Staff Software Engineer, System Architect

WORK OPTION: Remote

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball.  Built around five professional sports leagues:  the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents.  NBA rosters at the start of the 2023-24 season featured a record 125 international players from 40 countries and territories.  NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass.  The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms.  NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness. 
 

Position Summary:

The NBA is looking for a senior 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.
• Architect high-throughput, low-latency data processing systems to ingest, process and deliver data
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to architect and build the infrastructure to support multi-modal, machine learning systems that leverage the latest computer vision and data processing technologies.
• Establish best practices and scalable workflows crafted to handle the demanding nature of processing and analyzing sophisticated data from a high volume of games in real-time.
• Integrate data processing infrastructure with live video review systems.
• Contribute to data science infrastructure that generates insights from player tracking data.
• Contribute to full stack cloud-based development projects that help to build the NBA's next generation of automated officiating initiatives.

Required Education/Professional Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Computer Science, Data Science or related field. 

• Extensive software development experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, C++, Go, Java, C#, SQL.

• Proven experience architecting production systems for high-throughput, low-latency data processing.
• Proven experience and strong understanding of Kubernetes' core components.
• Experience building the infrastructure to deploy AI/ML models at scale within a consumer-facing application.
• Experience building hybrid cloud/on-prem software systems.
• Experience with the infrastructure required to deploy ML applications based on computer vision.
• Experience with data science, statistical analysis, data wrangling, and/or data processing is a plus. 
• Experience with API management / gateway tools like Apigee, Kong, Gravitee or equivalent with the knowledge of API mashups, analytics, developer networks and security is a plus.

Required Skills/Knowledge Attributes:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. You are comfortable discussing complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• 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!
• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.

Salary Range: [[$175,000 - $210,000]] 

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.

About the NBA
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball.  Built around five professional sports leagues:  the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 215 countries and territories in more than 50 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents.  NBA rosters at the start of the 2021-22 season featured a record 121 international players from 40 countries.  NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass.  The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with 2.1 billion likes and followers globally across all league, team, and player platforms.  Through NBA Cares, the league addresses important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.