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Staff Software Engineer, Context Experience

New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 May 2025

💰 $271,355/yr($201,003/yr – $271,355/yr)

About the role

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Content Experiences team is responsible for the core content browsing experience at Peloton, including supporting the homescreen, class library, scheduling features, and tooling for internal production stakeholders. We are looking for a passionate Staff Software Engineer/Tech Lead. This person will provide technical leadership as the team designs, builds, and deploys innovative products and services while scaling our architecture to support many more millions of members. We are looking for proven experience in areas including API and data modeling, system design, and service migration and development. At Peloton, intelligent and motivated engineers can have a tremendous impact on what we create and how we create it. Help us build the future of fitness!

YOUR DAILY IMPACT AT PELOTON

Enhance and operate business-critical APIs and services with a focus on high availability, low latency, security and scalability
Propose, experiment, and implement solutions to scale services while meeting business and product requirements
Leverage production monitoring/profiling/tracing and load testing tools to discover bottlenecks and using techniques such as data modeling, query optimization, and caching to address the bottlenecks
Be a technical leader within the team you work with and cross functionally within Peloton
Be able to identify common patterns as well as develop and foster development of reusable components and standards across teams
Coordinate technical projects across teams within Peloton
Be a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional agile team
Use industry-standard, cloud-native tech, which means easily transferable skills
Bring in best practices of software development in your team and evangelize across teams

YOU BRING TO PELOTON

8+ years of experience developing high-performance, highly scalable backend cloud application systems
A valued team player in a dynamic, autonomous, cross-functional agile team that inspires others
Hands-on experience building, testing, deploying, and monitoring services
Expertise in Kotlin, Python, or similar languages
Hands-on experience decomposing monoliths into microservices
Hands-on experience implementing event-driven architectures
Experience interfacing with members of other teams to gain clarity, triage issues, and drive cross-functional initiatives
Experience with both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB, Cassandra, Mongo) databases
Experience with caching technologies such as Memache, Redis
Experience with request processing such as REST or gRPC
Familiar with deployment toolings/environments such as Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position based at our New York City headquarters. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors including, without limitation, experience and business objectives and if the location for the job changes. Our base salary is just one component of Peloton’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan as well as other region-specific health and welfare benefits.

As an organization, one of our top priorities is to maintain the health and wellbeing for our employees and their family. To achieve this goal, we offer robust and comprehensive benefits including: