Lead Software Engineer

Discovery; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor

Benefits package

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Discovery in Berkeley is seeking a Lead Software Engineer who thinks in Microsoft Azure, dreams in Go, and leads architectural reviews. You’ll own the end-to-end design of resilient, cloud-native systems while keeping delivery moving in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll mentor teams, defend uptime, migrate on-prem services to the cloud, and steer critical open design decisions. This on-site role requires 8 years of experience, strong judgment, and a passion for building scalable, secure software

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale engineering efforts.
• Willingness to relocate or already based in Berkeley.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple initiatives.
• Experience with cloud-native migrations and on-site collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Keep the Selenium build pipeline green so Berkeley deploys never wait on a red light
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Work-Life Balance and C#
• Defend Discovery uptime through the 2 a.m. Berkeley pages nobody volunteers for
• Lead technical design reviews for lead technology initiatives
• Catch the detail-loving Persuasion regression in staging before it ever reaches Berkeley customers
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Keep Discovery's GraphQL dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Keep Ruby schemas backward-compatible so Discovery never forces a breaking upgrade

Skills

Leadership

Prioritization

On-site work

Mentoring

Tools

Selenium

Django

GraphQL

Ruby

Go

C#

Job description

The Lead Software Engineer we're after in Berkeley thinks in Microsoft Azure, dreams in Go, and argues about naming conventions for sport. Stack the numbers: $175,000 - $263,000, 8 years required, full-time schedule, and a lead seat that grows as fast as you do.

Key Responsibilities

• Keep the Selenium build pipeline green so Berkeley deploys never wait on a red light
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Work-Life Balance and C#
• Defend Discovery uptime through the 2 a.m. Berkeley pages nobody volunteers for
• Lead technical design reviews for lead technology initiatives
• Catch the detail-loving Persuasion regression in staging before it ever reaches Berkeley customers
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Keep Discovery's GraphQL dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Keep Ruby schemas backward-compatible so Discovery never forces a breaking upgrade

What You'll Bring

• Work-Life Balance fundamentals plus the Django polish clients notice
• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a full-time project
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
• Prior experience working on-site in Berkeley, CA, or willingness to relocate
• Lead-caliber judgment about when to elevate and when to absorb

Discovery took a tired corner of the technology world and rebuilt it, brick by brick, from a small office in Berkeley, CA. We hand new Lead Software Engineer hires real ownership early because trust given freely tends to be returned.

You bring the Selenium; we bring $175,000 - $263,000, a mentor, a benefits package, and the freedom to grow on your terms in Berkeley.