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Company Summary

EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.

Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.

Department Summary

Our DISH Technology team challenges the status quo and reimagines capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview, which may include a live whiteboarding or technical assessment session.

DISH is seeking a Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for a business-critical streaming middleware platform currently built on Ruby on Rails and undergoing a strategic re-architecture to Golang-based services. This hands-on role will lead the Golang re-architecture to improve scalability, performance, resiliency, and maintainability, while shaping platform-level technical direction.

The Staff Engineer will mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural discussions, communicate design decisions clearly to both technical and executive stakeholders, and deliver high-quality, production-ready solutions in close collaboration with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of hands-on API development experience, a strong commitment to code quality and engineering excellence, and practical experience re-architecting or modernizing backend services. You stay current with industry trends, thoughtfully adopt new tools and best practices, and thrive in a collaborative, high-ownership engineering culture. If you are excited to drive innovation in streaming technology while helping grow engineering talent, we encourage you to apply.

Key Responsibilities:

+ Own and evolve a high-traffic, API-only platform that powers large-scale streaming client applications and processes high-volume, heterogeneous data streams

+ Lead the re-architecture from Ruby on Rails to Golang, defining service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, and migration strategy

+ Design and implement performance-critical backend services in Go, emphasizing scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence

+ Translate complex ingestion and integration requirements into clean, maintainable, and well-documented services

+ Collaborate closely with product, architecture, SRE, and executive stakeholders to align on technical direction and delivery milestones

+ Champion engineering best practices, documentation, and knowledge sharing across the organization

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Education and Experience:

+ Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

+ 5+ years of professional backend/API development experience, with ownership of production systems

Skills and Qualifications:

+ Strong proficiency in Golang, or deep expertise in Java with a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly into Golang and Ruby

+ Experience building and operating REST and/or gRPC APIs at scale

+ Strong understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization

+ Experience modernizing or re-architecting legacy or monolithic systems into scalable, maintainable architectures

+ Hands-on experience with NoSQL data stores (e.g., MongoDB, Elasticsearch, AWS Keyspaces, DynamoDB)

+ Experience with in-memory caching systems (e.g., Redis, Memcached)

+ Proven experience delivering cloud-native systems on AWS or equivalent platforms

+ Experience working with event-driven or streaming platforms (Kafka, Confluent, etc.)

+ Hands-on experience migrating production systems across primary backend programming language transitions

+ Deep experience designing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures on AWS

+ Familiarity with observability platforms (Dynatrace, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, etc.)

+ Strong grounding in object-oriented and domain-driven design, applied pragmatically to legacy modernization

+ Hands-on experience leveraging AI developer tools (e.g., Amazon Q or equivalent) to accelerate development and debugging

+ Experience integrating LLMs into backend services via REST or gRPC

+ Experience designing or integrating MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to securely expose internal APIs, data, and tools to LLM- or agent-based systems

Visa sponsorship not available for this role

Salary Ranges

Compensation: $110,100.00/Year - $157,300.00/Year

Benefits

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits .

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location.

Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. EchoStar will accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employees if such accommodations are not undue hardships and are otherwise within the bounds of applicable law. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. You may redact any information that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of school/graduation from your application documents before submission and throughout our application process.

EchoStar will provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so poses an undue hardship on the Company, poses a direct threat of substantial harm to others, or is otherwise not required by law. EchoStar has a more detailed Accommodation Policy that applies to employees. EchoStar endeavors to make echostar.com and jobs.echostar.com accessible to users. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to discuss the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process. This contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications.

Click the links to access the following statements: EEO Policy Statement (https://www.echostar.com/content/dam/echostar/files/EEO%20Policy%20Statement.pdf) , Pay Transparency (https://www.echostar.com/content/dam/echostar/files/Pay%20Transparency%20Nondescrimination%20Provision.pdf) , EEOC Know Your Rights (English (https://www.echostar.com/content/dam/echostar/files/EEOC%20Know%20Your%20Rights.pdf) /Spanish (https://www.echostar.com/content/dam/echostar/files/EEOC%20Know%20Your%20Rights%20%28Spanish%29.pdf) )

We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. U.S. Citizenship is required for certain positions. EEO is the law.

At EchoStar, you have the right to request reasonable accommodations. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact [email protected]. This contact information is for accommodation requests only; you may not use this contact information to inquire about the status of an application.