Senior Software Engineer

Overview

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Enablement
LOCATION: London Broadcasting House - Hybrid 1 day a week in London Broadcasting House
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £63,000 - £73,000 + London Weighting £5,319 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Purpose of the role

Join the BBC team responsible for the routing and resiliency layer serving most of our global Web and Apps products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and operating a high-performance cluster of Elixir applications. Your work will directly impact millions of users worldwide, ensuring our key services are fast, reliable, and always available.

You'd join a collaborative team of expert Elixir engineers dedicated to performance and resilience. You will work on highly impactful solutions, leveraging OTP to serve millions of users globally. We foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning, offering the opportunity to solve complex challenges at a massive scale.

Your key responsibilities and impact

1. Develop and maintain robust, scalable software in Elixir.
2. Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues throughout the product life cycle.
3. Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting for our services.
4. Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS services.
5. Contribute to code reviews and foster a culture of high-quality engineering.

Your skills and experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

1. Extensive experience writing and maintaining robust production software in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles.
2. Professional experience developing with functional programming languages (e.g. Elixir, Erlang, Clojure, etc.) or infrastructure-focused programming languages (Go, Rust, Ruby, etc.).
3. Strong expertise in designing systems for observability, including effective monitoring, detailed logging, comprehensive performance testing strategies, and hands-on experience with modern observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or CloudWatch to implement and manage monitoring solutions.
4. Hands-on experience with core AWS, or other cloud providers like GCP or Azure, to architect scalable and resilient infrastructure.
5. Extensive experience with automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to ensure quality and efficiency in software delivery.

DESIRED:

1. In-depth knowledge of Linux systems and performance tuning.
2. Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
3. Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes).
4. Familiarity with technical writing.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: , registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.