Senior Software Engineer

Senior Staff Software Engineer – SiriusXM

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Sirius

XM and its brands (Pandora, Sirius

XM 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.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will join a highly performing team of engineers who build, own, and maintain backend services, data products and reporting applications. You will design, collaborate, and execute building the Ads Wizz data products and reporting systems at scale while automating and providing insights into the data onboarding with the SXM Media and Ads Wizz services.

• Design and build high-performance, reliable, and scalable reporting APIs and data pipelines.
• Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions, working with ad measurement, revenue and addressability data.
• Work with various teams of engineers building software in a collaborative development process.
• Execute tasks with utmost clarity and precision, demonstrating a strong sense of ownership and providing clear direction to drive projects forward effectively.
• Collaborate with the Product team to clarify the scope of the projects by giving thoughtful feedback which challenges and clarifies requirements intent.
• Collaborate with the Global Operations and Cloud Infrastructure teams to ensure flawless production deployments and support the Incident Management team.
• Conduct technical interviews as needed, ensuring a consistently high bar for engineering excellence and performance standards.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a similar field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience in Java programming language (preferably JDK
  17 or higher).
• 5+ years of experience developing and designing data applications and data pipelines.
• 7+ years of experience crafting microservices and scalable products, utilizing diverse cloud platforms (ideally AWS).
• Strong understanding of engineering software processes, lifecycle methodology, configuration management, release management, and system verification and testing.
• Ability to work independently and oversee entire projects or significant parts, focusing on completing tasks on time.
• Proven ability to research and become proficient in new technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail and a dedication to continuous improvement.
• Proficiency in constructing detailed software architecture diagrams.
• Interpersonal skills and ability to interact and work with staff at all levels.
• REST API-based microservices experience using Python, Java or similar.
• Cloud data warehouse & analytics platforms (Snowflake, Big Query).
• Experience designing, building, and managing data pipelines using Spark, Big Query, AWS EMR, and GCP Cloud Analytics.
• Familiarity with caching implementations (e.g., Redis, Memcached).
• Experience with messaging platforms and stream data processing (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub).
• Knowledge of data pipeline expectations frameworks (e.g., Monte Carlo, Great Expectations, Soda).
• Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes), observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) and collaboration tools (Miro, Jira, Confluence).
• Nice to have: expertise in designing and maintaining public APIs and data contracts.
• Nice to have: security basics (OAuth2).
• Nice to have: foundational Amazon Cloud Services (S3, Cloud Trail, SQS, SNS, Lambda, API Gateway, Elastic Cache, Athena, Kinesis, EKS, Cognito, etc.).
• Nice to have:
  No
  
  SQL database knowledge (Druid, Dynamo
  
  DB, Single Store, or others).
• Nice to have: hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and tools.
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

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