Rust Backend Engineer - Platform

Second Spectrum is a Sports Emmy-winning data & tech company that is building the next way of seeing sports - by capturing and producing the highest quality data and innovative content for many of the world’s largest leagues and media partners, such as the NFL, NBA, English Premier League, ESPN, Amazon, and CBS Sports.

We are pushing the boundaries of deep tech -- machine learning, computer vision, big data, augmented and virtual reality. Our passion for cutting-edge design and decades of experience playing college and professional sports is an equal part of the magic that brings unique and innovative products to life. These products have helped Second Spectrum partners to multiple NBA championships, to win matches on football pitches around the world, to entertain and educate millions of fans on TV and digital. In 2021, Second Spectrum was acquired by Genius Sports, bringing together a unique combination of technological, operational and commercial capabilities.

We believe that technology will revolutionize the way that sports are played, coached, and experienced. We're just getting started turning our joint vision of transformative sports technologies into reality. 

Second Spectrum is the place to be if you’re interested in working on cutting edge technology in sports, alongside incredibly driven and ambitious teammates. Our innovative and dynamic environment emphasizes opportunities for motivated individuals to maximize their growth and impact.

What You’ll Do:

You will design and develop our real-time and batch-processing systems that deliver analytics to partners like the NBA, Premier League, and more. Specifically, you will

• Work closely with our AI team to integrate our ever-growing and unique dataset into both internal and customer-facing applications
• Build systems designed to ingest, validate, and store both real-time and batch data
• Develop our proprietary data query engine that powers our flagship analytics product
• Build highly autonomous systems to scale our technology and minimize the need for manual intervention.
• Collaborate on tools and frameworks that support the developer experience and velocity across the engineering organization

What You Have:

• Proficiency with Rust and/or High Performance Systems Languages such as C++ or Go
• Experience with designing, developing, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems
• Experience working in a cross-functional group spanning ML, Product, QA, operations, and sales
• Product and Team-first mindset
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment
• You care about your craft
• Learning and mentoring mentality
• 3+ years of experience

Nice To Haves:

• Experience working with ETL and MapReduce frameworks
• Experience with zero-copy deserialization libraries like rkyv, Cap’n Proto, or FlatBuffers
• Experience working with asynchronous Messaging and Streaming Protocols (Pulsar, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ)
• Experience developing products and software for live events.
• DevOps experience with Docker
• Experience with AWS (S3, EC2)

As a general approach, we interview for aptitude over specific technologies or languages. Please be prepared to speak to anything listed on your resume or in your portfolio.

Our Work Environment and What You Will Benefit From:

• Cutting-edge products to work on for major professional sports leagues and teams.
• Team-oriented engineering habits and software engineering best practices (readable, maintainable, and efficient code).
• Flat hierarchy and collaborative management led by experienced and strong technical leads.
• Innovative and dynamic environment, which encourages self-development and opportunities to make an impact.
• Multicultural team with employees based across several countries (e.g., Switzerland, Denmark, France, United States, China).
• Potential for Equity/Bonus, Flexible working hours, Competitive salary, Medical and dental benefits, 401k match

What’s in it for you? 

As well as a competitive salary and annual leave allowance, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on the location. We also offer a host of softer benefits, including many social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities.   

The base salary range for this role is $125,000 – $180,000. There are a number of factors which affect what the specific pay offer would be for this role, including location, seniority, and relevant educational and working experience. This is base salary only – all full-time roles will also be eligible to take part in Second Spectrum benefits and equity plan, and some roles may be eligible to take part in a bonus plan. For more details on the compensation and benefits package, please get in touch with our Talent team.

How we work 

We have adapted a forward-thinking ‘Ways of Working’ framework, which sets out (amongst other things) the opportunities for Second Spectrum to work flexibly, remotely and on working holidays. It affects different teams and locations differently, so please ask for further information on how it would work with this role. 

Our employees are empowered to stretch the boundaries of what’s achievable, always reaching further and pushing the edges to see what gives. We collaborate, we innovate, and we celebrate. We will continue to grow as an organization and continue to invest in our highly talented and diverse team.

Second Spectrum, part of Genius Sports Group, is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that a diverse and inclusive workforce bring to our business, our customers and our staff. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of age, different abilities or disability, gender identity or re-assignment, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation (and any other applicable status). Please let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.