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About Us:
The Applied Machine Learning Group within Paramount Global Streaming’s Advanced Technologies division focuses on deploying machine learning techniques to improve products.

Role Details:
As a Senior Software Engineer - Content Platform on the Applied Machine Learning Group, you’ll play a key role in the design and development of server-side applications, pipelines and APIs for AI/ML products that support brands across Paramount Global. Location is open for remote work.

Your Day-to-Day:
Design new feature solutions, producing the relevant technical documentation for review by product and engineering team members
Implement designs and collaborate with backend and frontend engineers to produce outstanding technical results
Participate in design and code reviews
Take initiative to review existing code, understand its function, and suggest optimizations with a goal towards efficiency, reliability and performance
Triage and fix reported bugs as well as issues related to performance
Communicate estimates, schedules, issues and dependencies to technical or project lead
Communicate often with other remote colleagues on our distributed team. Raise issues and blockers and follow through as needed
Bring new ideas about technology to engineering team and product manager
Become an expert on core backend systems
Participate in scheduled production releases

Key Projects:
Design, implement and support ingestion pipelines providing source data critical to our ML models
Originate new feature solutions for our transactional web application backend including data model and API endpoints
Orchestrate downstream data source availability for use by our ML models and reporting

Qualifications:
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Detailed understanding of database concepts and prior experience with data modeling
Expertise working on transactional web applications, identifying workflow use cases, and designing the appropriate solutions
Production quality API development experience
Experience producing technical design artifacts that are detailed and thought out, taking account of system interdependencies
Solid foundation and programming experience in Python, Django and SQL
Experience building ingestion pipelines from external data sources
Experience deploying to Cloud production environments
Practiced in writing unit tests
Excellent problem solving, collaboration and interpersonal skills, both verbal and written
Nice to have –
Experience with ElasticSearch
Experience with Kubernetes
Familiarity with Argo Workflows
Experience using project management tools like those from Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence)
Experience with version control systems (Git and Bitbucket)
Experience using Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Storage and APIs)

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