Golang Job: Software Engineer - Data Ops

Nine. Australia’s Media Company.

Underpinned by our people, our strategic focus is on content, connections and growth.

Driven by our purpose - Australia belongs here - and guided by our values - walk the talk, turn over every stone, keep it human - we are the home of Australia’s most loved content and trusted brands across News, Sport, and Entertainment.

We lead the total television market in Australia through our key brands of Channel 9, Gem, Go, Rush and Life, and of course you can consume all our content, live or on-demand, on Australia’s leading free streaming platform, 9Now. We also own Stan, the market leading local subscription streaming service.

Our total publishing business covers The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review and The Pedestrian Group.

In our total audio business we are building talk radio for the next generation across 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR.

Nine is also an active participant in Australian consumer marketplaces through our majority shareholding in Domain and our ownership of Drive

You will be responsible for building pipelines to ingest data into our platform, making data available to downstream systems, improving our CI/CD practices, test automation, as well as contributing to our cloud architecture and shift towards infrastructure as code.

We are looking for an engineer to join our rapidly growing team, with a focus on architecture, automation and architecture. If you come from a background in backend software engineering, DevOps, Cloud or platform engineering looking for a change, we would love to hear from you.

We work with the latest cloud technologies and are responsible for a petabyte scale data warehouse. Our tech stack includes BigQuery, Apache Airflow, Beam and Kafka, and a number of managed services on Google Cloud.

You will work with content, audience and marketing data. Our team works closely with internal stakeholders across Nine to build integrations, data models, dashboards to democratise data and make data actionable and widely understandable. We work with commercial teams to provide external market-facing audience metrics and insights. We also provide transformed data feeds to audience facing platforms.

Day to day you can expect to

• Build and manage significant data infrastructure in the cloud.

• Work across data engineering teams to contribute to the continuous improvement of practices, architecture and tooling.

• Collaborate with product, engineering and business stakeholders to craft creative data products and solutions.

• Provide data on industry trends, emerging technologies, and new toolsets - we aren't afraid to experiment!

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  Previous experience as a Data, backend software engineer, DevOps, Cloud or Platform Engineer

• Experience with CI/CD tools and practices, infrastructure as code

• Experience coding in Python, Java, SQL, Golang, NodeJS or other backend languages

• Experience across some (but not necessarily all) of our tech stack, Google Cloud Platform experience highly desired

• Experience building/maintaining APIs

Life at Nine

Nine is a people business. Being part of the team means you’ll be in a culture that promotes creativity and innovation, diversity and inclusion, is open to feedback, rewards impact and ensures everyone is heard. Importantly, you'll receive the following:

• Career development and quality training
• Up to 16 weeks paid primary carer’s parental leave
• Discounts on lifestyle, entertainment, and leisure memberships, including health insurance, dental and gym
• Hybrid Working/Flexible working
• Discounts on products and services with corporate partners

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Nine, we are committed to fostering a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and inclusion and where practices are equitable to ensure our people experience a sense of belonging. From day one, you'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and will be supported to perform at your best. Should you require any adjustments to the recruitment process in order to equitably participate, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

Disclaimer: We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Our Talent Acquisition Team are taking a well-deserved break over the festive period. Any applications received from Monday 26 December 2022 to Friday 6 January 2023 will be reviewed when they return to the office the week commencing 9 January 2023. We appreciate your patience during this time and wish you a wonderful holiday season.