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# Lead Software Engineer

- **Company:** Discovery Inc.
- **Location:** Berkeley, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C Sharp (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Ruby, Selenium, Graphql
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_9729ce632ef3218213a67986a5413fde

## About the Role

* Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a full-time project
 * A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
 * Prior experience working on-site in Berkeley, CA, or willingness to relocate
 * Lead-caliber judgment about when to elevate and when to absorb

## Description

* Keep the Selenium build pipeline green so Berkeley deploys never wait on a red light
 * Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Work-Life Balance and C#
 * Defend Discovery uptime through the 2 a.m. Berkeley pages nobody volunteers for
 * Lead technical design reviews for lead technology initiatives
 * Catch the detail-loving Persuasion regression in staging before it ever reaches Berkeley customers
 * Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
 * Keep Discovery's GraphQL dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
 * Keep Ruby schemas backward-compatible so Discovery never forces a breaking upgrade