Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Paramount is on a mission to unleash the power of content and is seeking a Software Engineer to build and scale systems that enhance content understanding and personalization. The role involves working with core infrastructure and internal tools to improve metadata ingestion, impacting user experience across Paramount's streaming services.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services that support content understanding, metadata modeling, and enrichment workflows
- Contribute to systems that process and manage metadata for a large-scale, global content catalog
- Maintain and expand the API layer and data models across two provider contexts (Paramount+ and PlutoTV) as the codebase converges toward a unified multi-tenant architecture
- Uphold engineering quality through test coverage, code reviews, and consistent application of coding standards
- Support editorial curation workflows that feed the personalization experience, ensuring curators have the tooling and data quality needed to make effective content decisions
Skills
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong proficiency in a Python web API and ORM framework (Django/ORM/DRF preferred)
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure including managed databases, object storage, and container orchestration (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- API design with backwards compatibility across multiple consumer teams
- Relational data modeling for transactional systems
- Experience building data engineering pipelines, including best practices like defensive coding at ingestion boundaries, instrumentation to surface anomalies early, and awareness of data drift so that quality issues are caught before they propagate downstream
- Django and Django REST Framework for production backend applications
- Google Cloud Platform: Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager, GKE
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub subscriber/publisher patterns
- Elasticsearch index management, full-text search, mapping updates
- Experience building content metadata management systems
- Exposure to personalization, recommendation systems, or ML-adjacent platforms
- Experience working in event-driven architectures, designing systems around async pipelines
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k) plan
- Life insurance coverage
- Disability benefits
- Tuition assistance program
- PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement
- Bonus eligible
- Generous paid time off
- An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramount’s most dynamic teams
- Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events
- Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace
Company Overview
Paramount is a leading media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. It was founded in 1914, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.paramount.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Paramount has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.