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Job Posting Title: Senior Data Engineer

Department: CBS Digital Media

About Us:

Truly premium content. At true scale. Only CBS Digital.

CBS Digital is the premier online content network for information and online operations of CBS Corporation as well as some of the top native digital brands in the entertainment industry. Our brands dive deep into the things people care about across sports, entertainment, technology, news, games, and business. With over 1 billion users visiting our properties every quarter, we are a global top 10 web property and one of the largest premium content networks online.

Description:

CBSSports.com provides premium online and mobile content to the connected sports fan, including live and on-demand video, in-depth analysis, breaking news, and scores and statistics across high school, college, and professional sports. CBSSports.com is part of CBS Interactive's portfolio of multi-platform brands, which includes premier Fantasy offerings, high school sports leader MaxPreps, 247Sports, Scout and CBS Sports producing more than 130 official collegiate athletic sites.

Role Details:

We are looking for a talented senior data engineer specializing in building a highly scalable, cloud-based GraphQL API layer to deliver sports and betting data across multiple digital platforms. This role involves creating a seamless and efficient data ingestion, processing, and delivery system, integrating streaming data and high-performance querying. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to design and implement a federated GraphQL architecture, driving the future of sports and betting data integration within the CBS Sports digital ecosystem.

Your Day-to-Day:

Build new foundational capabilities using domain-driven design and test-driven development that will power features and experiences on various CBS Sports properties

Help lead team members in the design, development, and optimization of our core sports GraphQL subgraphs and services within a federated architecture

Participate in scrum ceremonies: daily stand-ups, grooming, and sprint planning

Practice DevOps, writing good tests, and deploying continuously to production with observability and monitoring

Review your teammates' designs and code, providing constructive feedback, and engaging in technical discussions, including weekly deep dive sessions on various topics

Work with product partners to develop technical solutions for features, leveraging GraphQL for data integration

Key Projects:

Building out a GraphQL API for seamless data access and integration across multiple services

Designing and building out a core data layer to power all CBS Sports Digital products; ingesting, processing, and storing data from hundreds of sources over different transports and data stores

Defining a distributed tracing system for web services and data observability within a GraphQL ecosystem

Containerizing core systems to reduce the overhead of infrastructure management

Qualifications:

What you bring to the team:

You have

5+ years of experience in data engineering and data system development

Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining GraphQL schemas, optimizing query performance, and ensuring seamless data retrieval and manipulation for enhanced user experiences

Experience with Javascript/TypeScript, Python, Node.js

Experience with relational, NoSQL, and key/value data stores such as Aurora MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis

Hands-on experience working in a distributed cloud-based environment (AWS preferred) with high transaction volumes using a variety of connected services

Proficiency with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing and automated integration tests, GitHub, issue tracking tools (Jira), and CI/CD related disciplines (GitOps)

Ability to design solutions, provide estimates, and evaluate risk and technical feasibility

BS Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical degree, or equivalent professional experience

You might also have

Wundergraph Cosmo or Apollo GraphQL experience

AWS Certifications

Experience with extract, transform, load (ETL) pipelines using data orchestration platforms, cloud services, and frameworks a plus

Experience at an online company in digital media or content creation

Excellent team player and communicator capable of creating positive relationships across engineering, product and architecture

Energetic self-starter who can work in a complex collaborative environment that rewards innovation, initiative, curiosity and mentoring

Knowledge of sports and gaming

CBS Sports, a year-round leader in cross-platform sports coverage, broadcasts a portfolio of events on the CBS Television Network, including THE NFL ON CBS; college football, including the Big Ten ON CBS; college basketball, including the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship; golf, including The Masters, PGA Championship and PGA TOUR; soccer, including the UEFA Champions League and NWSL; and CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR.

In addition, the division includes CBS SPORTS NETWORK, the 24-hour cable home of CBS Sports which televises live sports programming throughout the year, including college football and basketball games, UEFA Champions League and Europa League action, Italy's Serie A matches, Concacaf national team competitions, as well as a full slate of original programming and studio coverage.

CBS Sports also delivers an extensive lineup of global soccer coverage on Paramount+, including every UEFA club competition match, all Serie A matches as well as Concacaf national team competitions, and produces INSIDE THE NFL for Paramount+. CBS Sports Digital's multi-platform offerings include CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports apps for mobile and connected TV devices; the 24/7 streaming sports news network CBS Sports HQ; 247Sports; MaxPreps; CBS Sports fantasy games; and SportsLine.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $110,000.00 - 147,000.00.

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement.This position is bonus eligible.

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