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We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.JOB DESCRIPTION\nABOUT THE ROLE\nWe are looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer to lead delivery of reliable, scalable services for audio/video hosting, monetization, and analytics in the media and creator space at a global footprint scale. You will work primarily in Python on APIs, asynchronous background job orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and data pipelines alongside Celery, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and cloud primitives on AWS and GCP, partnering with product, frontend, and infrastructure engineers.\n A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES\nLead design and implementation of RESTful APIs and async workers(Celery) for publishing, media processing, SSAI and VAST-related workflows, imports, and reporting.\nOwn reliability and performance of distributed systems and workloads: queue design, deduplication, chord and dispatch patterns, prefetch tuning, backpressure, and operational logging that supports incident response.\nDrive data and integration decisions across PostgreSQL, Redis-backed coordination, object storage, and systems such as data warehouse-backed reporting (batching, limits, and cost-aware query patterns).\nLead or significantly contribute to Terraform and AWS changes affecting the application: EB tiers, IAM, networking, WAF and rate limits, observability hooks, and phased rollouts.\nRaise the bar on observability: structured logging, Prometheus-style metrics, Grafana and CloudWatch usage, and alarms wired to actionable on-call signals\nDefine and evolve testing strategy for critical paths (unit and regression around task helpers and services, AI-driven testing), CI-friendly checks, and operational readiness for risky migrations.\nRepresent backend concerns in planning, design reviews, and incident-style discussions; communicate trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical partners.\nAnticipate scaling and complexity: propose phased migrations, safer defaults, and long-term maintainability over short-term hacks.\n WHAT YOU WILL NEED\n10+ years of professional backend or backend-heavy engineering experience in platform systems, or equivalent depth, including meaningful ownership of large services or platforms.\nStrong Python and a track record designing service-oriented systems: APIs, background jobs, idempotency, failure modes, and capacity thinking.\nDeep hands-on experience with Celery (or similar) and message brokers (AMQP and RabbitMQ-class), including heartbeats, retries, queue splits, and operational debugging.\nStrong SQL (PostgreSQL) and practical Redis usage beyond simple caching: coordination, rate limiting, circuit breaking, and correctness under concurrency.\nSubstantial cloud infrastructure experience with GCP and AWS (for example AWS: EC2, ALB, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, RDS and proxy patterns) and comfort leading Terraform changes.\nContainer building, deployment (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes), and multi-cloud networking a strong plus.\nSubstantial experience with CI/CD in cloud environment.\nDemonstrated leadership in security-minded engineering: scoped IAM, TLS for data stores, network egress discipline, WAF and rate-limiting concepts.\nExperience with authorization at scale (RBAC, ABAC, or policy engines) is a strong plus.\nExcellent judgment under ambiguity, written communication, and a record of raising team quality without blocking delivery.\nExperience in early start-up or otherwise fast moving, rapidly evolving environments, and have ideally built products from 0 to 1.\nExperience successfully driving cross-team alignment to get impactful work shipped, and work with influence over authority.\nDemonstrated experience establishing engineering standards, component architectures, and development best practices\nTechnical skills\nLanguages and runtimes: Python, TypeScript\nAsync and jobs: Celery, AMQP, and RabbitMQ\nData: PostgreSQL, Redis, S3 patterns; Druid, BigQuery, or large analytical query constraints (nice to have)\nAPIs: REST, JSON, gRPC, schema validation patterns\nCloud and Infrastructure-as-Code: AWS, Terraform, Containers, Docker, Elastic Beanstalk exposure\nObservability: Prometheus metrics, Grafana, CloudWatch, structured logging\nTesting and delivery: pytest, Git, GitHub Actions/workflow-style CI/CD\nDomain (nice to have): media, entertainment, creator economy, CTV, OTT, SSAI, VAST, CDN, edge processing\nThe AI Mandate: AI-Driven Development Practice\nThis role goes beyond traditional engineering. As a Staff Engineer, you will help define how AI is integrated into backend development. The goal is to unlock smarter execution, faster delivery, and automation at scale, while ensuring responsible and secure use of these technologies.\nThis includes but is not limited to:\nAI-Augmented Backend Development:\nEstablishing best practices for AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) to accelerate development while maintaining high standards for correctness, security, and performance. You will set the bar for responsible and effective AI usage across backend teams.\nAI-Enhanced Architecture & Optimization:\nExploring and guiding how AI can assist in system design, performance tuning, and anomaly detection across distributed backend systems. You will influence how AI-powered insights improve throughput, latency, and operational efficiency.\nAI-Driven Developer Experience:\nDriving improvements in internal tools and workflows that leverage AI to enhance productivity, code quality, and observability, helping evolve backend engineering culture into an AI-native practice.\nWilling to consider candidates in Texas\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.\nPursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $143,000.00-190,000.00 annually. This role is also eligible for various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. 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