Senior Software Engineer, Cloud & AI Data Platforms

Sky UK Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sky TV/ NOW package

Pension up to 9%

Private healthcare

GP and dental insurance

Sky product discounts

Sharesave & Tech schemes

Sky VIP rewards

Job summary

Sky is seeking an experienced Senior Software Developer to join the Network Software & Data Science team. You will design, build, and evolve software platforms, services and data products that enable advanced analytics, automation, forecasting, optimisation, and AI-driven decision making across Sky’s networks.

The role sits at the intersection of software engineering, cloud infrastructure and data science, building scalable cloud-native solutions and collaborating with data scientists, network

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience developing software applications using Python.
• Experience with modern Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles including testing, design patterns, maintainability, and code quality.
• Experience building and deploying applications on cloud platforms, preferably GCP, although AWS or Azure experience is also valued.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD practices using tools such as GitHub Actions, Concourse, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Experience working with Git-based development workflows.
• Understanding of data engineering and analytical workflows, including data ingestion, transformation, storage, and reporting.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively within agile, cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable software platforms, APIs, and analytical applications.
• Build cloud-native services that support analytical, optimisation, forecasting, and AI workloads.
• Collaborate with data scienceists, data engineers, and network domain experts to translate business requirements into robust software solutions.
• Develop backend services and APIs using Python and modern frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Design and implement containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Develop reusable platform components that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to data product development, including ingestion, transformation, model deployment, and visualisation workflows.
• Ensure software solutions meet security, reliability, scalability, and performance requirements.
• Support operational excellence through observability, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.
• Contribute to technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to fostering a strong engineering culture.

Skills

Python

Frameworks

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

CI/CD

Git workflows

Cloud platforms

Data workflows

Agile

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Pandas

Apache Beam

Spark

Airflow

Job description

Sky is seeking an experienced Senior Software Developer to join the Network Software & Data Science team. You will design, build, and evolve software platforms, services and data products that enable advanced analytics, automation, forecasting, optimisation, and AI-driven decision making across Sky’s networks.

The role sits at the intersection of software engineering, cloud infrastructure and data science, building scalable cloud-native solutions and collaborating with data scientists, network