Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Whip Media is transforming how the world’s largest media and entertainment companies manage, distribute, and monetize content across the global streaming supply chain. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Helix Platform team, you will build and operate foundational services and tooling, focusing on performance, reliability, and developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate core Helix services and shared platform capabilities (tenant foundations, auth patterns, metadata and records patterns, eventing patterns, shared libraries)
- Design and implement APIs using gRPC protobuf and REST
- Work in PostgreSQL every day, including schema design, migrations, JSONB modeling, and performance tuning
- Deploy and run services on AWS EKS, including ALB ingress, health checks, scaling, and production debugging
- Publish and consume events via Kafka and design event contracts that hold up over time
- Improve developer velocity by contributing to Helm templates, CI CD workflows, service scaffolding, and configuration standards (including secrets and environment management)
- Raise the bar on testing, code quality, observability, and operational hygiene
- Mentor other engineers and lead technical conversations that unblock teams
Skills
- Strong backend engineering experience and production ownership
- Experience building microservices and running them in production
- Go experience, or deep systems language experience and you can ramp to Go quickly
- API design experience, gRPC and protobuf experience is a strong plus
- Strong PostgreSQL fundamentals and real experience with migrations and performance tuning
- Kubernetes experience in production, EKS is a plus
- A practical quality mindset, you write tests and you care about operability
- Multi tenant SaaS experience and an opinion on tenant isolation and authorization boundaries
- Kafka experience (consumer groups, idempotency, event schemas)
- Envoy or gRPC Web experience
- Helm, GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS networking and ingress patterns
- Observability experience (structured logs, metrics, tracing, OpenTelemetry)
Benefits
- Competitive health plan so you can choose the right plan for you and your loved ones
- Wellbeing bundles to ensure your mental and physical health resources are at your fingertips
- Competitive Maternity/paternity leave
- Remote office stipend
- Flexible PTO
- Referral bonuses
- Access to FSA plans
- 401k retirement plan
- Monthly mobile reimbursement
- Eligible to participate in our robust medical, dental, vision, retirement, and other benefit plans
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