The Streaming & Media team at Major League Baseball is looking for engineers to join our El Segundo, CA office. You will be part of the team responsible for engineering the next generation of platforms to enhance fan experiences and engagement on streaming media products. This includes live and on-demand video processing, live content insertions, and creating custom
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in leveraging technology to enhance the sports viewing experience. You will write and maintain clean, concise, modular code in an agile environment, participate in design, code reviews and act as a leading voice.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education And Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of software development experience, with a strong record of producing and supporting large-scale production systems
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for delivering high-quality solutions
- Proven track record of professional software development processes and tools, including Agile methodologies, IDEs, source control, CI/CD pipelines, and test frameworks
- Experience delivering software solutions using Core Java (or Kotlin), Spring, messaging and databases
- Experience with JavaScript(React/Node)
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud/AWS and cloud-native tooling such as Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and Terraform
- Expertise in distributed non-blocking systems (event driven architectures, virtual threads, etc..)
- Exposure to live/VOD streaming media
Essential Functions
- Actively participate in team ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, design/code reviews, postmortems)
- Design and decompose software systems; produce specifications for sub-systems, modules and APIs
- Produce efficient, high-quality and testable implementations
- Participate in a on-call rotation to support time sensitive and demanding software platforms
- Stay abreast of current tools and technologies
- 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 California pay transparency law, the hiring range for this position is $140,000 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.
If you are interested in joining our team and require a reasonable accommodation to assist with any part of the application and/or interview process, please contact us by email at: accommodations@mlb.com
