Engineer III, Software Process Engineering

Samsung Electronics • Los Angeles, CA

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is seeking an Engineer III, Software Process Engineering to provide technical leadership for upcoming media streaming projects. This role involves architecting, coding, and deploying modules to an existing AWS backend for TV Plus, and implementing backend service components to support server-side ad insertion, linearization, ad markers, and session management. The position operates in an agile, task-based environment, requiring engineering activities, projects, research, and operational tests in conformance to functional specifications, design requirements, operational capacities, and customer performance expectations. Responsibilities include debugging production issues, isolating causes, and working towards fixes. The role also involves participating in meetings with engineering staff and stakeholders to develop solutions and break down requirements into engineering tasks. The Engineer III will act as a technical mentor and individual contributor within a small, distributed team in a dynamic corporate environment, exercising judgment in selecting methods and evaluation criteria for achieving results.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Ten years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or another related occupation.
• Eight years of experience developing highly scaled production systems (thousands of concurrent requests), including the ability to troubleshoot and debug those systems.
• Five years of experience mentoring and training junior developers.
• Five years of experience implementing production systems in AWS infrastructure including EC2, EKS, or S3.
• Three years of experience programming with Golang including high competency in concurrency features including channels, atomic objects, and mutexes.
• Three years of experience completing comprehensive code reviews in Golang including high competency in concurrency features including channels, atomic objects, and mutexes.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to help architect solutions for upcoming media streaming projects.
• Architect, code, and deploy modules to existing AWS backend for TV Plus.
• Implement backend service components, tasks, and architecture to support TV Plus server-side ad insertion, linearization, ad markers, session management, etc.
• Conduct engineering activities, projects, research, and/or operational tests in conformance to functional specifications, design requirements, operational capacities, and customer performance expectations.
• Debug production issues raised by customers and customer support teams, isolate the cause, and work towards a fix.
• Participate in meetings with other engineering staff and stakeholders to work towards ideal solutions and develop a deep understanding of requirements to help break them down into engineering tasks.
• Perform as a technical mentor and individual contributor of a small, distributed team of software engineers in an ever-changing corporate environment.
• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior