Golang Engineer - Samsung TV Plus Job at Samsung Electronics America, Los Angeles, CA

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  • Samsung Electronics America
  • Los Angeles, CA

Job Description

Samsung Electronics America’s North American Service Business is tasked with building consumer services at a global scale. Driving growth in ad based services, and streaming compelling media to all Samsung screens (TVs, phones, tablets, web, etc. ). This backend engineer will be architecting, coding, and deploying modules to our existing AWS backend for TV Plus. They will also provide technical mentorship and leadership to a backend team and help architect solutions for upcoming media streaming projects. The right candidate will have a high degree of technical proficiency and the patience and willingness to share it with others.

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

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 continuous integration/deployment preferred
  • 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

Job Tags

Temporary work, Flexible hours, 3 days per week,

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