Principal Software Engineer, Data Pipeline

Job Description

Our DTC team is laying the foundation for HBO Max, and we need highly motivated, uniquely skilled, and technically agile experts across a variety of disciplines to accomplish things that have never been done before.

The Job

We are the team responsible for the HBO Max data pipeline. The data pipeline is where we instrument, store and model engagement and reference data for use by analysts, data scientists and engineers to enhance and improve the overall customer experience across our products and content offerings.

At HBO as a Principal engineer on the Data Pipeline team, you will design, develop and support the services and systems for instrumentation, validation, durable delivery, and integration into batch and stream based environments. We run services that support the interactions of millions of concurrent viewers in a 24/7 environment. We are experts in our craft and pride ourselves on being knowledgeable across a wide range of business needs and product functionality. You will also partner with our messaging, experimentation platform, Search, and Recommendations teams to ensure that we have the ability to train

recommender systems, target customers, and test different experiences among multiple groups in real time to see which works the best.

The Daily
• Architect a world-class data platform across HBO Max's operational and business ecosystem.
• Design, architect and support a data pipeline platform that allows a customer's behavioral data to directly impact their individualized experiences in the HBO Max product.
• Ideate, innovate and create complex software roadmaps that will impact the entire streaming industry.
• Be the technical face for the department for cross organization engineering leadership meetings.
• You are a department resource, growing other engineers across multiple teams.
• Identify, Design and deliver complex architectures and distributed systems, including working through other engineers to help deliver the end solution
• Describe highly technical concepts to non-technical audiences in a way they can understand
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write
• Seek self-improvement and are adaptable to suggestions and feedback
• Hold yourself, your team, and the department to high standards while maintaining friendly, respectful relationships

The Essentials
• BS degree in Computer Science, or a related field with 15+ years of relevant experience
• 15+ years of professional development experience using languages such as Java, C, C++, C#, Javascript, Typescript, Golang
• End to end experience supporting stream and batch processing of high scale data pipelines used to drive customer facing services
• Success in delivering and operating reliable low-latency, services operating in a 24x7 environment
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (AWS, Google app engine, Azure, Kubernetes)

The Nice to Haves
• Experience building large-scale data mining systems, possibly involving real-world noisy data
• Full-stack industry experience, or hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology
• Have led the design, implementation, and delivery of large engineering projects that interacted with multiple teams
• Have experience as a team resource, growing other engineers and defining team software standards and engineering best practices

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ro32y4-3-14-253-221-42 in your application.