Position Summary
The NBA is looking for a software engineer with low latency data processing experience to join a diverse product development team. You will be a part of the team responsible for the ingestion, storage, processing and data science involving the NBA’s basketball statistics. Our team’s primary goals are to maintain the historical statistical records of the NBA and then use that data to build fan-facing products that engage and educate the NBA’s fans across the world. If you want to join a team of hardworking developers who love cloud architectures and data science as much as they love basketball stats, this is the job for you!
Major Responsibilities
- Work as a part of a software development team to contribute to current product development projects involving data and basketball statistics.
- Develop high-throughput, low-latency data processing systems to ingest, process and deliver data
- Establish best practices and scalable workflows crafted to handle the demanding nature of processing and analyzing complex data from a high volume of games in real-time.
- Integrate data processing infrastructure with other data/software systems.
- Contribute to data science infrastructure that generates insights from player tracking data.
- Bachelor's degree in Math, Computer Science, Data Science or related field.
- Proven experience building production systems for high-throughput, low-latency data processing.
- Experience or strong understanding of Kubernetes' core components is a plus.
- Experience building the infrastructure to deploy AI/ML models at scale within a consumer-facing application.
- Experience building hybrid cloud/on-prem software systems is a plus.
- Experience with the infrastructure required to deploy ML applications based on computer vision is a plus.
- Experience with data science, statistical analysis, data wrangling, and/or data processing is a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. You are comfortable discussing sophisticated topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Extensive software development experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, C++, Go, Java, C#, SQL
- Ability to craft and implement maintainable APIs. Previous experience in building API platforms or products for developers.
- Committed to write clean code with accurate unit test coverage.
- Willing to support live game processing and comfortable with on-call rotations.
- Strong understanding of NBA basketball and NBA statistics is a plus.
- Display an aptitude for taking initiative to go above and beyond!
- You are comfortable working on a new product under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations!
The NBA does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or any other third parties. Any unsolicited resume sent to the NBA will be considered NBA property, and the NBA will not pay a fee should it hire the subject of any unsolicited resume.
The NBA considers applicants for all positions on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs, and without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, alienage or citizenship status, ancestry, marital status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, veteran status, familial status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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