Senior Software Engineer

Who We Are

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, Stitcher, SXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services) 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.

This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM’s vision to life every day.

SiriusXM

SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM’s platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Stitcher, Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company’s advertising sales organization, which operates as SXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.

How You’ll Make An Impact

As a key member of the Digital Services team, the successful candidate will architect, develop, and code services for the next generation of SiriusXM/Pandora streaming applications. We’re looking for an engineer with experience in building highly scalable and highly performant microservices written in Java or Scala that will help provide an enriching listening experience to our listeners. Deploying and monitoring your code on the AWS platform is an added advantage. You should be willing to take personal responsibility for testing the code you write and monitor it end to end and its performance in production. You should have strong academic credentials and a degree in Computer Science or a related field. You should be enthusiastic about learning new technologies and skills. You must be capable of managing your time well and working collaboratively. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, are required.

What You’ll Do

• Build the APIs that power the next generation SiriusXM/Pandora streaming clients
• Write unit and integration tests and advise Quality Engineering on acceptance tests
• Create/modify schemas as needed to achieve feature and user interface requirements
• Develop on AWS primitives such as Kinesis, ECS, DynamoDB, DAX, and Aurora
• Demonstrate working software during in-person and/or virtual meetings with stakeholders
• Actively participate in and positively contribute to SCRUM meetings (daily standup, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospective)
• Lead or contribute to investigations and discussions with other developers, product management, designers, data scientists, and talent curator/creator personnel as a representative of the Client API team
• Share your knowledge with other team members, including mentoring and training others
• Write external-facing documentation for consumers of the API and internal documentation for fellow team members
• Perform service deployment activities, perform maintenance, and respond to production issues as needed.

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years experience developing back-end server software, preferably in Java or Scala
• Experience with AWS – deployments, DynamoDB, elasticache etc
• Experience developing for Linux-based deployment platforms, developing scalable, multithreaded server-side software for deployment
• Experience developing service-oriented and event-driven architectures
• Experience with API design/development – RPC, REST, JSON, gRPC
• Experience unit testing with frameworks – Junit
• BA/BS or above in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience developing with additional languages – Python, Kotlin
• Experience developing no-SQL applications of significant complexity
• Experience with automated deployment procedures using dev-ops tooling
• Must have the legal right to work in the US

We're considering candidates for multiple positions and levels. Successful candidates will be placed at appropriate level depending on their qualifications or experience.

At SiriusXM, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your background and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We expect the base salary for this position to be in the range of $120,000 to $160,000 and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.

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, color, 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.

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