Software Engineer

• Salary: up to £55,000 London Weighting (£5,319) depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights
• Location: Office Base is London, Television Centre. This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe. We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we’re the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.

Our Data Platform Squad plays a pivotal role in empowering the wider business with the data and infrastructure tools needed to drive innovation, insights, and storytelling through data. We build and maintain the foundational technology stack that will underpin our data products, ensuring that teams across BBC Studios can easily and securely access the information they need.

Working closely with other members of the Data Platform Squad, you will create automated and scalable solutions that enable data engineers, analysts, and product teams to seamlessly access and process large volumes of data. This is a hands-on engineering role that involves utilizing a variety of modern technologies and best practices—such as AWS cloud services, Terraform for infrastructure as code, Node.js microservices, and the Snowflake data platform—to deliver reliable, and high-performance data tools and services

Part of the responsibilities will be also:

• Delivering secure, scalable data platform components that improve productivity and reduce friction for data teams
• Proactively monitoring, optimizing, and improving system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Continuously collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and refine the platform’s capabilities
• Ensuring that platform solutions are well-documented, tested, and aligned with best practices in both software engineering and data governance
• Demonstrating a willingness to learn and adapt within a newly created and continuously evolving platform environment.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Strong experience building and maintaining infrastructure on AWS (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, Route 53)
• Strong experience developing backend services using Node.js (TypeScript experience is a plus)
• Demonstrable proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools
• Proven knowledge of SQL and familiarity with relational database concepts
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps best practices.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

• Exposure to other programming languages (e.g. or Python) for data tooling and automation
• Interest or experience in front-end development, particularly in building UIs for internal platforms (e.g., dashboards,) using modern JavaScript frameworks such as React
• Understanding of data governance, security, and compliance standards
• Experience with Snowflake or a similar cloud data warehouse platform.