Overview

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JOB DETAILS

Job band: D

Contract type: Permanent, Full-time

Department: Engineering Enablement

Location: London Broadcasting House or Glasgow Pacific Quay – Hybrid 1 day a week in office

Proposed salary range: £63,000 - £73,000 + London Weighting £5,319 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. If you’d like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there’s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

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.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 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 CI/CD pipelines to ensure quality and efficiency in software delivery

Desirable

• 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

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Broadcast Media Production and Distribution