Director, Software Engineering

at  Sirius XM

WHO WE ARE:

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.
This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM’s vision to life every day.
We are proud to be launching a new state-of-the-art technology facility in Dublin, Ireland. The Dublin-based team will play a critical role in our continued digital transformation and will function as a center of excellence for SiriusXM’s global Product and Technology organization.
SiriusXM’s new Dublin facility will comprise a workforce primarily focused on software development, automotive technology and engineering, AdTech, data science, and analytics. Talent based in the new technology hub will be charged with developing and implementing best-in-class standards for high-quality, scalable software deliveries for SiriusXM’s streaming and in-vehicle audio entertainment platforms.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT:

We are looking for a Director, Software Engineering to join the Content Services team within the Platform Services Engineering organization. The Content Services team is responsible for building high throughput, highly available services on SiriusXM’s service platform that are critical to the user experience. This service platform will power multiple SiriusXM consumer products that reach millions of users (Pandora, Stitcher, SXM Media, SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services).
In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of the team that’s reinventing the platform and infrastructure that millions of SiriusXM/Pandora subscribers use to display visual recommendations for relevant and personalized content - thinking about everything from the experience to the system architecture supporting it. You will be involved in the design, rollout, and support of a highly performant, highly scalable and highly available personalization platform with your team. Personalization is a complex, cutting edge problem space and you will help your senior team navigate uncertainty and make effective implementation tradeoff decisions, relying on careful reasoning and decision making around a significant infrastructure budget.

• This role will manage a geographically dispersed team.
• Lead a group of highly collaborative engineers.
• Work closely with Science/ML team, Data Engineers, Data Analytics teams to stay on top of Personalization roadmap and deliverables.
• Innovate to build performant solutions that continue to scale to the increasing business demands. Turning solutions into architecture diagrams and tech briefs when necessary.
• Contribute to a healthy engineering culture and drive best practices.
• Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions.
• Strive to develop simple solutions to complex problems.
• Ensure team-wide code quality through code reviews and PR feedback.
• Exhibit accountability at both a personal and team level.
• Author and provide feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses.
• Help research and recommend new technologies to solve strategic issues.