Software Engineer, Content Engineering

The Applied Machine Learning Group is seeking a Software Engineer to build and scale systems that power

content understanding, metadata enrichment, and personalization across Paramount's global content

catalog. In this role, you will work on the core infrastructure and internal tools that enable high-

quality metadata ingestion and curation directly impacting content discovery,

recommendations, and user experience across Paramount's streaming portfolio.

This is a highly cross-functional role at the intersection of content, data, and machine learning,

partnering closely with ML engineers, product teams, and data stakeholders to bring metadata-driven

The ideal candidate will be: - Enthusiastic about spanning the full lifecycle of a content data system from ingest and

enrichment through deployment, monitoring, and downstream delivery - Invested in going beyond moving data to understanding it; developing domain-level

familiarity with the content catalog, and how data quality issues upstream affect systems

downstream - Committed to continuous improvement; takes ownership of feature implementation,

plans for future maintainability - Skilled at partnering with Product to translate evolving content strategy into concrete

engineering decisions; asking clarifying questions and iterating toward well-defined

solutions under ambiguity - Collaborative across engineering teams; working with upstream providers and

downstream consumers to define integration contracts, and ensuring the sequencing of

changes so that features ship cohesively - Eager to leverage AI agents in the software development process for understanding

code, troubleshooting, developing new features, and fixing issues

Metadata Ingestion & Enrichment - 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

Backend Services & Data Modeling - 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

Internal Tooling & Curation - Support editorial curation workflows that feed the personalization experience, ensuring

curators have the tooling and data quality needed to make effective content decisions

- 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

Additional

Qualifications - Django and Django REST Framework for production backend applications - Google Cloud Platform: Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager, GKE - Google Cloud Pub/Sub subscriber/publisher patterns - Elasticsearch index management, full-text search, mapping updates - Experience building content metadata management systems - Exposure to personalization, recommendation systems, or ML-adjacent platforms - Experience working in event-driven architectures, designing systems around async

Paramount Streaming, a division within Paramount Global, is the home to the company's direct-to-consumer services spanning free and paid in the form of Pluto TV and Paramount+. Pluto TV is the global leader in free ad-supported TV, delivering more than 1,400 global channels and an extensive library of streaming content, including live and original channels.

Paramount+, digital subscription video-on-demand and live streaming service, combines live sports, breaking news, and A Mountain of Entertainment. Paramount+ features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including SHOWTIME.

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement.

This position is bonus eligible.