Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer (Backend Engineer)Location: Dublin, IrelandHybrid working (3 days office, 2 days remote)SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM’s platforms collectively reach approximately million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment, and podcasts. SiriusXM’s Services and Platform Engineering organization is growing in DublinWe’re hiring senior software engineer to join a variety of teams across almost all of our domains–content and playback services, commerce, identity, vehicle, and device services. Our engineers are building the next generation of production services that power SiriusXM and Pandora, serving tens of millions of listeners across North America.Whether it’s delivering high-throughput services, designing fault-tolerant systems, or accelerating internal developer productivity, our teams are tackling impactful technical challenges across the company. You’ll contribute to these efforts while helping to shape the future of our architecture, development practices, and engineering culture.What you’ll do● Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and designers.● Build scalable, performant, and resilient backend systems that support critical business needs.● Participate in system design and architecture reviews to influence technical direction.● Drive software quality through code reviews, testing, and continuous integration.● Contribute to a positive and inclusive engineering culture through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and leadership at your level.● Investigate and resolve complex technical issues in production environments.● Author and review technical design documents, RFCs, and root cause analyses.● Continuously learn and grow in your engineering craft and domain knowledge.● Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure swift resolution of any production outages involving your systems.What you’ll need• Minimum of five years of professional experience.• Fluency in Java and proficiency in more than one.• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.• Experience with the full software development lifecycle, including the use of source control, CI/CD, and various testing approaches.• Experience with distributed systems in a production setting.• Pragmatic approach to weighing engineering trade-offs versus business needs.• Persistent sense of curiosity to understand the “what” and “why” of the systems.• Accountability and a sense of ownership that doesn’t end after the system is deployed to production.• Extra credit:o Experience with Scala and functional programming principles.o Familiarity with asynchronous programming models.o Experience with AWS in a production setting, preferably having leveraged offerings for compute, databases, storage, containers, and serverless technologies.o Exposure to high-throughput distributed systems.o Experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as CDK or Terraform.Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism, and cooperation. SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.