Platform Software Engineer - (Java, Python, or Javascript)

In Nielsen Media, we are the market leader that drives content ratings across virtually all viewing platforms including local and national TV, streaming, digital advertising, and more.  This role is in the Media Platform team, where we heavily leverage open source software and cloud technologies to build a single central platform for managing compute, storage, the Media Data Lake (multi PB), ingestion pipeline, orchestration, data science tooling, and more.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and enrich our platform by leveraging open source and cloud-native software.
• Learn the internals of open source projects and fork/augment them to better fit our scalability, reliability, functional, and security needs (e.g. Presto, Airflow, Hive, Jupyter, etc).
• Leverage kubernetes to drive resource efficiency, auto scaling, standardized deployment, and consistency of monitoring.
• Employ proper DevOps practices with a genuine concern for code quality assessment, implicit/automated testing, and frequent, no-downtime deployment.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of software development.
• The training to back your work: a masters degree, bachelor’s degree, or, as we recognize there isn’t one formula for success, equivalent work experience.
• Intensive knowledge in either Java, Python, or Javascript.  This includes all aspects from development through to production (build tools, deployment tools, deployment methods, configuration strategies, etc).
• Computer science fundamentals - algorithms and data structures.
• Personal Plusses - contribution to open source projects, active tech blogging, speaking engagements, pet projects
• Technical Plusses - knowledge of big data systems (e.g. Spark, Presto, HDFS), orchestration (e.g. Airflow), containerization (e.g. docker, kubernetes), databases/SQL. Knowledge of Golang is a plus.