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Sr Software Engineer, Content Personalization

HBO

Seattle, WA 06-18-2021
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description

The Job

The Content Discovery Personalization team for HBO Max directs customers to the content they are interested in at a very large scale by leveraging cutting-edge machine learning and cloud computing technologies. As part of the Personalization team, your role will include working with data science teams to create machine-learned models and building a framework to quickly bring those models and their subsequent iterations into production and use the insights to optimize the customer experience at a large scale. Your responsibility will include both bringing models to production and enabling others to do the same. The framework you define will lay the foundation for a seamless pipeline that decreases the cost of launching ML models to increase the throughput of experimentation and experience optimization.

The Daily
• Design and implement the direct to consumer personlization solution to improve customers' search experience.
• Collaborating with team members and cross-functional teams
• Hold yourself and your team high standards while maintaining respectful relationships
• Maintain high-quality coding standards for yourself and your team
• Seek self-improvement and are adaptable to suggestions and feedback
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write

The Essentials
• A strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and operating systems
• 5+ years of experience in design, implementation, and delivery of large engineering projects
• 5+ years of professional development experience using languages such as Javascript, Typescript, Golang, Java, C, C++, C#
• A good understanding of large scale distributed systems
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (AWS, Google app engine, Azure, Kubernetes)
• Experience with cross-team coordination and collaboration
• Experience with dev-ops and 24x7 operational support for the production systems
• Hold yourself and your team high standards while maintaining respectful relationships

The Nice to Haves
• Experience with growing other engineers, defining team software standards and engineering best practices
• Machine learning or machine learning engineer experience will be a plus
• Full-stack industry experience, or hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology

The Perks
• Exclusive WarnerMedia events and advance screenings
• Paid time off every year to volunteer
• Access to well-being tools, resources, and freebies
• Access to in-house learning and development resources
• Part of the WarnerMedia family of powerhouse brands

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rbqjvy-52-14-150-55-42 in your application.

Company Profile
HBO

WarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content from a diverse array of talented storytellers and journalists to global audiences through its consumer brands including: HBO, HBO Now, HBO Max, Warner Bros., TNT, TBS, truTV, CNN, DC Entertainment, New Line, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and others.