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Senior Staff Support Engineer (MSC Production Support Team), Bangalore
from 🇮🇳 India
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 thestorytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and thedreamers 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.
Senior Staff Support Engineer (MSC Production Support Team) BangaloreÂ
About Warner Bros. Discovery:Â
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 company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.Â
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.Â
Meet Our Team:Â Â
The Media Supply Chain (MSC) team builds applications and services that power Warner Bros. Discovery’s content supply chain.  Our platforms enable stakeholders to plan, manage, enrich, and deliver media assets at scale across platforms, including Max (HBO Max), Discovery+, partners, affiliates, and linear channels.Â
The Media Supply Chain Production Support team provides 24/7 technical support for the full production media lifecycle—ensuring technical issues resolutions, the stability of systems, workflows, and capabilities required to move content from inventory through ingestion, transformation, metadata management, packaging, distribution, and partner delivery to global platforms.Â
We support thousands of internal users, enabling seamless content production and distribution across all platforms.Â
This role operates at the intersection of MSC Production Support, MSC Development and WBD Operational teams (GCO) combining deep technical expertise with cross-functional leadership to ensure the seamless progression of assets through MSC workflows, drive systems reliability improvements and reduce operational risk across the platform.Â
Roles & ResponsibilitiesÂ
Be part of a 24/7 Production Support Team for a Media Supply Chain systems portfolio of on-prem and AWS applications and servicesÂ
Serve as a senior technical leader across MSC production systems, with deep understanding of end-to-end business and technical workflows and dependenciesÂ
Maintain a comprehensive view of system architecture, services, data flows, and integration points across platformsÂ
Identify systemic weaknesses and drive long-term architectural remediation strategiesÂ
Influence engineering design to ensure production readiness, scalability, and resilience by designÂ
Design and implement scalable automation, reporting solutions, and bulk execution tooling; translate recurring issues into reusable engineering patterns; drive reliability, extensibility, and long-term supportability improvements.Â
Develop AI-assisted tooling for incident triage, root cause suggestion, anomaly detection, issues resolutions and predictive failure analysis; enable self-service troubleshooting and data-driven operational insights.Â
Drive improvements in incident reduction, MTTR, detection capabilities, and system stabilityÂ
Lead initiatives focused on automation, self-healing, and proactive issue preventionÂ
Define and enforce best practices for monitoring, alerting, and operational readinessÂ
Elevate consistency and quality of incident handling, escalation, and resolution processesÂ
Influence upstream teams to address root causes, reduce technical debt, and improve operabilityÂ
Provide ongoing technical mentorship and leadership within the MSC Production Support teamÂ
Elevate team capabilities in incident technical analysis, debugging, resolution and system understandingÂ
Drive adoption of standardized Support practices, tooling, and documentationÂ
Lead cross-team initiatives to improve efficiency, quality, and reliability across support workflowsÂ
What to BringÂ
15 – 18 years of experience in Technical Production Support, or distributed systems developmentÂ
Proven experience supporting and leading large-scale, distributed, cloud-based systemsÂ
Deep understanding of end-to-end Media Supply Chain workflows, integration interfaces and system dependenciesÂ
Strong track record of leading complex, cross-system incident investigations and RCA effortsÂ
Demonstrated ability to influence engineering teams and drive long-term technical improvementsÂ
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to engage senior stakeholders across multiple functionsÂ
Proficiency in Java, Python, or similar programming languagesÂ
Strong experience with:Â Â
Distributed systems and event-driven architecturesÂ
Cloud platforms (AWS / Azure) at scaleÂ
Monitoring, observability, and diagnostic tools (Splunk, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.)Â
Experience with:Â Â
APIs, service integrations, and system troubleshootingÂ
Databases (Relational and Non-Relational)Â
CI/CD pipelines and development workflowsÂ
Experience with AI/MLÂ
Hands-on experience with incident management tools and processes (ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Jira, etc.)Â
Excellent customer focus and awareness of the importance of the customer in a service organization as well as ability to interact professionally with business users and development teamsÂ
Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers and stakeholders across diverse geographies and time zonesÂ
Ability to support working shifts within the 4 AM ET to 6 PM ET window, with occasional off-hours availability, sometimes on short notice.Â
Ability to multi-task and manage multiple competing prioritiesÂ
Strong analytical and problem-solving skillsÂ
Bachelor of Engineering or Computer Science Â
What We Offer:Â
A Great Place to workÂ
Equal opportunity employerÂ
Fast track growth opportunitiesÂ
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 atwww.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 ouraccessibility page for instructions to submit your request.






