Senior Software Engineer

We have a variety of specializations and collaborate closely, enhancing our platform and adding to the suite of machine learning features running on it.

• Machine learning engineers (MLEs) build models and features
• Data engineers fulfill the availability and latency requirements provided by MLEs
• Some software engineers partner with MLEs to operationalize and expose models and features
• Other software engineers focus on our ML platform and tooling, including A/B testing

Here are some of the key challenges the team will tackle in next couple of quarters:

• Content Summaries: Support testing and adoption of various types of content summaries from multiple domains, which can be leveraged in consumer experiences along with embedding generation and classification
• Two-Tower Experimentation: Explore options for incorporating additional user context in our personalized recommendations model such as geolocation, time of day and time of year
• All Access Search: Partner with teams across CNN to design and build a roadmap for CNN streaming content search
• Bandit Foundation: Enhance data access and begin experimenting with bandits for online ranking of recommendations
• Optimize Site Performance: Dynamically deliver personalized content alongside cached assets, improving load times and enhancing user experience with features like page-level deduplication, * As a Software Engineer II, you will have many opportunities to collaborate with other engineers across the team
• Promote an inclusive and supportive engineering culture on the team
• Solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions
• Strive for operational excellence--building highly available, low latency, and efficient software with support from other engineers
• Build subject matter expertise related to multiple production systems
• Communicate effectively-through progress updates, timely requests for support, demos, and technical documentation
• Author, test, review, and optimize production-quality code, following best practices for IaC, version control, and continuous delivery with support from other engineers
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of responsibility for the code you and your team write, delivering high-quality results that improve with each iteration
• Embrace failure as a learning opportunity-use research and experimentation to choose the best solutions that meet business goals, moving autonomously from proof-of-concept to production release

• Related professional or industry experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field
• Proficiency in Python and one or more of: Golang, Java, C++, or similar object- oriented languages

The Nice to Haves

• Expertise in backend engineering with distributed systems and data-intensive applications at web scale
• Prior experience working on a machine learning team

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