Staff Software Engineer
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 full-stack senior engineering role on CNN's New Business team, focused on architecting and building backend systems — including APIs, data modeling, and service infrastructure — alongside front-end experiences, all on a cloud-native AWS platform. The work involves taking new product ideas from proof of concept through to production, setting engineering standards, and mentoring peers. Suits an experienced generalist engineer comfortable across the stack with deep JavaScript and AWS expertise.
Senior level · 8+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,200 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,150–5,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 (6)
The job title carries no seniority level ('engineer' only), so advertised seniority is Unspecified; however, the 8+ years requirement and scope (architecture leadership, mentoring, driving engineering culture) firmly support a Senior classification.
Location is inferred as New York (CNN/WBD headquarters) — the posting does not explicitly state a city or remote policy, so remote is set to false by default.
The BS degree requirement is stated as a hard gate ('BS degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 8+ years of relevant experience').
The JD calls for 'contemporary frameworks' and 'state management' for JavaScript but names no specific framework (e.g. React, Vue, Angular) — no framework skill was emitted to avoid inventing a requirement not stated.
Kanban/Scrum and project management tools appear under 'Nice to Haves' and are marked preferred accordingly.
Open-source community participation and interviewing/talent acquisition experience also appear under 'Nice to Haves' but name no specific technology or tool, so they were omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
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