Role/Team overview
This role sits in a business critical domain responsible for application distribution and orchestration across the Sky Europe estate, reaching tens of millions of customer devices. The team is shaping a modern, aligned capability across Comcast, Sky and Comcast syndication partners globally, with a focus on scalable platforms, reliable delivery and strong engineering ownership.
What you'll do
- Build, release and support customer facing products and services at scale
- Develop across the stack, using Go for backend services and TypeScript/React for frontend applications
- Design and implement maintainable components, APIs and integrations in Kubernetes platform and AWS environment
- Improve code quality, testing, observability, CI/CD and release reliability
- Diagnose and resolve issues in live systems, including incident support and root cause analysis
- Work with product, design and engineering peers to deliver effective solutions and contribute to technical direction
What you'll bring
Essential criteria:
- Strong commercial experience designing, building and operating well architected, distributed applications on AWS
- Strong backend development experience in Go
- Strong frontend development experience in TypeScript with a modern framework
- Experience building and troubleshooting automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, setting up observability, and supporting live systems in production
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical direction
- Good judgement, clear communication and a product engineering mindset
Desirable skills and experience:
- Experience with Kubernetes, container platforms and serverless architectures
- Experience working in large scale consumer or platform environments
- Solid experience with AWS CDK, Pulumi or Terraform
- Strong experience with MySQL or similar RDBMSs
- Experience with architectural practices, such as ADRs and RFCs
Benefits and perks
- Free SkyTV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
- Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
- Private healthcare with mental health support
- Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
- Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
- Sharesave and Tech schemes
- A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How you'll work
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. The hybrid working expectations for this role are 2 days in the office per week.
Your office base
Our Sky Group HQ. Equipped with state of the art technology and workspaces, there's plenty of space to see your big ideas come to life. Here you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants and cafes. You can re energise at our gym, catch the latest films at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon. Our Osterley Campus is just a 10 minute walk from Syon Lane train station, or you can get one of our free shuttle buses from Osterley, Gunnersbury and Ealing Broadway stations. Plus, there's free onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.
Equal Opportunity & Diversity
We're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We're a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.
Legal & Eligibility
To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.