Software Engineer

Who you are

• 2+ years full stack development experience with an emphasis on front-end development, including JavaScript, HTML/CSS & Responsive design
• Experience with AWS services and other Cloud Platforms
• Understand engineering best practices, design patterns, testing and alerting
• Development experience building fully responsive designs that work across all screen resolutions and browsers
• Editorial programming or journalism experience
• Experience with Cursor, Gemini or Claude tools
• Experience developing or working with a publishing CMS
• Creating automated solutions to user needs
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and synthetic tests
• Experience with live streaming events
• Familiarity with programming languages, frameworks, platforms, API’s and/or SDKs
• Knowledge of Operations, CI/CD, and DevOps
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause investigation skills — comfortable replicating an issue, reviewing the codebase, and narrowing it down to an API or database problem
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g. S3, EKS vs. ECS) and other Cloud Platforms, including navigating cloud consoles for troubleshooting

What the job involves

• Warner Bros. Discovery is hiring a Software Engineer II to join the CNN Digital Global Editorial Support team. This is a great opportunity for an individual that is passionate about supporting digital products and editors around the world. This team is tier 1 support for every CNN product, service and tool. We also monitor product performance and stability and support tentpole live events and coverage of breaking news
• As a Software Engineer II, you will work with cross-functional teams to triage and troubleshoot production incidents, and support editorial teams' day-to-day workflows. You will work with both front-end and back-end systems and services. You also have the opportunity to work on building projects to support CNN’s web products
• Your team works with product, design, revenue and technical teams across both the CNN and WBD organizations. You will play a crucial part on the team as you will be responsible for responding to production issues, improving automation, and finding ways to improve and enhance daily workflows
• Be responsible for triage and troubleshooting bugs and production incidents, supporting editorial workflows and operational maintenance of digital products
• Communicate effectively with editorial, engineering, product, and design team members to ensure product expectations for internal and external users are met
• Support live news events
• Collaborate with team members in the planning and execution of new features and products
• Thoroughly document your own contributions and, where necessary, the contributions of others