Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Backend

Job Description

Skills and Experience you will bring:

• 6 years of professional experience with Python
• 6 years of experience with design, planning & implementation of APIs (REST, protobuf)
• At least 4 years of exposure to AWS Cloud computing
• A good eye for well-structured, modular and maintainable code
• A passion for writing unit tests for your code
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate clearly
• Keen on participating in peer-reviewing code for technical accuracy, ensuring that technical standards are met

Additional skills and experience that will be useful:

• Familiar with microservices architectures and patterns
• Experience creating Serverless applications using event-driven architecture (AWS API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, etc.).
• Experience with observability frameworks (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb) and understanding of the importance of observability in distributed systems
• Experience working with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB)
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline)
• Knowledge of major architecture styles and design patterns (message-oriented, event-based, etc.)
• Experience building SaaS products in a multi-tenant environment
• Familiar with integration and contract testing
• Knowledge of networking
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code in the cloud (CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform).
• Interest in working with machine learning to create smart solutions for the broadcast industry

About the Role

The Engineering Team builds next-generation systems for content management and distribution in the Media and Entertainment industry. Disney, NBCUniversal, Discovery, BBC, and many other content producers and publishers use our products and services to make the most of their file-based and live content for the least effort.

We work with high quality video in real-time and non-real-time scenarios across a wide range of cutting-edge tech. Specializations within the group span from low-level video manipulation and analysis, through back-end management and orchestration services, to web delivered UIs. There may also be opportunities for working as a member of the Scientific Computing Group who work in computer vision, data science and machine learning, taking experiments in Jupyter notebooks through to deployment in production. This makes for a challenging and rewarding engineering experience of continual learning and plenty of opportunity to explore different parts of the stack.

Our technology stack includes a serverless microservice architecture that capitalizes on the full breadth of AWS services with code written in Python, Rust and Java. Our UI uses the latest versions of Angular, Typescript and NgRx. Our CI/CD pipelines leverage AWS, Jenkins, Nexus, and Bazel in addition to our in-house release-management application to build and release 100s of software components.

Work is a thing you do, not a place you go

We work in agile, low-bureaucracy, high-creativity, cross-functional teams spread across the world. Its a highly creative work environment where we support your growth with opportunities for career progression, mentoring others and third-party education. The team is built on trust and is relaxed, open and welcoming to all, and theres fun to be had with regular social events and sports teams.

As part of this role, you will be expected to:

• Participate in design discussions with Head of Stream Automation, Product Owners and Solution Architects for adding new or improving existing features
• Take a feature from scoping requirement to actual launch in our cloud platform
• Design & document requirements/features/API
• Close collaboration with UI & QA team
• Collaborate with SRE team to improve system observability, incident response, and troubleshooting
• Develop high quality, easily understandable, fully unit tested software satisfying Definition of Done including safe deployment tests
• Understand and use Shift left strategy/push down Test Pyramid when testing the developed feature
• Engage with and involve QA team where an integration/end-to-end test is required
• Continuous learning to improve yourself and mentoring Junior Engineers
• Keen on participating in peer review of code for technical accuracy, ensuring technical standards are met

Salary & Benefits

We offer a competitive salary with annual performance-based bonus and stock option schemes. A pension plan; an employer funded health and medical plan; life insurance plan; long term disability coverage; paid time off; an employee assistance program; and a discount platform. The availability and specifics of these benefits vary by location, details of which will be provided during the hiring process.

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