Software Engineering Technical Lead jobs at Samsung in United States, Los Angeles

Role and Responsibilities

Main Responsibilities

• Perform as a technical mentor and individual contributor of a small, distributed team of software engineers in an ever-changing corporate environment.
• Implement back-end service components, tasks, and architecture to support TV Plus server-side ad insertion, linearization, ad markers, session management, etc.
• Work in an agile, task-based environment (I hope you like Jira!) to conduct engineering activities, projects, research, and/or operational tests in conformance to functional specifications, design requirements, operational capacities, and customer performance expectations.
• Debug production issues raised by customers and customer support teams, isolate the cause, and work towards a fix.
• Participate in meetings with other engineering staff and stakeholders to work towards ideal solutions, and develop a deep understanding of requirements to help break them down into engineering tasks.
• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

The Stack

• Strong proficiency in Golang and/or Python for back-end development; some occasional front end work may be required, primarily in Node.js.
• DevOps/infrastructureexperience with deployment via Git, Github Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, and other AWS infrastructure is a strong plus.
• DB management through Mongo.
• Primarily OSX/Mac development machines, with Unix-based (Linux) deployment
• Monitoring using CloudWatch, DataDog
• Usage of various AWS Elemental products (MediaConnect, MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaTailor)

Skills and Qualifications

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience in a large-scale production environment
• Bachelors/Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related STEM field
• Experience working in HLS streaming or with video tools is a plus.
• Positive attitude, highly flexible, and self-motivated
• Able to communicate complex technical matters to an audience of equal or higher technical competency.
• Strong understanding of security compliance
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to debug unfamiliar distributed architectures and isolate problems
• Ability to deliver and accept feedback on code and design
• Experience in writing unit and integration tests.
• Experience in continuousintegration/deploymentpreferred
• Highly detail-oriented with strong analytical skills
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with partners in different cultures and geographies
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
• Highly detail-oriented with strong analytical skills
• Normally receives general instructions on routine work with detailed instructions on new projects or assignments

Position Requirements

• Flexibility to travel to meet with internal teams
• Minimum 3 day/week in-office
• Rotational on-call for team’s supported services