Senior Software Engineer - Real-Time Content Reliability

Aquent

Bell Gardens (CA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 200,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Aquent is partnered with a leading global technology company to support a Senior Software Engineer role focused on live content creation and real-time user experiences. You will own production issues end-to-end, ensuring reliability across a high-visibility platform for millions of users, with opportunities to influence platform health and scalability.

The role emphasizes on-call ownership, debugging across frontend and backend, and delivering robust fixes, tests, and observability improvements

Qualifications

5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Bachelor’s degree in CS, CE, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Robust backend development experience, including building and debugging server-side services and APIs.
Experience with on-call duties in a high-traffic consumer product environment.

Responsibilities

Participate in on-call rotation for live content creation surfaces, triaging and resolving production issues.
Debug and resolve issues across web frontend and backend services in the live content creation stack.
Deliver bug fixes, reliability improvements, and small to medium features.
Improve on-call health by reducing alert noise, refining runbooks, and enhancing monitoring and dashboards.
Develop and maintain tests to ensure stability of critical live content flows.
Document findings and solutions for a shared knowledge base.