SiriusXM · 12 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$102K/yr - $154K/yr
7+ years expSiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to be part of the team reinventing the platform and infrastructure for their audio services. The role involves designing, rolling out, and supporting a highly performant search platform while collaborating with various teams to innovate and develop scalable solutions.
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Responsibilities
Work with a highly collaborative group of engineers
Collaborate with Science/ML team, Data Engineers, Data Analytics teams to stay on top of Search roadmap and deliverables
Innovate to build performant solutions that continue to scale to the increasing demands of the business. Turning solutions into architecture diagrams and tech briefs when necessary
Contribute to a healthy engineering culture and drive best practices
Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions
Strive to develop simple solutions to complex problems
Ensure team-wide code quality through code reviews and PR feedback
Exhibit accountability at both a personal and team level
Author and provide feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses
Help research and recommend new technologies to solve strategic issues
Qualification
Required
Minimum of seven years professional experience
Expertise in Scala and functional programming paradigms
Strong understanding of search engine algorithms and ranking factors ex Lexical Search, Semantic Search
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify SEO issues and provide effective solutions
Search Engine experience such as ElasticSearch, Open Search, Solr
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
Deep distributed systems knowledge, having supported multiple high-throughput systems in a production setting
Experience with AWS in a production setting, preferably having leveraged offerings for compute, databases, storage, containers and serverless technologies
Experience with asynchronous programming models, ideally those that support high-throughput systems running on the JVM in a production setting
Pragmatic approach to weighing engineering tradeoffs versus business needs
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
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Must have legal right to work in the U.S
Benefits
Discretionary short-term and long-term incentives
Company
SiriusXM
SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SiriusXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connect) 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.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.98BKey Investors
JP Morgan ChaseBerkshire HathawayLiberty Media
2025-08-20Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2025-07-04Post Ipo Equity· $459M
2009-02-01Post Ipo Debt· $525.75M
Leadership Team
Jennifer Witz
Chief Executive Officer
Wayne Thorsen
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
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