Software Engineer III, Content AI
Peloton · Poland · 2mo ago
ABOUT THE ROLE
Mid level Software Engineer will be a member of the agile team which is responsible for design and development of scalable microservices for Peloton's core features across all platforms (Bike, Tread, Strength, and Digital). The Content AI Team is responsible for training and hosting various models in the domains of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The candidate will be responsible for developing, testing, deploying, and monitoring microservices that specifically power features like search, voice, and subtitles, which are crucial for platform expansion and international growth. In addition to technical delivery, good communication skills are essential for providing updates to engineering leads and other stakeholders, such as Technical Program Managers (TPM).
YOUR DAILY IMPACT AT PELOTON
- Develop and maintain business-critical APIs and services with a focus on high availability, low latency, security and scalability under guidance from senior engineers
- Effectively provide updates to the team leaders and participate in sprint planning and team meetings
- Write understandable, well-tested code with an eye towards maintainability and scalability
- Contribute to building reusable code, libraries, and patterns for use across teams
- Implement solutions to scale services while meeting business and product requirements, often under supervision
- Utilize production monitoring/profiling/tracing and load testing tools to discover bottlenecks and apply techniques such as data modeling, query optimization, and caching to address them
- Understand and implement industry best practices such as feature toggles, CI/CD, test automation, logging, and monitoring in order to ensure confidence in our release process
- Participate in on-call rotations and assist with incident response efforts to maintain system reliability
YOU BRING TO PELOTON
- MS or BS degree in fields such as Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics
- 3+ years of software development experience building backend cloud application systems
- Experience in Kotlin, Python, or similar languages
- Experience with Spring Boot, Bottle/Gunicorn, or similar backend web frameworks (JVM or Python)
- Familiarity with both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB, Mongo) databases
- Familiarity with Elastic Search
- Familiarity with caching systems such as Memcache, Redis
- Experience with request processing such as REST, gRPC, or GraphQL
- Ability to work in high growth, fast-paced environments and adapt to change
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration
- Familiarity with AWS services (DynamoDB, S3, ECR, IAM, Lambda, SQS) and cloud infrastructure concepts
- Familiarity with deployment tooling such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog or similar APM solutions
- Understanding of API design principles, security best practices, and performance optimization
- Experience with production support and troubleshooting issues in distributed systems
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional team members from Product, Design, and QA
BONUS
- Experience with building personal voice digital assistants or chatbots
- Experience with building search platforms, personalizing search and discovery
- Worked with automatic speech recognition (ASR)
The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position based at our New York City headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors including, without limitation, experience and business objectives and if the location for the job changes. Our base salary is just one component of Peloton’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan as well as other region-specific health and welfare benefits.
As an organization, one of our top priorities is to maintain the health and wellbeing for our employees and their family. To achieve this goal, we offer robust and comprehensive benefits including:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Generous paid time off policy
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Access to mental health services
- 401k, tuition reimbursement and student loan paydown plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Fertility and adoption support and up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave
- Child care and family care discounts
- Free access to Peloton Digital App and apparel and product discounts
- Commuter benefits and Citi Bike Discount
- Pet insurance and so much more!
ABOUT PELOTON:
Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON) provides Members with expert instruction, and world class content to create impactful and entertaining workout experiences for anyone, anywhere and at any stage in their fitness journey. At home, outdoors, traveling, or at the gym, Peloton brings together innovative hardware, distinctive software, and exclusive content. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Peloton has millions of Members across the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Austria. For more information, visit www.onepeloton.com.
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