Sony Pictures Entertainment · 4 months ago
Sr. Engineer Backend
Culver City, California
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$120K/yr - $170K/yr
5+ years expSony Pictures Entertainment is a leading company in the entertainment industry, focusing on motion picture and television production. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure behind their next-generation streaming platform, working on scalable APIs and backend services.
ContentFilm DistributionFilm ProductionMedia and EntertainmentTV Production
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain scalable, cloud-native backend services that support core streaming platform capabilities such as content management, metadata, playback, scheduling, entitlement, and more
Build and optimize APIs that enable internal and external teams to deliver consistent, high-performance video experiences across platforms
Collaborate closely with architects, DevOps, and product managers to design extensible service interfaces and system boundaries
Contribute to service orchestration, data flow optimization, and performance tuning across a microservices-based architecture
Integrate with a variety of internal systems and external services (e.g., CDN APIs, authentication, entitlement, SSAI, analytics)
Drive high standards for software quality, testability, observability, and deployment automation
Participate in architecture reviews, design sessions, sprint planning, and technical mentoring
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience developing backend systems or platform infrastructure in a production environment
Proficiency in C#/.NET and working experience with Go or Python
Solid understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and distributed systems patterns
Experience with cloud-native development (preferably AWS) including services like Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, SQS, and API Gateway
Familiarity with CI/CD workflows, version control, and automated testing frameworks
Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to navigate complex system interdependencies
Excellent collaboration and communication skills; comfortable working across technical and non-technical teams
Preferred
Experience supporting video streaming platforms, especially backend systems related to playback, metadata, entitlement, or content pipelines
Knowledge of advertising technologies such as SSAI, ad beacons, or video analytics (a plus, but not the focus of the role)
Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, or Datadog
Experience working with global teams, vendor partners, or hybrid delivery environments
Benefits
Annual incentive
Comprehensive benefits
Company
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. It is a sub-organization of Sony.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$1M2000-11-07Series A· $1M
Leadership Team
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Tom Bernard
Co-President and Co-Founder of Sony Pictures Classics
Aditya Tahilramani
Vice President of Information Technology
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