Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

HBO Max is where storytelling takes center stage and where creatives find a home with the support and resources to do their best work, no matter the genre or format. Whatever the viewer wants to watch is front and center and more of what they crave is easily discovered. It is where our exclusive HBO Max Originals and iconic entertainment brands thrive, with HBO, Warner Bros., DC, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network and more delivering the greatest array of series, movies and specials for audiences of all ages. The platform launched in the United States in May 2020 and introduced a lower priced, advertising-supported tier in June 2021. HBO Max began its global rollout launching in markets across Latin America and the Caribbean last summer, followed by its first European launches in the Nordics and Spain in the fall. Currently available in 46 countries, there are plans for continued expansion of HBO Max in 2022.

Staff Software Engineer - HBO Max

The Job

The Content 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.

The Daily
• Design, architect, and support the personalization solutions that provide engaging experiences to our customers.
• Collaborating with team members and cross-functional teams to define and identify opportunities to improve the personalization experience.
• You'll become an industry expert in the world of content personalization
• Ideate and innovate on complex software solutions
• You are a team resource, growing other engineers and defining team software standards and engineering best practices
• 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
• Proactively identifies and leads projects to improve automation of development, test, and operational processes across teams.
• Hold yourself and your team to high standards while maintaining friendly, respectful relationships

The Essentials
• A strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and operating systems
• 8+ 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 strong 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
• Machine learning or machine learning engineer experience will be a strong plus
• Experience with growing other engineers, defining team software standards and engineering best practices
• Full-stack industry experience, or hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology

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