Job Description
Who We Are:
Sirius XM and its brands (Pandora, SXM Media, Ads Wizz, Simplecast, and Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices.
Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.
This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world.
Our critically acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting.
No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing Sirius XM's vision to life every day.
We are proud to be launching a new state-of-the-art technology facility in Dublin, Ireland.
The Dublin-based team will play a critical role in our continued digital transformation and will function as a center of excellence for Sirius XM's global Product and Technology organization.
Sirius XM's new Dublin facility will comprise a workforce primarily focused on software development, automotive technology and engineering, Ad Tech, data science, and analytics.
Talent based in the new technology hub will be charged with developing and implementing best-in-class standards for high-quality, scalable software deliveries for Sirius XM's streaming and in-vehicle audio entertainment platforms.
How you'll make an impact:
We are looking for a Director, Software Engineering to join the Content Services team within the Platform Services Engineering organization.
The Content Services team is responsible for building high throughput, highly available services on Sirius XM's service platform that are critical to the user experience.
This service platform will power multiple Sirius XM consumer products that reach millions of users (Pandora, Stitcher, SXM Media, Sirius XM Connected Vehicle Services).
In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of the team that's reinventing the platform and infrastructure that millions of Sirius XM/Pandora subscribers use to display visual recommendations for relevant and personalized content - thinking about everything from the experience to the system architecture supporting it.
You will be involved in the design, rollout, and support of a highly performant, highly scalable and highly available personalization platform with your team.
Personalization is a complex, cutting edge problem space and you will help your senior team navigate uncertainty and make effective implementation tradeoff decisions, relying on careful reasoning and decision making around a significant infrastructure budget.
What you'll do:
This role will manage a geographically dispersed team.
Lead a group of highly collaborative engineers.
Work closely with Science/ML team, Data Engineers, Data Analytics teams to stay on top of Personalization roadmap and deliverables.
Innovate to build performant solutions that continue to scale to the increasing business demands.
Turning solutions into architecture diagrams and tech briefs when necessary.
Contribute to a healthy engineering culture and drive best practices.
Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions.
Strive to develop simple solutions to complex problems.
Ensure team-wide code quality through code reviews and PR feedback.
Exhibit accountability at both a personal and team level.
Author and provide feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses.
Help research and recommend new technologies to solve strategic issues.
What you'll need:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent experience, in lieu of degree.
10+ years of software engineering experience.
5+ years leading software engineering teams in a technical organization.
Expertise in Scala, Java and functional programming paradigms.
Strong understanding of engineering software processes, lifecycle methodology, configuration management, release management, and system verification and testing.
Has successfully built resilient multi-region microservices at scale by leveraging AWS.
Interpersonal skills and ability to interact and work with staff at all levels.
Build & Release best practices.
Experience with event-driven systems architectures.
Good understanding of recommendation systems and ranking factors.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify SEO issues and provide effective solutions.
Experience designing and implementing RESTful web APIs in an enterprise setting.
Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, including the use of source control, CI/CD and various testing approaches.
Deep distributed systems knowledge, having supported multiple high-throughput systems in a production setting.
Experience with AWS in a production setting, preferably having leveraged offerings for compute, databases, storage, containers and serverless technologies.
Experience with asynchronous programming models, ideally those that support high-throughput systems running on the JVM in a production setting.
Pragmatic approach to weighing engineering tradeoffs versus business needs.
Persistent sense of curiosity to understand why something is and needs to be.
Accountability and a sense of extreme ownership that doesn't end after the system is deployed to production.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Our goal at Sirius XM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation.
Sirius XM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.
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