Staff Software Engineer

Who We Are:

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SiriusXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners -- in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories, and music they love wherever they are.

This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM's vision to life every day.

SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM's platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment, and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics, and monetization. The Company's advertising sales organization, which operates as SXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization, and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.

How you'll make an impact:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Content Enablement team, you will lead the development of advanced tools and services that empower users to enrich, manage, and curate content efficiently. This role is central to our effort to protect our platform from spin fraud, unfair royalty payouts, and degraded user experiences at scale. You will own and evolve platform-level solutions for fraud prevention, architecting highly scalable, resilient, and modular systems that operate in adversarial environments. In this role, you will take on key leadership responsibilities, driving the evolution of our programming tools to ensure they are highly functional, intuitive, and seamlessly integrated across systems. You will architect scalable, modular solutions, focusing on long-term efficiency and alignment with company goals. Collaborating closely with product, data science, design, and infrastructure teams, you'll help define and lead feature development, driving projects from concept through implementation. In addition, you'll mentor engineers at multiple levels, raise engineering standards, and act as a go-to expert in distributed systems, fraud detection, and backend platform design.

What you'll do:

• Own and define the technical architecture for fraud detection, content integrity, and listener behavior analysis systems.

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable services, filters, and tooling to detect and prevent automated/bot traffic across listener behavior.

• Set and evolve long-term architecture and spin fraud prevention strategy by developing scalable detection frameworks and maintaining high system reliability.

• Define front-end architecture (component standards, state management patterns, API contracts) to ensure maintainable and consistent tooling.

• Drive cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with product, science, design, and infrastructure partners.

• Mentor and coach engineers (including senior engineers), influencing best practices, system design quality, and technical rigor.

• Establish engineering standards around testing, observability, deployment, and operational excellence.

• Deploy and operate production services in AWS.

• Pair with other team members when necessary.

What you'll need:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including extensive experience building large-scale backend systems in Java.

• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives.

• Strong experience designing, developing, testing and deploying web applications using common standards and frameworks.

• Expert-level experience with AWS, including deploying applications using services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, and IAM.

• Strong experience with both SQL (RDS, Aurora) and Redis caching (ElastiCache).

• Strong experience building modern web UIs with a component-based framework (e.g., Angular).

• Experience with AWS networking, infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CloudFormation or Terraform), and monitoring best practices.

• Experience in fraud detection, trust & safety is a strong plus.

• Experience with writing automated tests.

• Experience with web-based API design and development (e.g., GraphQL, REST).

• Experience building stream processing systems using Kafka or AWS-native services.

• Curious and open to developing expertise in anti-fraud systems, adversarial behavior analysis, and behavioral anomaly detection as part of the role.

• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.

• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

• Commitment to "internal client" and customer service principles.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects.

• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and multitask, and work under shifting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Must have the legal right to work in the U.S.

At SiriusXM, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your background and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We expect the base salary for this position to be in the range of $101,500 to $200,000 and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.

Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.