Senior Principal Software Engineer
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Job Summary
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Discoverability
LOCATION: Office Base is Newcastle or Salford Dock House or London Broadcasting House or Glasgow Pacific Quay Hybrid. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to 115000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Job Introduction
We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products at scale. Working here in an engineering role means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career
Our Discoverability teams are building platform capabilities that make it easier for audiences to find personalised and contextually relevant content. Our goal is to create the first personalisation platform rooted in public service values.
Were looking for an experienced software engineering leader in Machine Learning to join us as a Senior Principal Software Engineer. You will be responsible for shaping developing and delivering machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. This will help create robust scalable and innovative personalisation systems that power our digital services.
Interview process
Technical task for shortlisted candidates approx. one hour preparation time (week commencing 13th October)
Virtual interview approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions interviews to begin 20th October *this may be subject to change)
Main Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership and mentoring set technical standards and define best practice.
Ensure reliability scalability and maintainability of our ML capabilities.
Cross functional collaboration with product architecture and data science
Ensure that machine learning solutions are effectively integrated into products and deliver measurable sustainable business value
Identify and champion innovation within teams
Active participant in Industry ML forums and communities
Are you the right candidate
Significant experience as a senior individual contributor Senior Principal Software Engineer / Staff Engineer
Excellent communication skills and experience with managing multi-disciplinary stakeholders.
Extensive experience setting technical direction across multiple software engineering teams.
Extensive experience in large scale machine learning including building deploying scaling and securing ML infrastructure in cloud-native environments.
Strong experience with AWS services including SageMaker Bedrock S3 EC2 Lambda IAM VPC ECS/EKS DynamoDB Kafka CloudFormation and associated technologies such as Python
Proven ability to drive cross functional technical initiatives and deliver results through collaboration and alignment.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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