Software Development Engineer

Job Description

The Video Engineering team provides foundational services, delivering ad supported, streaming video capabilities to our 200+ properties. These include our local news operations, sports operations, The Tennis Channel, and STIRR. These provide 24x7 news and entertainment to our nationwide audience. We are excited to be extending our current capabilities and helping shape the future of IPTV and Next Gen TV by creating standalone microservices, enabling a fast, stable, and scalable platform.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
• Design and develop code and leverage technology to maintain and extend our cloud-based platform services, strengthening the architecture, enhancing stability , reliability and performance of our components
• Deliver incremental value to the business, our content producers and our audience through iterative improvements to our products and the way they are experienced
• Demonstrate technical leadership within the Agile team, raising up your peers and team members, enabling the success of the team and the wider organization, while acting tactically to consistently deliver innovative, durable solutions
• Lead and influence the architectural design of features that f ully meet specifications whilst driving quality and embracing and extending existing policies, practices and design patterns
• Communicate and coordinate effectively across impacted t eams and stakeholders , working with customer support, engineering and operational teams to ensure systems are intuitive, secure, scalable, reliable, and performant
• Continually seek opportunities to increase effectiveness and value by improving processes and practices around application deployment and management

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
• 5+ years software development experience
• Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred
• Experience designing and building highly scalable and reliable, event-based web services
• Strong automation skills related to continuous integration and continuous delivery (tool agnostic) and the ability to drive initiatives to automate processes
• Expert skill in any of the following tools and systems: Docker/Kubernetes, GitLab, Amazon Cloud
• Experience with Cloud Encoding workflows

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace!

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rev6z2-18-189-2-122-42 in your application.