The Media Technology team at Major League Baseball is looking for experienced Software Engineers that are passionate about technology, sports, and delivering solutions. The team designs, builds, and operates streaming media workflows across a variety of products and delivers content around the globe.
This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with other world-class engineers, product developers, and designers. You will contribute to Emmy award-winning systems and influence the innovation of products used by millions; support all 30 MLB clubs and work in a highly collaborative, results-oriented, team environment.
Using cutting edge technology, our software is used by fans, broadcasters,operation centers, ballparks, MLB Clubs and the League itself. We are looking for Software Engineers that are passionate about building new technologies for baseball and the entire sports industry.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5 or more years experience in industry software development
- Proven track record of designing and implementing high availability distributed systems
- Experience building streaming media workflows for live/VOD content
- Working knowledge of OTT technologies/specifications and streaming/broadcast media codecs, containers and standards
- Exposure to Event Driven systems, patterns, and best practices
- Experience working with containerized cloud platforms (Docker/Kubernetes and GCP/AWS) and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
Responsibilities
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing and maintenance)
- Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to drive technical excellence and product development
- Take ownership of streaming products and develop tools to continuously improve stream quality/delivery
- Write clean, concise, modular code that is easily testable and scalable
- Mentor early career team members
Why MLB?
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the Major Leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.
MLB’s vision is to be the global sport of choice for youth to play, fans of all backgrounds to enjoy and a desired destination for employment. With a belief that the journey to growth and greatness is ongoing, MLB gives employees the opportunity to continue learning and honing their skills with programs such as: tuition reimbursement; mentorship programs; lunch and learns; online course subscriptions; paid industry certifications; business resource groups; and more.
MLB provides its employees with exceptional medical, dental, and vision coverage. Premiums are 100% employer covered to help employees focus on being their best!
Major League Baseball is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Are you ready to Step Up to the Plate? Apply below!
Per the NYC pay transparency law, the hiring range for this position is $135,000 to $175,000.
As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills and any other factors Major League Baseball (MLB) considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees. MLB offers employees a full range of best in class benefits with no employee contributions towards medical, dental, and vision coverage premiums, as well as incentive and recognition programs, life insurance and automatic employer 401k contributions. All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and the terms of official plan documents which may be modified or amended from time to time.
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