Software Engineer - Platform
Description For Software Engineer - Platform
Nielsen, a tech company with a century-long legacy, is seeking a Software Engineer - Platform to join their Media Platform team in Gurgaon, India. This role is crucial in driving content ratings across various viewing platforms, including local and national TV, streaming, and digital advertising.
As a Software Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of developing and enriching Nielsen's central platform, which manages compute, storage, the Media Data Lake (multi PB), ingestion pipeline, orchestration, and data science tooling. You'll work extensively with open source software and cloud technologies, striking a balance between precision and innovation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing the platform using open source and cloud-native software
- Diving deep into open source projects to enhance scalability, reliability, and security
- Utilizing Kubernetes for efficient resource management and deployment
- Implementing DevOps practices for high-quality, frequently updated code
The ideal candidate has:
- 3+ years of software development experience
- Strong knowledge of Java, Python, or JavaScript
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals
- Familiarity with big data systems, orchestration tools, and containerization
At Nielsen, you'll join a dynamic team committed to powering a better media future. The company values perseverance, excellence, and the ambition to make an impact. If you're passionate about coding, love learning new technologies, and enjoy optimizing systems for peak performance, this role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to innovative solutions in media measurement and analytics.
Join Nielsen to be part of a team that's shaping the future of media technology and driving decisions that deliver extraordinary results for clients worldwide.
Responsibilities For Software Engineer - Platform
- Develop and enrich our platform by leveraging open source and cloud-native software
- Learn the internals of open source projects and fork/augment them to better fit our scalability, reliability, functional, and security needs
- Leverage kubernetes to drive resource efficiency, auto scaling, standardized deployment, and consistency of monitoring
- Employ proper DevOps practices with a genuine concern for code quality assessment, implicit/automated testing, and frequent, no-downtime deployment
Requirements For Software Engineer - Platform
- 3+ years of software development
- Masters degree, bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Intensive knowledge in either Java, Python, or Javascript
- Computer science fundamentals - algorithms and data structures
- Knowledge of big data systems (e.g. Spark, Presto, HDFS), orchestration (e.g. Airflow), containerization (e.g. docker, kubernetes), databases/SQL
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