Senior Staff Software Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery
Atlanta, GA
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Jul 7, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A principal-level web architecture role within CNN's new consumer products division, focused on building lifestyle and non-news digital experiences from scratch across web and mobile. The position combines hands-on development with broad technical leadership — defining architecture for front-end applications, shared backend services, and a content management platform, while guiding multiple engineering teams. Suits a seasoned full-stack engineer with deep cloud-native and large-scale web system experience who is comfortable shaping strategy as well as writing code.
Staff level · 15+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Staff.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 250 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 190–320
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is titled 'senior technical leader' but the actual scope — defining architecture across multiple engineering teams, setting long-term technical strategy, building platform capabilities, and influencing org-wide engineering practices — is consistent with a Staff-level individual contributor rather than a Senior engineer. The title does not use the word 'Staff', so the level advertised in the title is set to Senior while the assessed level is Staff.
The alt SOC 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) is a genuine runner-up: the role includes mentoring, contributing to technical hiring, and influencing multiple engineering teams, which edges toward management. However, the JD emphasizes hands-on development, architecture design, and rapid prototyping as primary accountabilities, keeping it in the IC developer space.
AWS is listed as 'strongly preferred' over GCP or Azure; all three are captured under one skill with alternatives, and the preference is noted here.
JavaScript and TypeScript are listed together in the JD ('JavaScript/TypeScript') as a combined stack item; they are emitted as two separate must-have skills because they are distinct technologies both used in the stack, with each listed as an alternative for the other to reflect the JD's paired framing.
Location is inferred as CNN's New York headquarters; the JD does not explicitly state a city or remote policy.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
AI-assisted engineering appears as a leadership accountability ('lead the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices') rather than a hard technical gate, so it is listed as preferred.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AI-assisted engineering.
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