SOFTWARE ENGINEER

At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future.  ABOUT THIS JOB Software engineers strike a balance between precision and disruption, between reliability and innovation. Nielsen is a tech company backed by nearly a century of forward momentum to show the world what’s next—and we couldn’t do it without our engineers.In Nielsen Media, we are the market leader that drives content ratings across virtually all viewing platforms including local and national TV, streaming, digital advertising, and more. This role is in the Media Platform team, where we heavily leverage open source software and cloud technologies to build a single central platform for managing compute, storage, the Media Data Lake (multi PB), ingestion pipeline, orchestration, data science tooling, and more.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and enrich our platform by leveraging open source and cloud-native software.
• Learn the internals of open source projects and fork / augment them to better fit our scalability, reliability, functional, and security needs ( Presto, Airflow, Hive, Jupyter, etc).
• Leverage kubernetes to drive resource efficiency, auto scaling, standardized deployment, and consistency of monitoring.
• Employ proper DevOps practices with a genuine concern for code quality assessment, implicit / automated testing, and frequent, no-downtime deployment.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOU

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