performance, scalability and reliability challenges.
Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code across technologies including Node.js, Java, React and TypeScript.
Drive feature implementation from idea to production — breaking down requirements, proposing designs, estimating effort, writing code, creating tests and monitoring after deployment.
Actively participate in code reviews and design discussions, helping raise the technical bar and foster a culture of engineering excellence and collaboration.
Contribute to building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure configurations and cloud deployments using AWS-native services and DevOps tooling.
Take a leading role in troubleshooting and resolving complex production issues — analyzing logs, metrics, traces and system behavior to identify root causes and define long-term improvements.
Continuously improve observability and system resilience through implementation of real-time dashboards, proactive alerting and fault tolerance patterns.
Work closely with product managers, localization experts and other engineers to deliver features that are robust, usable, user-friendly and well-integrated into the broader ecosystem.
Support and mentor junior engineers, promoting technical growth and knowledge sharing across the team.
Stay up to date with modern engineering practices, tools and architectural patterns; drive adoption of relevant innovations within the team.
You actively optimize team processes to improve efficiency and quality, driving long-term improvements alongside short-term deliverables.
What to Bring:
5 - 9years of professional software engineering experience, delivering robust, high-scale backend and frontend systems in production environments.
Advanced experience with backend development using Node.js and frontend development using TypeScript.
Localization workflow experience is mandatory.
Hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services, particularly Serverless, Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch and EventBridge.
Strong understanding of microservice architecture, asynchronous systems and communication protocols (REST, gRPC, event-driven).
Experience with DevOps practices including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Practical knowledge of databases: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and caching/search solutions such as Redis and Elasticsearch.
Strong focus on system observability — comfortable setting up dashboards, defining alerts and analyzing operational data using tools like Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Kibana and Grafana.
Familiarity with localization or internationalization challenges (e.g., ICU format, string management, translation workflows, Unicode handling) is a plus.
Proven ability to break down complex problems, design modular solutions and communicate technical decisions clearly.
Demonstrated mentoring ability and active participation in raising team quality through reviews, pairing and documentation.
Effective communicator across disciplines — capable of presenting and justifying technical approaches to peers and stakeholders.
Experience working in agile, product-driven environments and contributing meaningfully to planning and prioritization.
What We Offer:
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.