About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Entertainment Providers.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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What You’ll Do

Confidential client’s Concepts Lab hires Senior Software Engineers who can take validated experiments into production and embed with delivery teams to hand off supported, documented systems.

• Build and ship production-quality services that graduate from lab experiments into long-term teams.
• Embed directly with delivery teams, working in their repositories, CI/CD, and release processes for the duration of each engagement.
• Own production health during an engagement: monitoring, security patching, dependency upgrades, runbooks, and incident follow-through.
• Design and implement reliable deployment paths for internal experimental environments so the team can stand up new experiments quickly and safely.
• Drive engineering standards for testing, observability, cost management, security, and code quality.
• Lead clean handoffs: documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer so receiving teams can operate services long-term.
• Mentor engineers and contractors, participate in hiring, and help shape engineering practices across the lab.

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Who You Are (must-have)

• 8+ years building and operating production software systems.
• Proven system design experience across components and API/service boundaries with attention to failure modes and mitigation.
• Production-grade experience writing Python and/or TypeScript in code other engineers adopted.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing.
• Operational ownership experience: runbooks, diagnostics, and post-incident follow-through.
• Comfortable in ambiguous, early-stage environments—able to decide when to prototype fast vs. build for longevity.
• Practical use of AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate delivery while ensuring correctness and production safety.

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Nice to Have

• Experience in media, streaming, or gaming.
• Prior work in an innovation lab, incubation environment, or R&D organization.
• Familiarity with agentic coding frameworks (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) across development cycles.

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Team & Culture

Confidential client’s Concepts Lab is an R&D and incubation group focused on testing new experiences and technologies. The lab moves in short cycles: experiments are validated quickly and, when successful, transitioned to delivery teams with a full engineering handoff. You’ll work closely with product and business partners and be part of a small team where your work and standards have visible, lasting impact.

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Compensation & Benefits

Pay transparency — Los Angeles, CA

• Base salary: $183,400 — $229,200 USD (actual pay varies by experience and other factors)
• Competitive total rewards package may include performance bonus potential, 401(k) match, comprehensive health benefits, flexible time off, parental support programs, commuter benefits, and additional perks.

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Location & Employment Type

• On-site in Los Angeles, CA
• Employment type: Full-time

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Why Work Here (brief)

Join a fast-moving Concepts Lab where engineers ship production systems from experiments, set standards that propagate across teams, and directly influence product and engineering direction at scale.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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