Software Engineer, Content Engineering at Paramount Skydance

Job description

Storytelling is, and will always be, the heart of what we do at Skydance. Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled. Here, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day. If you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO! Overview and Responsibilities The Applied Machine Learning Group is seeking a Software Engineer to build and scale systems that power content understanding, metadata enrichment, and personalization across Paramount's global content catalog. In this role, you will work on the core infrastructure and internal tools that enable high- quality metadata ingestion and curation directly impacting content discovery, recommendations, and user experience across Paramount's streaming portfolio. This is a highly cross-functional role at the intersection of content, data, and machine learning, partnering closely with ML engineers, product teams, and data stakeholders to bring metadata-driven experiences to life. The ideal candidate will be: - Enthusiastic about spanning the full lifecycle of a content data system from ingest and enrichment through deployment, monitoring, and downstream delivery - Invested in going beyond moving data to understanding it; developing domain-level familiarity with the content catalog, and how data quality issues upstream affect systems downstream - Committed to continuous improvement; takes ownership of feature implementation, plans for future maintainability - Skilled at partnering with Product to translate evolving content strategy into concrete engineering decisions; asking clarifying questions and iterating toward well-defined solutions under ambiguity - Collaborative across engineering teams; working with upstream providers and downstream consumers to define integration contracts, and ensuring the sequencing of changes so that features ship cohesively - Eager to leverage AI agents in the software development process for understanding code, troubleshooting, developing new features, and fixing issues Responsibilities Include: Metadata Ingestion & Enrichment - Design, build, and maintain backend services that support content understanding, metadata modeling, and enrichment workflows - Contribute to systems that process and manage metadata for a large-scale, global content catalog Backend Services & Data Modeling - Maintain and expand the API layer and data models across two provider contexts (Paramount+ and PlutoTV) as the codebase converges toward a unified multi-tenant architecture - Uphold engineering quality through test coverage, code reviews, and consistent application of coding standards Internal Tooling & Curation - Support editorial curation workflows that feed the personalization experience, ensuring curators have the tooling and data quality needed to make effective content decisions Basic Qualifications - 3+ years of professional software engineering experience - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience - Strong proficiency in a Python web API and ORM framework (Django/ORM/DRF preferred) - Knowledge of cloud infrastructure including managed databases, object storage, and container orchestration (GCP, AWS, or Azure) - API design with backwards compatibility across multiple consumer teams - Relational data modeling for transactional systems - Experience building data engineering pipelines, including best practices like defensive coding at ingestion boundaries, instrumentation to surface anomalies early, and awareness of data drift so that quality issues are caught before they propagate downstream Additional Qualifications - Django and Django REST Framework for production backend applications - Google Cloud Platform: Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager, GKE - Google Cloud Pub/Sub subscriber/publisher patterns - Elasticsearch index management, full-text search, mapping updates - Experience building content metadata management systems - Exposure to personalization, recommendation systems, or ML-adjacent platforms - Experience working in event-driven architectures, designing systems around async pipelines Paramount Streaming, a division within Paramount Global, is the home to the company's direct-to-consumer services spanning free and paid in the form of Pluto TV and Paramount+. Pluto TV is the global leader in free ad-supported TV, delivering more than 1,400 global channels and an extensive library of streaming content, including live and original channels. Paramount+, digital subscription video-on-demand and live streaming service, combines live sports, breaking news, and A Mountain of Entertainment™. Paramount+ features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including SHOWTIME®. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Hiring Salary Range: $110,400.00 - 165,600.00. The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible. What We Offer : • Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here . • Generous paid time off. • Complimentary subscriptions to HBO Max, Paramount+, and other Skydance streaming services and digital news products. • Robust employee engagement opportunities, including access to exclusive screenings and events, speaker series, volunteer activities and more. Skydance is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) We embrace the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability, you may request a reasonable accommodation during the job application and/or recruitment process. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 212.846.5500 or by sending an email to paramountaccommodations@paramount.com. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned.

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Storytelling is, and will always be, the heart of what we do at Skydance.
If you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!
Overview and Responsibilities
The Applied Machine Learning Group is seeking a Software Engineer to build and scale systems that power
content understanding, metadata enrichment, and personalization across Paramount's global content
catalog. In this role, you will work on the core infrastructure and internal tools that enable high-
quality metadata ingestion and curation directly impacting content discovery,
recommendations, and user experience across Paramount's streaming portfolio.
This is a highly cross-functional role at the intersection of content, data, and machine learning,
partnering closely with ML engineers, product teams, and data stakeholders to bring metadata-driven
experiences to life.
Enthusiastic about spanning the full lifecycle of a content data system from ingest and
enrichment through deployment, monitoring, and downstream delivery
Invested in going beyond moving data to understanding it; developing domain-level
familiarity with the content catalog, and how data quality issues upstream affect systems
Committed to continuous improvement; takes ownership of feature implementation,
plans for future maintainability
Skilled at partnering with Product to translate evolving content strategy into concrete
engineering decisions; asking clarifying questions and iterating toward well-defined
solutions under ambiguity
Collaborative across engineering teams; working with upstream providers and
downstream consumers to define integration contracts, and ensuring the sequencing of
changes so that features ship cohesively
Eager to leverage AI agents in the software development process for understanding

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