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Major League Baseball (MLB) · 2 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$150K/yr - $185K/yr

5+ years exp

Major League Baseball is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Web Platform Architecture team. The role involves architecting, building, and operating the foundational web platform that powers MLB.com and enhancing security, performance, and developer experience across our digital products.

AssociationBaseballSportsSports Leagues and Teams

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain core platform services, libraries, and tools in Node.js and TypeScript that improve developer experience and system-wide functionality

Architect and implement solutions on our edge computing platform (e.g., Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge) to enhance performance, security, and reliability

Design, build, and maintain the software and systems that power our CI/CD pipelines, enabling developers to ship code with confidence and speed

Architect, maintain, and optimize our cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles (Terraform, Kubernetes)

Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system performance, reliability, observability, and security posture

Automate manual processes to improve engineering team velocity and system reliability

Mentor and provide technical guidance to software engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning

Participate in an agile environment

Participate in the full software development life cycle (requirements gathering, designing, building, testing, and maintenance)

Proactively seek constructive criticism of your own work and offer constructive feedback to others in a way that raises people up and builds relationships

Participate in and lead triage efforts during production incidents, including managing on-call rotations and post-mortems

Lead and take ownership of critical platform features and your own initiatives

Stay abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and industry standards related to backend development, cloud infrastructure, automation, and security

Mentor and coach engineers in your team and across the organization to build a strong engineering-focused culture

Influence the way that baseball is consumed by millions of users worldwide

Qualification

Node.jsTypeScriptTerraformCI/CD solutionsKubernetesCloudflareFastlyDockerCloud platformsMonitoring toolsObservability toolsAgile environmentMentoring

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

5+ years of professional software development experience, with a significant focus on backend services, web platforms, or infrastructure engineering

Strong proficiency in modern programming languages, particularly Node.js and TypeScript, for building backend services and tools

Proven experience developing for edge computing platforms (e.g., Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge)

Deep experience with cloud-native tooling such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform

Experience with at least one major Cloud platform (Google Cloud, AWS, or similar)

Expertise in designing and building CI/CD solutions (e.g., Github Actions, Tekton)

Experience with CDNs such as Cloudflare and Fastly and proxy technologies such as HAProxy or Nginx

Strong background in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)

Preferred

Experience with Google Cloud

Experience with HAProxy and the Fastly CDN

Experience in full-stack JavaScript development, building and maintaining both Node.js backend services and modern frontend applications (e.g., React, Vue, Svelte)

Professional certification in a major cloud platform (e.g., Google Professional Cloud Developer, AWS Certified Developer/DevOps Engineer)

Experience contributing to open-source projects

Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a comparable field of study

A baseball fan or sports enthusiast

Benefits

Competitive Benefits Package

Company 401K Contribution

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV

Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com

Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)

Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs

Tuition Reimbursement

Disability Benefits (short term and long term)

Life and Accidental Death Insurance

Pet Insurance

Company

Major League Baseball (MLB)

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Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic professional sports league in the United States and consists of 30 member clubs in the U.S.

Founded in 2000

New York, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.mlb.com

H1B Sponsorship

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