Software Engineer

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Digital Distribution
LOCATION: London Broadcasting House - 2 Days a week in office Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £52,500 - £57,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Media Distribution Analytics is the team that knows what your streaming experience was while watching the World Cup on iPlayer or listening to your favourite podcast on BBC Sounds. The BBC’s future is dependent on delivering content to an ever-growing online audience and setting the industry standard for a world-class on-demand and live streaming experience. That means playing content back flawlessly and offering the best quality media to our audience, so that we continue to deliver news, entertainment and the U.K’s most prestigious live events that delight our audiences.
To achieve these goals the Media Distribution Analytics team develop the data products and pipelines that ingest, measure and visualise the audience experience and allow us to take action, often in real-time, in addition to informing long term capacity requirements and performance. This is a data engineering team that processes enormous quantities of data, and works closely with device playback and the BBC’s own Content Distribution Network team (BIDI), as well as third party network suppliers, to help make the online streaming experience the best it can possibly be.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Joining the Media Distribution Analytics team as a software engineer is a chance to work on high-impact, real-time data systems that improve how millions experience BBC content. You’ll collaborate with a team of experienced engineers, build scalable data pipelines, and contribute to cutting-edge streaming analytics - a unique opportunity to shape the future of online media distribution at the BBC.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Design and build data products to understand media distribution within the BBC.
• Maintain and extend a petabyte-scale data lake and ETL process.
• Develop our real-time stream processing pipeline used for operational monitoring.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers to find new requirements, ensure products are impactful and add value.
• Contribute to culture of engineering excellence

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Production experience using a programming language commonly used in data engineering such as Python, SQL, or Java and openness to learning others
• Strong understanding of the fundamentals of databases whether relational, object storage, or data warehouses and knowledge of the state of the art in modern datalake and data modelling tools
• Hands-on experience with batch or streaming data pipelines and are keen to deepen your knowledge of tools like Spark, Kafka, or Flink.
• Production experience with cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience working with 3rd party data providers, expressing requirements and driving improvement in their service

DESIRABLE:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and its use to deploy Data Products at scale
• You love working with data and building data products that help shape user experiences.
• Experience in working with data visualization tools (such as Looker, Grafana, or PowerBI) to communicate insights from data
• Enjoy collaborating in cross-functional teams and being comfortable asking questions, seeking feedback, and learning from others

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.