Staff Software Engineer

AdsWizz; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SiriusXM in Dublin is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Unified Access and Lifecycle Services team within Growth Engineering. You will guide high-throughput, scalable services powering SiriusXM and Pandora for tens of millions of listeners across North America.

You will mentor engineers across Europe (Spain, UK), collaborate with Services, Client SDK, Data Analytics, and drive architecture discussions while upholding coding standards and a culture of ownership.

Qualifications

• Seven+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Expertise in Scala and functional programming.
• Experience designing RESTful web APIs in an enterprise setting.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle, including source control, CI/CD and testing approaches.
• Deep distributed systems knowledge in production environments.
• Experience with AWS in production, including compute, databases, storage, containers and serverless.
• Proficiency in asynchronous programming models on the JVM.

Responsibilities

• Lead a geographically distributed group of engineers in Europe (Spain + UK).
• Collaborate with Services teams, Client SDK, Data Engineers, and Data Analytics teams.
• Innovate to build performant solutions that scale with business demands; document architectures as needed.
• Foster a healthy engineering culture and drive best practices.
• Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions.
• Develop simple solutions to complex problems.
• Ensure team-wide code quality through reviews and PR feedback.
• Exhibit accountability at personal and team levels.

Skills

Scala

Functional programming

REST APIs

Distributed systems

AWS

Asynchronous programming

JVM

CI/CD

Containers

Serverless

Tools

CI/CD

Containers

Serverless

Kubernetes

JVM tooling

Job description

Who we are

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SiriusXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connect) 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.

We are proud to have launched a new state-of-the-art technology facility in Dublin, Ireland. The Dublin-based team plays a critical role in our continued digital transformation and will function as a centre of excellence for SiriusXM’s global Product and Technology organization.

SiriusXM’s new Dublin facility will comprise a workforce primarily focused on software development, automotive technology and engineering, AdTech, data science, and analytics. Talent based in the new technology hub will be charged with developing and implementing best-in-class standards for high-quality, scalable software deliveries for SiriusXM’s streaming and in-vehicle audio entertainment platforms

How you’ll make an impact

SiriusXM’s Services and Platform Engineering organization is growing in Dublin! We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Unified Access and Lifecycle Services team within the Growth Engineering organization. The Unified Access and Lifecycle Services team is responsible for building high throughput, highly available services on SiriusXM’s service platform that are critical to the user experience. Our engineers are building the next generation of production services that power SiriusXM and Pandora, serving tens of millions of listeners across North America.

What you’ll do

This role will lead a group of highly collaborative engineers, geographically distributed in Europe (Spain +UK).

Work closely with other Services teams, Client SDK, Data Engineers, Data Analytics teams

Innovate to build performant solutions that continue to scale to the increasing business demands. Turning solutions into architecture diagrams and tech briefs when necessary.

Contribute to a healthy engineering culture and drive best practices.

Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions.

Strive to develop simple solutions to complex problems.

Ensure team-wide code quality through code reviews and PR feedback.

Exhibit accountability at both a personal and team level.

Author and provide feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses.

Help research and recommend new technologies to solve strategic issues.

What you’ll need

Minimum of seven years of professional experience.

Expertise in Scala and functional programming paradigms.

Experience designing and implementing RESTful web APIs in an enterprise setting.

Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, including the use of source control, CI/CD and various testing approaches.

Deep distributed systems knowledge, having supported multiple high-throughput systems in a production setting.

Experience with AWS in a production setting, preferably having leveraged offerings for compute, databases, storage, containers and serverless technologies.

Experience with asynchronous programming models, ideally those that support high-throughput systems running on the JVM in a production setting.

Pragmatic approach to weighing engineering trade-offs versus business needs.

Persistent sense of curiosity to understand why something is and needs to be.

Accountability and a sense of extreme ownership that doesn’t end after the system is deployed to production.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, colour, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.