Senior Staff Software Engineer - Python, DJango, Celery, Redis - Sirius XM

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 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:

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Advertising Tools team at SiriusXM, you’ll have the opportunity to help build critical components at the foundation of our $1B+ advertising business.  You will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders across product and engineering to design and implement new advertising products and features that support a rapidly growing list of publisher partners while we continue to aggressively expand the platform for our 200M+ users.

You’ll work closely with internal stakeholders to refine requirements, build, and ultimately own the eventual, well-designed solution.  Engineers on our team write maintainable, self-documenting code, perform code reviews, and participate in design discussions.  We think you’ll be excited about this opportunity because you get to identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity and best practices. 

What you’ll do: 

• Refine business requirements
• Build and ultimately own the eventual, well-designed solution
• Write maintainable, self-documenting code
• Perform code reviews
• Participate in design discussions
• Author and provide feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses
• Exhibit accountability at both a personal and team level
• Participate in maintenance and on-call rotation
• Mentor senior and junior engineers

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, or equivalent and related experience in lieu of degree.
• 8+ years professional experience in a software development role.
• Experience developing APIs using Python, Django, Django-REST, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, and/or GraphQL.

Requirements and General Skills:

• Flexible to work across different time zones.
• Collaborative and communicative.
• Bring thoughtful perspective, empathy, creativity, and a positive attitude to tackle problems at scale.
• Persistent sense of curiosity to understand why something is and needs to be.
• Accountability and a sense of extreme ownership that doesn’t end after the system is deployed to production.
• Pragmatic approach to weighing engineering tradeoffs versus business needs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Technical Skills:

• Designed and built robust and flexible APIs that interact with multiple systems. 
• Understand a wide range of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful web APIs in an enterprise setting.
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, including the use of source control, CI/CD and various testing approaches.
• Experience in building highly scalable and highly performant microservices.
• Experience with AWS in a production setting, preferably having leveraged offerings for compute, databases, storage, containers and serverless technologies will be a plus point.
• Experience with asynchronous programming models

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 $138,000 to $230,000 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.