Director, Software Engineering

This is a Full Time Job

Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA, PARAA) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic studios, networks and streaming services, Paramount's portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount , Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. Paramount delivers the largest share of the U.S. television audience and boasts one of the industry's most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, the company provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions.

As a Director of Engineering on the Paramount engineering team, you will be responsible for the product development, delivery, and operational support of our digital products spanning multiple platforms including Web, Apple, Android, Roku, and web-connected devices.

The ideal candidate is a veteran software engineer working with either web or native application development technologies and methodologies. This role will be responsible for leading the direction of our Data Science & Recommendation team. Coordinating across multiple multi-functional, global, agile development teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Empower, mentor, and lead talented engineers and engineering teams.

• Estimation and decomposition of user stories into technical requirements, acceptance criteria, and concrete tasks.

• Cultivating software quality. Defining and implementing processes related to the software development lifecycle, including style guidelines, code reviews, testing practices, build process, delivery, and deployment

• Manage an engineering roadmap and partner with our product teams to evaluate new projects and collaborate on the product roadmap

• Work with embedded QA teams to develop test plans for existing and new functionality and features.

• Designing robust and scalable solutions in accordance with current industry standards

• Production level support of our live applications, including incident response and performing root cause analysis

• Work with operations teams to coordinate plans for live events and to provide all necessary tools to monitor our live streaming infrastructure

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of relevant professional experience in software engineering
• 2 years of experience in leading and mentoring software engineers and agile teams.
• 5 years of experience designing, building, testing, and deploying production-ready applications, scalable, apps, and websites.

Additional Qualifications:

• Willingness to learn new languages, frameworks, and techniques
• Passion for problem-solving and the ability to find solutions to difficult challenges
• Curiosity, desire to learn, and contribute to, and improve our products, software development lifecycle, and engineering culture
• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes
• Fluency with at least one of the following languages: Javascript, Swift / Objective-C, Kotlin / Java
• Proficient with related infrastructure, ecosystems, and/or app store deployments for your chosen platforms. Development environments, build tools, etc.
• Content Delivery Networks and their caching models (Fastly, Akamai, CloudFront, etc.)
• Client and Server-side Ad Insertion

You may also have:
• Open-source development experience
• Experience working with Cloud/SaaS services such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud
• Strong working knowledge of internet protocols and delivery methodologies (CDNs, HTTP, DNS, BGP)
• Experience with containers technology and management such as Docker and Kubernetes

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $200,000.00 - 220,000.00. The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York City, California, Colorado, Washington state, a