Job Description

Nielsen Media would not function without our Technology teams! We are catalysts for delivery quality, on-time, reliable measurements to clients, and we are cultivators, growing our employees through education, skill building and experiences. Around the globe, our Technology teams are relentless in our pursuit of superior analytics, technology, process and support.


ABOUT THE ROLE

Software engineers strike a balance between precision and disruption, between reliability and innovation. Nielsen is a tech company backed by nearly a century of forward momentum to show the world what’s next—and we couldn’t do it without our engineers.

In Nielsen Media, we are the market leader that drives content ratings across virtually all viewing platforms including local and national TV, streaming, digital advertising, and more. This role is in the Media Platform team, where we heavily leverage open source software and cloud technologies to build a single central platform for managing compute, storage, the Media Data Lake (multi PB), ingestion pipeline, orchestration, data science tooling, and more.

ROLE DETAILS

• Develop and enrich our platform by leveraging open source and cloud-native software.
• Learn the internals of open source projects and fork/augment them to better fit our
• scalability, reliability, functional, and security needs (e.g. Presto/Trino, Airflow, Hive,
• Jupyter, etc).
• Leverage kubernetes to drive resource efficiency, auto scaling, standardized
• deployment, and consistency of monitoring.
• Employ proper DevOps practices with a genuine concern for code quality assessment,
• implicit/automated testing, and frequent, no-downtime deployment.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

• Previous experience as a software developer.
• The training to back your work: a masters degree, bachelor’s degree, or, as we
• recognize there isn’t one formula for success, equivalent work experience.
• Intensive knowledge in either Java, Python, or Javascript. This includes all aspects from development through to production (build tools, deployment tools, deployment methods, configuration strategies, etc).
• Computer science fundamentals - algorithms and data structures.
• Personal Plusses - contribution to open source projects, active tech blogging, speaking engagements, pet projects.
• Technical Plusses - Experience on a cloud, knowledge of big data systems (e.g. Spark, Presto, HDFS), orchestration (e.g. Airflow), containerization (e.g. docker, kubernetes), databases/SQL.

ABOUT THE TEAM
The Platform Tools team is awesome because we are a central platform team and own a huge chunk of the services that power all of Nielsen. We fully operate on the AWS cloud at extreme scale. We run entirely over Kubernetes.

Our big data solutions query quadrillions of rows and tens of petabytes a month.
Our orchestration solutions schedule millions of Kubernetes pods a month.
We build true full-stack solutions doing coding, infra, automation, deployment, monitoring, security, and more.


We build nearly everything over open source technologies, which allows us to learn how to build things like Athena ourselves, rather than just using them as-is.
We’re a close knit group that heavily values active learning.
We have an automation-first mentality and avoid tickets or overhead wherever possible. This lets us focus on the fun problems.

ABOUT NIELSEN

We’re in tune with what the world is watching, buying, and everything in between. If you can think of it, we’re measuring it. We sift through the small stuff and piece together big pictures to provide a comprehensive understanding of what’s happening now and what’s coming next for our clients. Today’s data is tomorrow’s marketplace revelation.

We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 100
countries. From global industry leaders to small businesses, consumer goods to media
companies, we work with them all. We’re bringing in data 24/7 and the possibilities are endless.
See what’s next with us at Nielsen:careers.nielsen.com