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Job Posting Title: Principal Software Engineer, CBS Sports Digital

Department: CBS Sports.com Technology

Location: Nashville, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Remote

What You Will Do

• Lead AI Architecture: Architect and implement advanced Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems to power intelligent recommendations and dynamic user personalization.
• Drive Development: Lead rapid prototyping and full-cycle development of production-grade features for mobile and web applications.
• Define Standards: Establish, promote, and drive adoption of scalable platform standards, engineering patterns, and reusable components across the organization.
• Collaborate and Prototype: Work closely within a small engineering group, partnering with design and product teams to rapidly design, develop, and prototype solutions to key business challenges.
• Ensure Quality: Define guardrails to ensure fast, secure, and compliant adoption and deployment of vibe coded applications. Write robust requirements and production-quality code.
• Advocate for AI: Utilize AI development tools to optimize your workflow and champion AI-driven development practices across the team.
• Operational Excellence: Design for scalability and reliability, incorporating appropriate testing, monitoring, and alerting.
• Mentor and Document: Build clear documentation and diagrams to facilitate easy onboarding for other engineers and support teams. Review code to ensure adherence to best practices (style, testability, efficiency).
• Front-End Performance & Observability: Own front-end performance (Core Web Vitals, bundle size, caching) and observability (RUM, error tracking) for web and mobile applications.
• Monorepo Tooling: Establish and evolve monorepo tooling and workflows (e.g., Turborepo, Nx) to support build, test, and deploy across web and mobile applications.
• Type Safety & Standards: Promote and evolve TypeScript and typing standards (e.g., strict mode, shared types, codegen) so that codebases stay maintainable, type‑safe end to end, and refactor-safe.

Required Qualifications

• Expertise in AI: Proven, production-level expertise in Generative AI and RAG architectures.
• Platform Experience: Strong track record of building scalable platform products and establishing cross-team engineering standards.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to collaborate with and influence senior stakeholders in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment.
• Browser & Performance: Solid understanding of browser behavior, rendering, and front-end performance (e.g., Core Web Vitals, lazy loading, code splitting).
• Monorepo Experience: Experience with monorepo tooling and workflows (e.g., Turborepo, Nx), including shared packages, task pipelines, and cross‑project dependencies.
• Education & Experience: BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience building scalable, production‑grade web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js) and Node.js.
• Strong expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript, including asynchronous programming, generics, strict typing, and advanced ES6+ features.
• Deep knowledge of HTML and CSS, including responsive layout, cross‑browser compatibility, accessibility, and performance optimization.
• Experience consuming and designing APIs (REST and GraphQL), including Apollo Client and microservices-based architectures.
• Proven experience modeling complex data flows for transactional and integration workflows.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or OCI) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts including caching (Redis, Memcached) and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable, high-performance applications.
• Strong debugging and performance troubleshooting skills, including use of monitoring/observability tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, New Relic).
• Soft Skills: Able to analyze, debug, and troubleshoot complex code problems. Passion for sports and a dedication to creating exceptional fan experiences.
• Technology Evaluation & Communication: Experience evaluating multiple technologies or approaches, making recommendations with pros and cons, and presenting tradeoffs and options to broader engineering or cross‑functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years experience working with LLMs and/or MCP servers/technologies.
• 1+ years experience with AI technologies and processes like vector embeddings.
• 1+ years experience with one or more vector databases (e.g., TurboPuffer, Mongo Atlas).
• Cloud Focus: 5+ years experience working with Cloud technologies (AWS is strongly preferred).
• Frontend Skills: React/Next.js experience with fundamental HTML/CSS (layout, specificity, cross‑browser compatibility).
• Collaboration: Proven experience in cross‑team collaboration for requirements, implementation, and testing.
• Certifications: Cloud certifications (GCP, AWS, OCI).
• AI Tooling & Standards: Experience with AI development tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc.) and with setting up guardrails—rules, commands, sub‑agents—to keep AI-generated code clean, consistent, and production‑ready.
• Theming & Styling: Experience with multiple styling approaches (Stylex, CSS Modules, SASS, CSS-in-JS) and design tokens in component libraries or design system.

What We Offer

• Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here: https://www.paramount.com/careers/benefits
• Generous paid time off.
• An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramount’s most dynamic teams.
• Opportunities for both on‑site and virtual engagement events.
• Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.
• Explore life at Paramount: https://www.paramount.com/careers/life-at-paramount

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on‑screen and off. From the programming and movies we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.

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