SiriusXM

Senior Principal Software Architect

SiriusXM
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Bucharest, RomaniaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and build high-performance, stable, scalable AdsWizz systems for enterprise deployment.
  • Define and execute technology roadmaps for Simplecast, podcast monetization, and ad and podcast delivery services.
  • Adopt IAB standards, openRTB, VAST, and modern advertising protocols into AdsWizz services.
  • Lead the evolution of audio and video transcoding features using modern codecs and media formats.
  • Develop and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks and lead architecture planning discussions.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership, product, engineering, cloud operations, and incident management teams.
  • Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, and foster a collaborative development environment.
  • Identify and debug performance bottlenecks and contribute to project execution and organizational growth.
  • Participate in interviewing and recruiting activities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a similar field.
  • 15+ years of software engineering experience in Java and 7+ years of experience building microservices and scalable products.
  • Expertise in digital ad serving, including forecasting, pacing models, real-time bidding, openRTB, and related data models.
  • Experience with podcast delivery, HLS, media containers, audio/video codecs, transcoding, and streaming technologies.
  • Strong experience with REST API-based microservices, Spring Boot or Dropwizard, Hibernate, high availability, fault tolerance, circuit breakers, API versioning, and backward compatibility.
  • Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, relational and NoSQL databases, caching, messaging, containers, security standards, testing, and observability tools.
  • Knowledge of software lifecycle, configuration management, release management, system verification, architecture documentation, and performance optimization.
  • Ability to independently oversee major projects, make design tradeoffs, communicate with senior leadership, research new technologies, and collaborate across time zones.
  • Preferred experience with Wowza, Icecast, Shoutcast, Python, and Go.

Benefits

  • Casual and friendly working environment with opportunities to influence the company.
  • Corporate annual bonus system.
  • Individual training budget.
  • Sports bonus, meal ticket card, gift cards, birthday and special-event days off.
  • Private medical subscription and private pension fund.
  • Free library subscription and suitable hardware devices.
  • Parking at the office location with 60% company co-funding.
  • Company offsites, CSR activities, and getaways.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSCucumberDockerGoGrafanaJavaKubernetesMariaDBMongoDBMySQLPrometheusPythonRedisSpring Boot

Categories

SiriusXM

About SiriusXM

5,001-10,000 employees

SiriusXM provides satellite and streaming audio for listeners, including music, sports, news, talk, and podcasts. It sells subscriptions for in-car and mobile listening and operates ad-supported services through Pandora and the SiriusXM Media advertising platform; related brands include AdsWizz and Simplecast. The company is headquartered in New York and trades on Nasdaq as SIRI, with distribution built into many new vehicles via its SiriusXM Connect technology.

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