JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Enablement
LOCATION: London Broadcasting House or Glasgow Pacific Quay – Hybrid 1 day a week in office
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £63,000 - £73,000 + London Weighting £5,319
depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join the BBC team responsible for the routing and resiliency layer serving most of our global Web and Apps products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and operating a high-performance cluster of Elixir applications. Your work will directly impact millions of users worldwide, ensuring our key services are fast, reliable, and always available.

You’d join a collaborative team of expert Elixir engineers dedicated to performance and resilience. You will work on highly impactful solutions, leveraging OTP to serve millions of users globally. We foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning, offering the opportunity to solve complex challenges at a massive scale.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable software in Elixir.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues throughout the product life cycle.
• Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting for our services.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS services.
• Contribute to code reviews and foster a culture of high-quality engineering.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Extensive experience writing and maintaining robust production software in a fast-changing environment with rapid release cycles
• Professional experience developing with functional programming languages (e.g. Elixir, Erlang, Clojure, etc.) or infrastructure-focused programming languages (Go, Rust, Ruby, etc.).
• Strong expertise in designing systems for observability, including effective monitoring, detailed logging, comprehensive performance testing strategies, and hands-on experience with modern observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or CloudWatch to implement and manage monitoring solutions.
• Hands-on experience with core AWS, or other cloud providers like GCP or Azure, to architect scalable and resilient infrastructure.
• Extensive experience with automated testing frameworks and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure quality and efficiency in software delivery.

DESIRED:

• In-depth knowledge of Linux systems and performance tuning.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with technical writing

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

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.

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