Senior Engineer, Backend

Company: Samsung Research America (SRA) 
Title: Senior Engineer, Backend
Location: Mountain View, CA (on-site) 
Lab: NEON 

Lab Summary: 

We are NEON, a subsidiary of Samsung dedicated to creating Artificial Humans who interact with you in ways indistinguishable from the real world. Our NEONs (Neo humaNs) draw inspiration from the most natural of interfaces: interaction with another human being. Bringing together a world-class R&D team of researchers, developers, and engineers, that are building production technology at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, machine learning, real-time computing, conversational agents, computer graphics, design, and more. 

NEONs hold the potential to advance our digital world while preserving the elements of human interaction that are meaningful to all of us. If you share that dream – if you want to make the visions you saw in Her, Blade Runner, and more into tangible reality – and are passionate about taking such ideas into handcrafted renderings, we would love to hear from you! 

Position Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled, thoughtful, and collaborative Senior Backend Engineer to help design and develop the next generation of NEONs and deliver this innovative technology to a wide user base. As a part of the technical team, you’ll solve challenging problems and provide input into both product roadmaps and development approaches. 

Position Responsibility: 

• Design and develop performant and scalable backend systems and databases 
• Develop systems that are accessible from different geolocations / regions 
• Build security-first systems for mass consumption of NEONs 

Required Skills:

• BS Computer Science + 5 years of industry experience or MS Computer Science + 3 year of industry experience or equivalent combination of education and trainings 
• Experience working on scalable architecture which can handle high volumes of data built using our cloud-based platform 
• Experience in domain driven design, and RESTful Services using languages Python or JavaScript 
• Experience with both relational like MySQL and non-relational databases such as DynamoDB 

• Must have experience with AWS Lambda, RDS, EC2, API Gateway and other AWS Services 
• Exposure to GraphQL API implementations 
• Used technologies like S3 to store user generated content 
• Worked with caching engines like Redis or Memcached 

Special Attributes:

• Deeper understanding of CDNs 
• Worked with video streaming protocols like WebRTC, HLS or DASH