Senior Software Engineer, Site Performance
Core
Enhancing loading times, responsiveness, and overall speed of CNN's news and media platform through code optimization, asset management, and infrastructure tuning.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Site Performance)
Builds
High-performance web pages and scalable media delivery infrastructure for CNN
Domain
Media & Entertainment / Web Performance Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Modern JavaScript (ES6/7), asynchronous JavaScript, performance monitoring tools, code architecture review, data structures and algorithms, AWS usage
Preferred skills
Experience with Datadog or New Relic, Agile methodologies, cross-functional collaboration
Technologies
JavaScript, AWS, Datadog, New Relic
Responsibilities
Optimize site performance focusing on speed, responsiveness, and scalability; Identify and address bottlenecks in code, databases, and infrastructure; Implement monitoring and analytics tools to track performance metrics; Contribute to code and architecture reviews to define engineering standards
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
