Sr. Software Development Engineer

The posting, as iSpot wrote it

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iSpot competes for the best talent. Our compensation packages consist of salary and equity in one of Seattle’s hottest start-ups, as well as other standard benefits. Most importantly, we provide a really interesting working experience, and the chance to contribute to the success of something great.

What You’ll Be Part Of

At iSpot.tv, we deal with BIG data, operating in a high-scale AWS environment with thousands of servers processing massive streams of media metadata. As a Senior SDE, you are a foundational pillar of our engineering team. You own entire domains, drive scalable solutions, and act as a "go-to" expert.

We are currently looking for an AI-native engineer – someone who views AI not as a novelty, but as a core component of their development lifecycle – to help lead our mission-critical data evolution and contribute to the vision of Creative Audience and Outcomes Pillar.

Responsibilities

• Technical Excellence & Domain Ownership
• Coding & Debugging: You will design domains with testability and multiple teams in mind, creating extensible and shareable codebases. You are expected to provide prescriptive code reviews that suggest more acceptable code patterns and contribute to company-wide style guidelines.
• Quality & Release: You will maintain a high standard of quality, setting the example for the team. This involves developing the architecture for our automation systems and expertly debugging complex issues within the CI/CD pipeline. You will be responsible for implementing secure deployment strategies, especially for large-scale, high-risk projects.
• AI-Driven Productivity & Innovation
• AI-First Mindset: You are expected to be "AI-native." You will actively explore and learn about AI technologies that enhance the efficiency of the entire team's work.
• Leading Adoption: You create space for teammates to improve their AI tooling through pairing, providing demos, and writing documentation.
• Creative Problem Solving: You are a pioneer in critical technologies, bringing creative solutions to complex, large-scale projects and ensuring your contributions can be extended far into the future.
• Operational Excellence & Data Strategy
• Data-Driven RCA: You will propose and implement viable domain measurement solutions. You'll play a lead role in researching external solutions and leading root cause analysis (RCA) for complex, multi-domain incidents. You will expertly handle on-call for the team’s services, write and update runbooks, and coach newer team members on investigating alerts and incidents.
• Data Pipeline Ownership: You will design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines – authoring and orchestrating Airflow DAGs, leveraging Snowflake for large-scale analytics workloads – ensuring data

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flow (DAG design and development), MySQL, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, RabbitMQ (or similar message broker), Spring Boot, CI/CD pipelines.

• AI Native: Experience using AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development (e.g., Kiro, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor, or similar, Claude Code).
• Soft Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences, from junior devs to senior leadership. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with CI/CD concepts (CircleCI).
• A track record of identifying trends in incidents and introducing broad solutions to address them.

Target cash compensation range: $140,183 - $179,436 USD Annually

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