[Remote] Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Local Now is a free, ad-supported streaming service delivering local content to viewers across connected devices. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own backend services and content-management integration for their streaming platform, focusing on seamless content delivery and privacy-first architecture.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services that abstract our content management system and serve content to client apps across many device platforms
- Define and evolve API contracts for cross-platform client consumption, including content metadata, playback manifests, ad-decision endpoints, and personalization signals
- Partner with the CMS vendor and internal stakeholders to integrate, troubleshoot, and extend content workflows end-to-end
- Implement privacy-first patterns server-side: consent propagation, data minimization, DSAR plumbing, and PII handling at the platform layer
- Instrument the platform for observability and operational analytics — error rates, latency, content-availability, and ad-decisioning performance
- Work with frontend, platform, and ad-tech engineers to ensure the backend evolves in step with what clients and monetization actually need
- Contribute to architecture review, code review, and the broader engineering bar of the team
Skills
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience building production services at scale
- Strong proficiency in C# and .NET Core, along with Go, Kotlin, Python, TypeScript/Node, or similar, and the discipline to write services that are maintainable years from now
- Experience integrating with third-party SaaS platforms — particularly those that own a critical part of the user-facing experience (CMS, identity, billing, ad-serving)
- Solid grasp of API design, distributed-systems patterns, caching, queueing, and the operational realities of running services in production
- Deep experience with ad tech ecosystems, including server-side ad insertion (SSAI) with MediaTailor, beaconing, and integrating Ad SDKs such as The Trade Desk (UID2) and SpringServe
- Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including IaC patterns and secure-by-default service deployment
- Awareness of privacy, security, and compliance considerations as engineering concerns, not legal afterthoughts
- Excellent collaboration skills; comfortable working with vendors, frontend teams, and product partners simultaneously
- Extensive experience with SQL, including writing stored procedures, and designing scalable analytics table structures
- Experience integrating with a media-industry CMS (Quickplay, Brightcove, Vimeo OTT, MediaKind, or similar)
- Streaming or media-tech background — playback manifests, ad-stitching/SSAI, DRM, content packaging
- Familiarity with privacy/consent technology (Fides, OneTrust, Ethyca, or similar) and DSAR engineering workflows
- Experience using AI coding assistants effectively to ship more in less time without sacrificing quality
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