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Who We Are

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora , SXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners -- in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.

This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM’s vision to life every day.

SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM’s platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Stitcher, Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company’s advertising sales organization, which operates as SXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.

How You’ll Make An Impact

SiriusXM is rapidly enhancing its digital footprint to drive further engagement of consumers via smartphones, tablets, PCs, and connected devices, while continuing to maintain and grow its adoption in connected cars. This position has the exciting opportunity to be a key contributor at the starting phase of enterprise wide software engineering replatforming; specifically identity, commerce, SDK, and cloud native environment design. This is a senior engineer responsible for understanding and supporting our digital (non-automotive) client applications and their interactions with services architecture and functionality as well as executing operational support across our digital application ecosystem for SiriusXM, Pandora, & Stitcher. This individual will have the opportunity to work across the Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations teams to harmonize our efforts toward shared company goals. The Staff Software Engineer will be part of a team of operations site reliability engineers on their journey through the technological enabled transformation of our core business.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a valued stakeholder for the introduction of new features within our digital client application ecosystem in collaboration with engineering leadership through design and development of our new platform
• Define, build, and advance mature tooling for:
• Data orchestration and security
• Observability of platform health
• Support of end-to-end application performance health, productivity and effectiveness
• New feature integration support
• Manage application and systems configurations across key components within our services environment
• Collaborate with Data Engineering on enhanced understanding of metrics and insights
• Coordinate with Product and Engineering on client experimentation programs as well as formulation and release of major features and functionality
• Provide Tier 2+/advanced application troubleshooting and support with emphasis on identity, commerce, and data services domains
• Drive the formulation of SLIs, SLAs, and SLOs for new application systems
• Work within industry leading observability tooling such as Datadog, Sentry.io, and Conviva
• Help lead the efforts to understand system interactions for key user journeys for expert debugging and diagnosis
• Serve as key member of post-incident review and analysis
• Drive a culture of innovation and be an agent of change
• Cultivate a culture that rewards aggressive pursuit of innovative solutions to problems
• Be responsive to the business in proposing and developing new products and services
• Identify opportunities to create new products and services that meet current and prospective market opportunities
  

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Management or similar field, or equivalent experience, in lieu of degree
• 10+ years of industry experience in software development

• Deep understanding and proficiency with:
• Nodejs, JS, Typescript
• AWS system architecture and components like EC2, S3, Cloudwatch, Secrets Manager
• CDK or similar
• Unit testing frameworks and methodologies
• REST APIs, API performance testing, API development
• Lead or contribute to investigations and discussions with other developers, product management, designers, data scientists as a representative of the Operations team
• Excellent interpersonal skills; effectively communicate and collaborate with multiple levels of Product, Data, and Engineering teams
• Strong understanding of engineering software processes, lifecycle methodology, configuration management, release management, and system verification and testing
• Experience and proven track record of maintaining software at scale to millions of active users
• Write clear and concise documentation for your code
• Willingness and ability to take initiative and follow through on projects
• API development and testing with Postman / Newman
• Mentoring and training new team members or more junior engineers
• CI/CD, build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins, Github actions, Terraform
• Building and distributing command line tools via Bash or similar
• Agile/Scrum methodologies, Jira, Wiki
• Writing / maintaining sequence diagrams
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.
  

At SiriusXM, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your background and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We expect the base salary for this position to be in the range of $101,000 to $200,000 and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.

Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.

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