Software Development Engineer II

Key responsibilities

• ● Own scale-critical paths, ensuring the system can handle peak concurrency, multi-region delivery, and freshness guarantees. ● Build the infrastructure & capabilities that serves as the orchestration layer between downstream services and client apps — enabling faster experimentation, seamless rollouts, that works for every device & platform out there. ● Develop the Compositor Engine that fetches and ranks content blocks (widgets/cards), merges metadata, and serves highly contextualized page definitions to clients in milliseconds. ● Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Frontend teams on use cases like personalized feeds, layouts, and dynamic page composition. ● Improve latency, throughput, and observability across all surfaces where UI is driven from the server — including Homepage, Watch pages, and Detail views. ● Contribute to platform primitives that are used by every other team — including layout DSLs, contract validation, fallback mechanisms, and preview tooling. ● Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and on-call rotations, maintaining high service reliability even during peak traffic.
• ● Continuously evaluate relevant technologies and influence architecture and design discussions ● Guides and mentors juniors on functional attributes and domain knowledge
• Skills and attributes for success: ● Strong coding skills (Golang) ● Experience building or working with architectures for server driven & guided frameworks and Orchestrator platforms ● Strong understanding of database and storage fundamentals ● Performance tuning skills — optimizing for low p90 latency, high cache hit ratios, and multi-region delivery. ● Experience with AWS stack
• Preferred education and experience:
• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 2-4 years of experience in backend development.