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Sinclair Inc. · 2 months ago

Software Development Engineer – Backend / Platform

140 4th Ave. North, Seattle, WA, 98109, US

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$155K/yr - $180K/yr

5+ years exp

Sinclair Inc. is a diversified media company and a leading provider of local news and sports. They are seeking a Software Development Engineer – Backend / Platform to design, build, and operate backend services that power live streaming, content management, and data flows, while collaborating with various teams in a high-velocity environment.

Broadcast Media

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and implement backend services (microservices, REST / GraphQL APIs, event-driven systems) to power core features: content ingestion, metadata, user profiles, personalization, video metadata, recommendations, etc

Build scalable, highly available systems that handle high throughput and low latency requirements (e.g. for live events, real-time analytics)

Work with media / video teams to integrate backend systems for streaming, transcoding, content delivery (CDN), metadata synchronization, DRM, ad insertion

Define data models, database schemas, and caching strategies to support queries at scale

Instrument services with monitoring, metrics, tracing, alerting, and health checks; own reliability and observability for your services

Collaborate with mobile / front-end / hybrid app engineers to define API contracts, error modes, versioning, and graceful degradation

Participate in system design, architectural decisions, and trade-off discussions

Improve developer productivity via tooling, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, build pipelines, and shared libraries

Diagnose and resolve production issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive improvements in performance, resilience, security, and cost optimization

Stay current with state-of-the-art backend technologies, cloud architectures, distributed systems, database systems, caching, streaming, and big data pipelines

Qualification

Backend languagesAPI developmentDatabase experienceCloud infrastructureMicroservices architectureCaching strategiesCI/CD pipelinesPerformance optimizationDebugging skillsCollaboration skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

5+ years of professional backend / full-stack engineering experience (not internships)

Strong experience in one or more backend languages (e.g. Java, Kotlin, Go, Scala, Python, Node.js)

Solid understanding of building HTTP / gRPC / WebSocket APIs, API versioning, error handling, and pagination

Experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis) along with schema design, indexing, queries, and query optimization

Familiarity with caching layers (Redis, Memcached), message queues / streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kinesis), and event-driven systems

Experience with metrics, logging, tracing (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)

Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (unit, integration, contract tests), deployment strategies, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills

Excellent collaboration skills — you'll be working across domains (mobile, video, data) in a small, cross-functional team

Preferred

Experience with media streaming back ends (e.g. video metadata, packaging, CDN integration, manifest generation, DRM, ad insertion)

Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), serverless patterns, microservices and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Experience with large-scale data pipelines, ETL, analytics, recommendation systems, or ML infrastructure

Knowledge of concurrency, distributed systems, consistency models, partitioning, and fault tolerance

Experience with multi-tenant systems, rate limiting, throttling, feature flags, and AB testing frameworks

Understanding of security and compliance aspects (authentication, authorization, encryption, data privacy)

Experience in media, OTT, broadcasting, or entertainment domain

Passion for high-quality, maintainable, testable code and building scalable platforms

Benefits

Participation in a retirement plan

Life and disability insurance

Health, dental and vision plans

Flexible spending accounts

Sick leave

Vacation time

Personal time

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Company

Sinclair Inc.

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Sinclair, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) is a diversified media company and a leading provider of local news and sports.

Founded in 1986

Cockeysville, Maryland, US

5001-10000 employees

http://sbgi.net/

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