# Senior Software Engineer

Whip Media is transforming how the world’s largest media and entertainment companies manage, distribute, and monetize content across the global streaming supply chain. Our flagship product, Helix, is an AI-native system designed to radically optimize content operations - enabling data-driven decisions that maximize revenue, streamline distribution, and scale profitable strategies. Trusted by top studios, networks, and streaming platforms, we sit at the intersection of media and technology, redefining the business of content. About Helix: Helix is our next-generation system built with long-term scale, efficiency, and operational excellence in mind. We’re rebuilding core capabilities the right way: stable foundations first, automation and self-service second, shared services third. The Platform team builds the reusable infrastructure, patterns, and tooling that every Helix service depends on. The Role: As a Senior Software Engineer on the Helix Platform team, you will build and operate the foundational services, tooling, and patterns used across the Helix ecosystem. You’ll work heavily in Go, build gRPC + REST APIs, design multi-tenant data models in PostgreSQL (JSONB included), and

- **Id**: 1311572
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/whipmedia-senior-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Monica, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-30T19:46:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-06-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T08:51:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 135
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- **Description chars**: 5623
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- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Mobile reimbursement, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data & Analytics

## Company

- **Id**: 2567952
- **Name**: Whipmedia
- **Domain**: whipmedia.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/whipmedia>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: ADP

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 180000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 180000

## Technologies

- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Envoy** — Optional: yes
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 135

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T16:43:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.286
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 134
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 180000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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