Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from ViacomCBS, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world's biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the US in addition to the ability to stream ViacomCBS Streaming's other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

Description:

Brand/Division Overview:

The Applied Machine Learning Group within Paramount Global Streaming's Advanced Technologies division focuses on deploying machine learning techniques to improve products.

Role Details:

As a Cloud Backend Engineer - Content Platform on the Applied Machine Learning Group, you'll play a key role in the development of sophisticated products that collect, transform and enrich data in a fast, scalable and reliable way both for ourselves and our customers. Location is open for remote work.

Your Day-to-Day:
• Implement designs and collaborate with backend and frontend engineers to produce top-tier technical results
• Work with the product manager and lead engineers to design and develop a variety of features, reusable components and products ensuring data availability for recommendations, search, and video services
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Triage and fix reported bugs as well as issues related to performance
• Communicate estimates, schedules, issues and dependencies to technical or project lead
• Communicate often with other remote team members on our distributed team. Raise issues and blockers and follow through as needed
• Bring new ideas about technology to engineering team and product manager
• Become a subject matter expert on core backend system
• Participate in scheduled production releases

Key Projects:
• Design, implement and support ingestion pipelines providing source data critical to our ML models
• Originate new feature solutions for our transactional web application backend including data model and API endpoints
• Orchestrate downstream data source availability for use by our ML models and reporting

Qualifications:
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Solid foundation and programming experience in Python, Django and SQL
• Understanding of database concepts and data modeling
• Experience working on transactional web applications, identifying workflow use cases, and designing the appropriate solutions
• Production quality API development experience
• Experience building ingestion pipelines from external data sources
• Excellent problem solving, collaboration and interpersonal skills, both verbal and written
• Practiced in writing unit tests

Nice to have –
• Experience deploying to Cloud production environments
• Experience with ElasticSearch
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Argo Workflows
• Experience with version control systems (Git and Bitbucket)
• Experience using Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Storage and APIs)

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re4ej2-18-188-44-223-42 in your application.