Software Engineer

BBC Group and Public Services; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join BBC Studios as a Data Platform Engineer, playing a critical role in shaping the data infrastructure that drives innovation across the organization. You will leverage modern technologies like AWS and Node.js to deliver high-performance data tools, ensuring accessibility and efficiency for all data teams. Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits while working in a hybrid environment at our London office.

Benefits

Flexible 35-hour working week

26 days holiday plus additional leave options

Parental leave for new parents, up to a year

Defined contribution pension scheme

Excellent career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and maintaining infrastructure on AWS.
• Experience developing backend services using Node.js.
• Familiarity with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and maintaining core data infrastructure.
• Delivering secure, scalable data platform components.
• Monitoring and optimizing system reliability and performance.

Skills

AWS

Node.js

Terraform

CI/CD

SQL

Docker

Job description

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Salary: up to £55,000 London Weighting (£5,319) depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Location: Office Base is London, Television Centre. This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

ABOUT BBC STUDIOS

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe. We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we’re the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.

ABOUT THE DATA PLATFORM TEAM

Our Data Platform Squad plays a pivotal role in empowering the wider business with the data and infrastructure tools needed to drive innovation, insights, and storytelling through data. We build and maintain the foundational technology stack that will underpin our data products, ensuring that teams across BBC Studios can easily and securely access the information they need.

THE ROLE

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the core data infrastructure at BBC Studios. Working closely with other members of the Data Platform Squad, you will create automated and scalable solutions that enable data engineers, analysts, and product teams to seamlessly access and process large volumes of data. This is a hands-on engineering role that involves utilizing a variety of modern technologies and best practices—such as AWS cloud services, Terraform for infrastructure as code, Node.js microservices, and the Snowflake data platform—to deliver reliable, and high-performance data tools and services

Part of the responsabilities will be also:

• Delivering secure, scalable data platform components that improve productivity and reduce friction for data teams.
• Proactively monitoring, optimizing, and improving system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Continuously collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and refine the platform’s capabilities.
• Ensuring that platform solutions are well-documented, tested, and aligned with best practices in both software engineering and data governance.
• Demonstrating a willingness to learn and adapt within a newly created and continuously evolving platform environment.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Strong experience building and maintaining infrastructure on AWS (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, Route 53).
• Strong experience developing backend services using Node.js (TypeScript experience is a plus).
• Demonstrable proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools.
• Proven knowledge of SQL and familiarity with relational database concepts
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps best practices.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

• Exposure to other programming languages (e.g. or Python) for data tooling and automation.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Experience with Snowflake or a similar cloud data warehouse platform.

LIFE AT BBC STUDIOS

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, that represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities. Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody.

More information on our D&I plan can be foundhere.

BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and offscreen, including delivering against the BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets.

More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here

We are proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please contact us on [e-mail].

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM WORKING AT BBC STUDIOS?

• We offer a competitive salary package
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the
  option to buy an extra 5 days
• Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18
  weeks fully paid
• A defined contribution pension scheme with employer contributions up to 10%;
  and life assurance (at 4 times annual salary), eligibility for discounted dental,
  health care, gym and much more through salary sacrifice
• Excellent career progression – access to courses, webinars, workshops and the
  opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation

NEXT STEPS

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your
understanding.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory

DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.