Discovery Inc

Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States,
Req ID: 32763

Overview

As television and media habits change, our mission remains true to the principles that founded Discovery every day we seek to ignite peoples curiosity to engage, entertain and enlighten the world around them through amazing viewing experiences.

The Direct to Consumer Group is a technology company within the Discovery brand. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our networks brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and really much more. We build user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We build for connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of Discovery owned networks (Discovery, Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, Discovery Play, and many more) This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to Discoverys future.

We are hiring a Software Development Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities

• The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team.
• You are a key influencer in your teams strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.
• You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
• You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.
• You provide mentoring to other engineers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing, building, deploying, testing, maintaining, monitoring and owning scalable, resilient and distributed systems and platforms.
• Expertise with CI/CD tools (AWS code pipelines, Jenkins or similar) to automate building, testing and deployment of the platforms and to manage the infrastructure (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Strong working knowledge of AWS services and offerings with deeper understanding of EC2, S3, SQS/SNS .
• Experience with one or more of: PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Proficient in Java including use of Futures, streams, Optional, and frameworks like SpringBoot and Hibernate.
• Usage and deep understanding of search technology (preferably Elastic Search)
• Usage and understanding of Docker and Kubernetes.
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Must have the legal right to work in the U.S.

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