Principal Software Engineer

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Principal Engineer – Bleacher Report, Bangalore

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 and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery’s leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

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Meet Our Team: WBD Sports encompasses a wide range of sports brands and channels, reaching over 130 million people monthly in more than 200 markets and 20+ languages. Key brands include Bleacher Report, Eurosport and TNT Sports. WBD Sports offers comprehensive coverage of major sports events — the Olympics in Europe, tennis Grand Slams and road cycling Grand Tours (e.g., Tour de France) — across platforms including TV and streaming services such as Max and Discovery+. It also manages and promotes 55 global events annually, while TNT Sports UK features exclusive live sports such as the Premier League and UEFA Champions League.

Bleacher Report (B/R) is one of the most recognised digital sports brands in the U.S., serving millions of fans across NBA, NFL, MLB and more. B/R is a real-time, mobile-first sports experience — combining sports messaging and community, live stream clips, editorial articles, Gamecast, live scores and schedules — powered by a federated GraphQL platform, event-driven microservices, and native mobile and web clients. As a Principal Engineer on the Bleacher Report team, you will own the end-to-end technical direction of these fan-facing experiences and the platform behind them.

Roles & Responsibilities: We are looking for a hands-on Principal Fullstack Engineer to lead the architecture, design and delivery of Bleacher Report’s fan-facing products and the services that power them — from the GraphQL platform and real-time data pipelines down to the native mobile and web clients. This is a high-impact technical leadership role that bridges business needs and engineering execution across the full stack.

• Own end-to-end architecture across the stack — from client applications (iOS, Android/TV, Web) through the federated GraphQL API layer to the backend microservices, data stores and streaming pipelines that power scores, schedules, Gamecast, articles, clips and messaging.
• Drive the design and evolution of a federated GraphQL platform (Apollo Federation v2 / Apollo Gateway), defining subgraph boundaries, schema governance, entity ownership and versioning strategy across many teams.
• Architect low-latency, high-throughput, event-driven systems for real-time sports data (live scores, play-by-play, notifications) using Kafka, message queues and caching, designed for game-day traffic spikes.
• Set the technical direction for client-facing experiences and collaborate closely with mobile (Swift/iOS, Kotlin/Android & TV) and web engineers on API contracts, performance and data-fetching patterns.
• Ensure Tier-1 reliability: define SLAs/SLOs, resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, back-pressure), observability and capacity planning for services that require high uptime during live events.
• Partner with Product, Content/Editorial, Data, Design and cross-functional engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable, cohesive technical solutions.
• Review and approve technology choices and designs — assessing options for cost, performance, scalability, security and maintainability — and lead design and architecture reviews.
• Define and enforce engineering standards: coding standards, testing strategy, CI…