Senior Software Engineer, Site Performance at Warner Bros. Discovery
Atlanta, GA
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Jul 27, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Software Engineer role on CNN's Site Performance team, focused on improving page load times, responsiveness, and scalability for one of the world's largest news platforms. Day-to-day work involves identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks across code, databases, and infrastructure, implementing monitoring and analytics tooling, and contributing to architecture reviews and engineering standards. The role is primarily JavaScript and AWS-based.
Senior level · 5+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 6,600 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,500–8,600
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The job posting does not specify a precise office location beyond CNN/WBD being headquartered in New York; the CBSA has been inferred from that context and may not be accurate if the role is based at another WBD office (e.g., Atlanta or Los Angeles).
Performance monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic, or similar) appear in the qualifications section but are framed as 'experience with… or similar,' indicating the specific tool is interchangeable; listed as preferred accordingly.
Agile is mentioned in the accountabilities narrative rather than a formal requirements block, so it is listed as preferred.
ES6/7 is listed alongside the core JavaScript requirement; ES6 is captured as a separate skill to reflect the explicit mention of modern JavaScript syntax standards.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
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