Lead Engineer, Discovery

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Paramount

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1912

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Consulting • Marketing • Media

Paramount is a global multimedia entertainment and news company that offers a range of services including direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming through Paramount+. It also owns Pluto TV, a leading free streaming television service, MTV, the world’s premier youth entertainment brand, and CBS Sports, a leader in television sports broadcasts. Paramount Pictures, since 1912, has been a legendary producer and distributor of films, hosting a library of over 1,000 titles. The company is deeply committed to inclusion and impact, focusing on diversity, global sustainability, and content that affects change. Being a significant player in both live and on-demand streaming services, Paramount embraces a wide array of content from sports to kids’ entertainment, comedy, and groundbreaking documentaries, impacting both linear and streaming platforms globally.

📋 Description

• Drive architecture and design for backend services and APIs covering search, browse, recommendations, editorial curation, and content metadata • Serve as hands-on technical authority in design reviews • Break large-scale architectural initiatives into shippable, measurable phases • Lead delivery of the highest-complexity or highest-risk components • Set and enforce standards for code quality, testing, API design, and documentation • Ensure backend services meet availability, low-latency, and high-concurrency targets • Lead on-call practices, incident response, and postmortems • Serve as senior escalation point for complex production issues • Define, track, and optimize operational KPIs • Partner with Product Management and Data Science & Personalization • Represent the team in cross-domain technical discussions • Communicate technical trade-offs, design decisions, and risks • Mentor and grow engineers through code review, design pairing, and hands-on guidance • Partner with the Engineering Manager on technical hiring and onboarding • Foster technical ownership and operational accountability • Coordinate with distributed or offshore engineering partners • Contribute to agile workflows including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives • Own documentation for system architecture, API contracts, domain data models, and operational runbooks

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience • Strong track record as a senior hands-on contributor on backend and distributed systems in streaming, media, e-commerce, or another high-traffic consumer platform • Experience owning the design and delivery of high-concurrency APIs or platforms consumed at scale across heterogeneous client surfaces • Strong familiarity with search indexing, recommendation pipelines, content metadata, or ranking systems • Deep, current, hands-on expertise in distributed systems, API design, caching strategies, and data modeling for high-throughput, low-latency services • Ability to serve as the technical tie-breaker in architecture reviews • Hands-on expertise with Java-based backend services, cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred), and modern CI/CD practices • Experience operating services under strict SLAs • Experience using metrics such as p99 latency, error rates, cache hit ratios, and A/B test data • Track record of mentoring engineers without formal management authority • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills • Comfortable working with geographically distributed engineering teams across time zones • Strong bias toward incremental, measurable delivery • Proactive ownership of operational health and system reliability • Preferred: recommendation systems, ML-adjacent infrastructure, or search technologies such as Elasticsearch or Solr • Preferred: multi-brand or multi-app streaming platforms (AVOD, SVOD, FAST) • Preferred: vendor and offshore engineering resource experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) plan • Life insurance coverage • Disability benefits • Tuition assistance program • PTO • Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages • Generous paid time off • Complimentary subscriptions to HBO Max, Paramount+, and other Skydance streaming services and digital news products • Exclusive screenings and events • Speaker series • Volunteer activities • Bonus eligible

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