Senior Software Engineer

Who We Are

Sirius

XM and its brands (Pandora, Sirius

XM Media, Ads Wizz, Simplecast, and Sirius

XM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad‑supported audio entertainment experience for listeners – in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.

Sirius

XM Media is the gateway for marketers to North America’s most prominent digital audio advertising ecosystem. As the combined advertising revenue organization of Sirius

XM Holdings Inc., Sirius

XM Media spans across leading owned and operated audio platforms Pandora and Sirius

XM; innovative ad tech solutions powered by Ads Wizz; sonic creative consultancy Studio Resonate; and an extended content network featuring exclusive monetization agreements with Audiochuck, NBC Universal, Sound Cloud, and many more. Reaching more than 150 million listeners each month, Sirius

XM Media delivers audiences the tailored brand experiences they crave while putting creators first, making it easy for every marketer to produce, plan, buy and measure across its entire audio universe.

Ads Wizz, a subsidiary of Sirius

XM, is the leading global provider of digital audio and podcast advertising solutions. Ads Wizz is the underlying monetization solution for well‑known music platforms, podcasts, and broadcasting groups worldwide, giving advertisers of all sizes unprecedented access to premium and niche audio content. Through dynamic ad insertion, advanced programmatic platforms, and innovative audio formats, Ads Wizz efficiently connects buyers and sellers for digital audio and podcast advertising.

Ads Wizz is a global company with a presence in over 40 countries and a Technology Development Hub in Bucharest, Romania.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will join a highly performing team of engineers who build, own, and maintain backend services, data products and reporting applications. You will design, collaborate, and execute building the Ads Wizz data products and reporting systems at scale while automating and providing insights into the data onboarding with the SXM Media and Ads Wizz services.

• Design and build high‑performance, reliable, and scalable reporting APIs and data pipelines.
• Lead high‑level architecture discussions and planning sessions work with ad measurement, revenue and addressability data.
• Work with various teams of engineers building software in a collaborative development process.
• Collaborate with the Product team to clarify the scope of the projects by giving thoughtful feedback which challenges and clarifies requirements intent.
• Execute tasks with utmost clarity and precision, demonstrating a strong sense of ownership and providing clear direction to drive projects forward effectively.
• Collaborate with the Global Operations and Cloud Infrastructure teams to ensure flawless production deployments and support the Incident Management team.
• Responsible for mentoring and guiding junior engineers.

• 12+ years of software engineering experience in Python or Java programming language (preferably JDK
  17 or higher).
• 7+ years designing, building, and managing data pipelines using Spark, Big Query, AWS EMR, and GCP Cloud Analytics.
• 7+ years of experience crafting REST API based‑microservices and scalable products, utilizing diverse cloud platforms (ideally AWS).
• Cloud data warehouse & analytics platforms (Snowflake, Big Query).
• Observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack.
• Data pipeline expectations framework experience (like Monte Carlo data, Great Expectations, Soda).
• Working with containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Messaging platforms and stream data processing (like Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub).
• Collaboration tools like Miro (or Lucidchart), Jira and Confluence.
• Strong understanding of engineering software processes, lifecycle methodology, configuration management, release management, and system verification and testing.
• Abili…