ABOUT THE ROLE
The Content Experiences team is responsible for the core content browsing experience at Peloton, including supporting the homescreen, class library, scheduling features, and tooling for internal production stakeholders. We are looking for a passionate Staff Software Engineer/Tech Lead. This person will provide technical leadership as the team designs, builds, and deploys innovative products and services while scaling our architecture to support many more millions of members. We are looking for proven experience in areas including API and data modeling, system design, and service migration and development. At Peloton, intelligent and motivated engineers can have a tremendous impact on what we create and how we create it. Help us build the future of fitness!
YOUR DAILY IMPACT AT PELOTON
Enhance and operate business-critical APIs and services with a focus on high availability, low latency, security and scalability
Propose, experiment, and implement solutions to scale services while meeting business and product requirements
Leverage production monitoring/profiling/tracing and load testing tools to discover bottlenecks and using techniques such as data modeling, query optimization, and caching to address the bottlenecks
Be a technical leader within the team you work with and cross functionally within Peloton
Be able to identify common patterns as well as develop and foster development of reusable components and standards across teams
Coordinate technical projects across teams within Peloton
Be a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional agile team
Use industry-standard, cloud-native tech, which means easily transferable skills
Bring in best practices of software development in your team and evangelize across teams
YOU BRING TO PELOTON
8+ years of experience developing high-performance, highly scalable backend cloud application systems
A valued team player in a dynamic, autonomous, cross-functional agile team that inspires others
Hands-on experience building, testing, deploying, and monitoring services
Expertise in Kotlin, Python, or similar languages
Hands-on experience decomposing monoliths into microservices
Hands-on experience implementing event-driven architectures
Experience interfacing with members of other teams to gain clarity, triage issues, and drive cross-functional initiatives
Experience with both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB, Cassandra, Mongo) databases
Experience with caching technologies such as Memache, Redis
Experience with request processing such as REST or gRPC
Familiar with deployment toolings/environments such as Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc
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.
Peloton is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Peloton, where all team members, applicants, and other covered persons are considered on the basis of their personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, unemployment status, familial status, domestic violence, sexual violence or stalking victim status, caregiver status, or any other protected characteristic as established by applicable law. This policy of equal employment opportunity applies to all practices and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment. If you would like to request any accommodations from application through to interview, please email: [email protected].
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, as applicable to applicants applying for positions in these jurisdictions.
Please be aware that fictitious job openings, consulting engagements, solicitations, or employment offers may be circulated on the Internet in an attempt to obtain privileged information, or to induce you to pay a fee for services related to recruitment or training. Peloton does NOT charge any application, processing, or training fee at any stage of the recruitment or hiring process. All genuine job openings will be posted here on our careers page and all communications from the Peloton recruiting team and/or hiring managers will be from an @onepeloton.com email address.
If you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Peloton, please email [email protected] before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.
Peloton does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Agencies should not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Peloton employees or any other organization location. Peloton is not responsible for any agency fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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