Software Development Engineer - Front End

Job Description

Overview

As television and media habits change, our mission remains true to the principles that founded Discovery – every day we seek to ignite people's curiosity to engage, entertain and enlighten the world around them through amazing viewing experiences.

The Direct to Consumer Group is a technology company within the Discovery brand. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our network's brands globally. We are building modern container-based microservices operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and really much more. We build user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We build products for connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of Discovery owned networks (Discovery, Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, Discovery Play, and many more) This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to Discovery's future.

Responsibilities

The Event Streams platform focuses on helping the Discovery DTC business understand our customers better. This is a critical mission to our success in building the best digital products that customers love. We know our customers, and we own the vision of how data is collected, validated, segmented and activated downstream. We're not only making our digital products more personalized but also empowering our product teams to experiment and make decisions on product features based on data collected.
Our team leverages AWS to build pipelines and create data stores as the source of truth. We are responsible for several pipelines that utilize Kinesis, S3, Airflow, Docker and Kubernetes. We deliver on roadmap requirements while also ensuring time for engineering driven items and improved operations. We deliver for the organization, believe in data privacy, ensure data integrity, and build for reliability and security.

Qualifications

Do you watch Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, Animal Planet, or any of Discovery's other 60+ channels? Are you passionate about data? Do you strive to empower data-driven growth, build the source of truth, and empower teams with high quality business-ready data?

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer who wants to help build our data solutions, apply your coding skills, leverage your AWS experience, and help mentor junior engineers. In this meaningful role, you will solve complex problems, develop scalable solutions, and add to a global team that believes in working together and having fun.

Required
• You have a Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science
• You have a minimum of 8 years of software development experience
• You have a minimum of 6 years of professional experience with AWS services
• Your core language is Python, and you have a proficiency to quickly pick up other languages
• You've designed multiple processes to extract, transform and load data to multiple sources
• You have built and shipped stable data pipelines and scalable feature changes to production
• You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive
• You are an effective communicator as exemplified by your technical documentation and interactions with stakeholders and teams
• You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices
• You can effectively represent the technical decisions from your team to senior stakeholders
• You're not afraid to jump in and help complete any task on the team
• You want a chance to create something new in a rapidly growing team
• You enjoy mentoring others and bringing people along
• You do not have an ego and enjoy working on a team

Experience Giving you an Edge
• • Experience with Airflow, Docker, EC2, S3, or Kubernetes
• Experience with tools such as DataBricks or Snowflake
• You are proficient in Go
• Have worked in a fast paced environment with a growing team
• Experience in the media industry

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxon7j-3-145-131-28-42 in your application.