Senior Application Engineer

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At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and creative entrepreneurs, and game‑changing creatives devoted to turning dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. Our core values underpin everything we do:

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we immerse ourselves in culture and break through barriers. Curiosity fuels innovation, which is key to our future.
• Collaboration: Making music and sharing it worldwide is driven by teamwork. Great ideas travel globally, and we ignite passion and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent, acting with integrity and delivering on our promises.

Technology is vital to our business, whether signing new artists, providing the right data to Spotify, You Tube, and other digital providers, or helping artists use AI tools and data‑driven insights. The engineering team turns this vision into reality.

As a Senior Software Application Engineer
, you’ll maintain, upgrade, and support the technical systems that power Warner Music Group’s global operations. This hybrid role blends software engineering with site reliability engineering (SRE) and operational support, requiring technical breadth, adaptability, and a strong customer focus. You’ll thrive when keeping complex systems healthy, scalable, and resilient in production.

Software Engineering & Upgrades

• Write clean, maintainable code in Java or Python (backend) and Angular or React (frontend)
• Upgrade application frameworks (e.g., Java, Angular) to keep security patches, support, and performance improvements current
• Debug and resolve system errors identified by automated or manual testing

Reliability & Monitoring

• Monitor production systems and improve observability to detect and resolve issues proactively
• Lead root cause analyses (RCAs) for outages and implement corrective actions
• Conduct performance and scalability testing, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations

Support & Operations

• Partner with business and operations users to troubleshoot, document, and resolve issues
• Execute manual workflows (e.g., data queries, AWS resource modifications, job restarts) and automate them for efficiency
• Participate in the on‑call rotation, responding to high‑priority production incidents

Automation & Continuous Improvement

• Enhance CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git Hub Actions, infrastructure‑as‑code)
• Contribute to and maintain team knowledge bases, runbooks, and technical documentation
• Drive continuous improvement through process automation and tooling enhancements

• 5+ years of experience in software development, ideally with Java or Python (backend) or Angular/React (frontend)
• Experience with relational databases (Oracle, Postgre
  
  SQL) and writing SQL queries
• Effective communicator who can bridge technical and non‑technical discussions
• Comfortable collaborating in distributed teams across multiple time zones

• Experience working with enterprise systems and modernizing them
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) to manage cloud resources, ideally in AWS
• Ability to diagnose and resolve issues across desktop, network, and web layers
• Experience with on‑call, incident management, and meeting SLA commitments

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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Thank you for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and we think you will, too.

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