Software Engineer, Content Engineering

Paramount

Software Engineer focused on building and scaling systems for content understanding and metadata enrichment at Paramount. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance the content catalog's effectiveness.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $110,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDjangoGoogle Cloud PlatformPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain backend services that support content understanding, metadata modeling, and enrichment workflows
Contribute to systems that process and manage metadata for a large-scale, global content catalog
Maintain and expand the API layer and data models across two provider contexts (Paramount+ and PlutoTV) as the codebase converges toward a unified multi-tenant architecture
Uphold engineering quality through test coverage, code reviews, and consistent application of coding standards
Support editorial curation workflows that feed the personalization experience, ensuring curators have the tooling and data quality needed to make effective content decisions

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of professional software engineering experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Strong proficiency in a Python web API and ORM framework (Django/ORM/DRF preferred)
Knowledge of cloud infrastructure including managed databases, object storage, and container orchestration (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
API design with backwards compatibility across multiple consumer teams
Relational data modeling for transactional systems
Experience building data engineering pipelines, including best practices like defensive coding at ingestion boundaries, instrumentation to surface anomalies early, and awareness of data drift so that quality issues are caught before they propagate downstream

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical
dental
vision
401(k) plan
life insurance coverage
disability benefits
tuition assistance program
PTO

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonDjangoORMDRFAPI designrelational data modelingdata engineering pipelinesdefensive codinginstrumentationdata drift

Soft Skills

engineering qualitycode reviewscoding standardseditorial curationcontent decisions

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Engineeringrelated field degree