Role/Team Overview
This role sits in a business‑critical domain responsible for application distribution and orchestration across the Sky Europe estate, reaching tens of millions of customer devices. The team is shaping a modern, aligned capability across Comcast, Sky and Comcast syndication partners globally, with a focus on scalable platforms, reliable delivery and strong engineering ownership.
Responsibilities
- Build, release and support customer‑facing products and services at scale.
- Develop across the stack, using Go for backend services and TypeScript/React for frontend applications.
- Design and implement maintainable components, APIs and integrations in Kubernetes platform and AWS environment.
- Improve code quality, testing, observability, CI/CD and release reliability.
- Diagnose and resolve issues in live systems, including incident support and root cause analysis.
- Work with product, design and engineering peers to deliver effective solutions and contribute to technical direction.
Essential Criteria
- Strong commercial experience designing, building and operating well‑architected, distributed applications on AWS.
- Strong backend development experience in Go.
- Strong frontend development experience in TypeScript with a modern framework.
- Experience building and troubleshooting automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, setting up observability, and supporting live systems in production.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical direction.
- Good judgement, clear communication and a product engineering mindset.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Experience with Kubernetes, container platforms and serverless architectures.
- Experience working in large‑scale consumer or platform environments.
- Solid experience with AWS CDK, Pulumi or Terraform.
- Strong experience with MySQL or similar RDBMSs.
- Experience with architectural practices such as ADRs and RFCs.
Benefits
- Free SkyTV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema.
- Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution.
- Private healthcare with mental health support.
- Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance.
- Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect.
- Sharesave and Tech schemes.
- A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences.
How You’ll Work
We have adopted a hybrid working approach; the hybrid working expectations for this role are two days in the office per week.
Office Base
Our Sky Group HQ is located at the Osterley Campus, just a 10‑minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Shuttle buses are available from Osterley, Gunnersbury and Ealing Broadway stations. Free onsite parking is available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.
Equal Opportunity and Diversity
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.
Legal and Eligibility
To be eligible for this role you must have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position. Applicants who succeed may be required to complete a criminal record check.
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