Software Engineering Technical Lead
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Position Summary
Samsung Electronics Americas North American Service Business is tasked with building consumer services at a global scale. Driving growth in ad based services and streaming compelling media to all Samsung screens TVs phones tablets web etc. . This backend engineer will be architecting coding and deploying modules to our existing AWS backend for TV Plus. They will also provide technical mentorship and leadership to a backend team and help architect solutions for upcoming media streaming projects. The right candidate will have a high degree of technical proficiency and the patience and willingness to share it with others.Role and Responsibilities
Main Responsibilities
- Perform as a technical mentor and individual contributor of a small distributed team of software engineers in an everchanging corporate environment.
- Implement backend service components tasks and architecture to support TV Plus serverside ad insertion linearization ad markers session management etc.
- Work in an agile taskbased environment (I hope you like Jira! to conduct engineering activities projects research and/or operational tests in conformance to functional specifications design requirements operational capacities and customer performance expectations.
- Debug production issues raised by customers and customer support teams isolate the cause and work towards a fix.
- Participate in meetings with other engineering staff and stakeholders to work towards ideal solutions and develop a deep understanding of requirements to help break them down into engineering tasks.
- Exercise judgment in selecting methods techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
The Stack
- Strong proficiency in Golang and/or Python for backend development; some occasional front end work may be required primarily in .
- DevOps/infrastructure experience with deployment via Git Github Actions Docker Kubernetes EKS and other AWS infrastructure is a strong plus.
- DB management through Mongo.
- Primarily OSX/Mac development machines with Unixbased (Linux) deployment
- Monitoring using CloudWatch DataDog
- Usage of various AWS Elemental products (MediaConnect MediaLive MediaPackage MediaTailor)
Skills and Qualifications
Qualifications
- 8 years of software development experience in a largescale production environment
- Bachelors/Masters Degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related STEM field
- Experience working in HLS streaming or with video tools is a plus.
- Positive attitude highly flexible and selfmotivated
- Able to communicate complex technical matters to an audience of equal or higher technical competency.
- Strong understanding of security compliance
- Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Ability to debug unfamiliar distributed architectures and isolate problems
- Ability to deliver and accept feedback on code and design
- Experience in writing unit and integration tests.
- Experience in continuous integration/deployment preferred
- Highly detailoriented with strong analytical skills
- Ability to work and communicate effectively with partners in different cultures and geographies
- Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
- Highly detailoriented with strong analytical skills
- Normally receives general instructions on routine work with detailed instructions on new projects or assignments
Position Requirements
- Flexibility to travel to meet with internal teams
- Minimum 3 day/week inoffice
- Rotational oncall for teams supported services
Compensation for this role for candidates based in Mountain View CA is expected to be between $175000 $220000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience and comparison to other employees in the role.
Regular fulltime employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits including: Medical Dental Vision Life Insurance 401(k) Employee Purchase Program Tuition Assistance (after 6 months) Paid Time Off Student Loan Program (after 6 months) Wellness Incentives and many more.
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