What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer, Machine Learning position at National Basketball Association (NBA)?
WORK OPTION: Remote
The NBA is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace. To safeguard our employees and their families, our visitors, and the broader community from COVID-19, and in consideration of recommendations from health authorities and the NBA’s own advisors, any individual working onsite in our New York and New Jersey offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The NBA will discuss accommodations for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2023-24 season featured a record 125 international players from 40 countries and territories. NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms. NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness.
Position Summary
The NBA is looking for a software engineer with low latency data processing experience to join a diverse product development team. You will be a part of the team responsible for the ingestion, storage, processing and data science involving the NBA’s basketball statistics. Our team’s primary goals are to maintain the historical statistical records of the NBA and then use that data to build fan-facing products that engage and educate the NBA’s fans across the world. If you want to join a team of hardworking developers who love cloud architectures and data science as much as they love basketball stats, this is the job for you!
Major Responsibilities
Job Posting Title: Manager
We Consider Applicants For All Positions On The Basis Of Merit, Qualifications And Business Needs, And Without Regard To Race, Color, National Origin, Religion, Sex, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Alienage Or Citizenship Status, Ancestry, Marital Status, Creed, Genetic Predisposition Or Carrier Status, Sexual Orientation, Veteran Status, Familial Status, Status As A Victim Of Domestic Violence Or Any Other Status Or Characteristic Protected By Applicable Federal, State, Or Local Law.
The NBA is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace. To safeguard our employees and their families, our visitors, and the broader community from COVID-19, and in consideration of recommendations from health authorities and the NBA’s own advisors, any individual working onsite in our New York and New Jersey offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The NBA will discuss accommodations for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2023-24 season featured a record 125 international players from 40 countries and territories. NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms. NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness.
Position Summary
The NBA is looking for a software engineer with low latency data processing experience to join a diverse product development team. You will be a part of the team responsible for the ingestion, storage, processing and data science involving the NBA’s basketball statistics. Our team’s primary goals are to maintain the historical statistical records of the NBA and then use that data to build fan-facing products that engage and educate the NBA’s fans across the world. If you want to join a team of hardworking developers who love cloud architectures and data science as much as they love basketball stats, this is the job for you!
Major Responsibilities
- Work as a part of a software development team to contribute to current product development projects involving data and basketball statistics.
- Develop high-throughput, low-latency data processing systems to ingest, process and deliver data
- Establish best practices and scalable workflows crafted to handle the demanding nature of processing and analyzing complex data from a high volume of games in real-time.
- Integrate data processing infrastructure with other data/software systems.
- Contribute to data science infrastructure that generates insights from player tracking data.
- Contribute to full stack cloud-based development projects that help to build the NBA's next generation of automated officiating initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Math, Computer Science, Data Science or related field.
- Proven experience building production systems for high-throughput, low-latency data processing.
- Experience or strong understanding of Kubernetes' core components is a plus.
- Experience building the infrastructure to deploy AI/ML models at scale within a consumer-facing application.
- Experience building hybrid cloud/on-prem software systems is a plus.
- Experience with the infrastructure required to deploy ML applications based on computer vision is a plus.
- Experience with data science, statistical analysis, data wrangling, and/or data processing is a plus.
- Experience with API management / gateway tools like Apigee, Kong, Gravitee or equivalent with the knowledge of API mashups, analytics, developer networks and security is a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. You are comfortable discussing sophisticated topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Extensive software development experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, C , Go, Java, C#, SQL
- Ability to craft and implement maintainable APIs. Previous experience in building API platforms or products for developers.
- Committed to write clean code with accurate unit test coverage.
- Willing to support live game processing and comfortable with on-call rotations.
- Strong understanding of NBA basketball and NBA statistics is a plus.
- Display an aptitude for taking initiative to go above and beyond!
- You are comfortable working on a new product under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations!
- Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
Job Posting Title: Manager
We Consider Applicants For All Positions On The Basis Of Merit, Qualifications And Business Needs, And Without Regard To Race, Color, National Origin, Religion, Sex, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Alienage Or Citizenship Status, Ancestry, Marital Status, Creed, Genetic Predisposition Or Carrier Status, Sexual Orientation, Veteran Status, Familial Status, Status As A Victim Of Domestic Violence Or Any Other Status Or Characteristic Protected By Applicable Federal, State, Or Local Law.
Salary : $130,000 - $160,000
