Senior Software Engineer at BBC

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.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

• 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:

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

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Extensive experience writing and maintaining robust production software in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles
• Professional experience developing with functional programming languages (e.g. Elixir, Erlang, Clojure, etc.) or infrastructure-focused programming languages (Go, Rust, Ruby, etc.).
• 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.
• Hands-on experience with core AWS, or other cloud providers like GCP or Azure, to architect scalable and resilient infrastructure.
• Extensive experience with automated testing frameworks and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure quality and efficiency in software delivery.

DESIRED:

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