Senior Software Engineer (Advertising Technology - AWS experience required)

Description

The role centres on storytelling and the company builds entertainment across TV, streaming and film, reaching audiences of every age.

The company is a global media and entertainment business with three segments: studios, direct-to-consumer, and TV media. Its brands include Paramount, Warner Bros., HBO, CBS, CNN, Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, HGTV and Comedy Central, among others.

You will join teams that work quickly, aim high and share ownership of results.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and ship scalable, cloud-native services for the company's advertising technology stack.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain services for ad serving, campaign management and identity.
• Create APIs and integrations with third-party AdTech partners and data providers.
• Design and run ETL pipelines and real-time processing for ad performance, forecasting and yield optimization.
• Use big data tools such as Spark and Kafka to process large datasets.
• Help move legacy systems to modular, cloud-native architectures.
• Build observability, security and compliance practices into the platform.
• Work with product and operations teams to match technical work to business goals.
• Share engineering best practices and mentor junior engineers as needed.

Requirements

• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field.
• At least 5 years of software engineering experience, including exposure to AdTech or large-scale distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Scala or Python.
• Experience with a cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure). AWS experience is required for this role.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with big data tools such as Spark and Kafka, and with streaming architectures.
• Understanding of advertising workflows, including forecasting, yield optimization, identity and campaign execution.
• Ability to work with data scientists, product and platform engineering teams, and to mentor junior engineers.

Conditions

This is a hybrid role.

Base pay ranges from $131,600 to $244,400 per year.

Actual pay depends on factors such as location, market data, internal equity, skills, experience, training, education and performance.

Candidates with a disability can request accommodations during the application process.

Benefits

• Annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives and program-specific awards may be offered in addition to base pay.
• Health insurance coverage and an employee wellness program.
• Life and disability insurance and a retirement savings plan.
• Paid holidays, sick time and vacation.