Storytelling is, and will always be, the heart of what we do at Skydance.

Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.

Here, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day.

If you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!

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Manager, Software Engineering(Full Stack), Java&Angular – Media Supply Chain

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, sports, and gaming. Our streaming portfolio includes leading brands such as HBOMax, Discovery+, CNN, Bleacher Report, and more.

Meet Our Team

The team manages Warner Bros. Discovery’s logical content inventory and descriptive metadata ecosystem. It owns the platforms, services, and workflows that create, enrich, govern, and maintain trusted program records across the content lifecycle, ensuring content is accurate, discoverable, and consistently used across enterprise systems.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for some of WBD's most critical systems. This role combines technical leadership, operational excellence, and people management, with broad visibility across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Roles & Responsibilities

People Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.

• Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and operational rigor.

• Partner with engineering leadership on hiring, organizational planning, and talent development.

• Set clear expectations and help engineers balance velocity, quality, and reliability.

• Build an inclusive, collaborative environment where engineers can do their best work.

Technical & Delivery Leadership

• Lead the development and continuous improvement of business-critical platforms and services that support enterprise content, metadata, and workflow management capabilities.

• Drive the delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-performance solutions that enable efficient management, governance, and discovery of critical business information.

• Ensure services are highly available, resilient, secure, and cost-effective while maintaining operational excellence and strong engineering practices.

• Define and execute technical strategy, architecture direction, and roadmap priorities, balancing short-term business needs with long-term platform evolution.

• Partner with product, operations and other engineering stakeholders to deliver impactful capabilities that improve efficiency, automation, data quality, and user experience.

• Foster a culture of engineering excellence through technical leadership, mentoring, process improvement, and adoption of modern development practices and technologies.

• Drive planning, execution, and delivery across multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, quality standards, and customer outcomes.

Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product Management to define roadmaps and priorities for content and observability capabilities.

• Collaborate with engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver trusted metrics and actionable insights.

• Drive alignment across teams to execute complex, cross-functional initiatives.

• Act as an advocate for internal customers, treating data and observability capabilities as products.

• Communicate technical strategy, risks, and progress effectively to leadership and stakeholders.

What to Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• 12-15 years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading and developing high-performing engineering teams.

• Strong technical foundation in cloud-native applications, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems, with experience defining architecture, driving technical strategy, and guiding engineering teams. Experience in Java/Spring Boot, Angular, AWS, relational and non-relational databases, event-driven architectures, and modern CI/CD practices

• Proven track record of delivering scalable, reliable, and business-critical platforms while balancing engineering excellence, operational efficiency, and business priorities.

• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and partnering effectively with Product, Business, Operations, Data, and Engineering stakeholders to deliver strategic outcomes.

• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and coaching skills, with the ability to build high-performing teams and foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Nice to Have

• Experience with graph databases, metadata management platforms, or large-scale content and asset management systems

• Experience leading platform modernization, technology transformation, or consolidation initiatives involving multiple legacy systems and data sources into a unified platform.

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale platforms with complex data, governance, workflow, and operational requirements.

• Experience in media, content management, digital asset management, streaming, or other large-scale digital platforms.

What We Offer:

• A Great Place to work

• Equal opportunity employer

• Fast track growth opportunities

About Skydance

Skydance is a next-generation global media and entertainment company, comprised of three business segments: Studios, Direct-to-Consumer, and TV Media. Skydance's portfolio unites legendary brands, including Paramount, Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max, Paramount+, Pluto TV, CBS, CNN, CBS Sports, TNT Sports, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, MTV, Food Network, BET, HGTV, and Comedy Central.

Some Important Details

We embrace 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. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable 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.