Are you passionate about revolutionizing the digital experience for Major League Baseball fans? Join our team as a Principal Services Engineer focusing on Go, Kubernetes, Kotlin, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As a Tech Lead, you will play a dual role, leading the design and development of robust and scalable API services for our Mobile Platform while guiding and mentoring a team of engineers. You'll be a key member of our technology team, shaping the future of our digital platforms, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and collaboration, with a specific focus on supporting mobile app development through the development of robust APIs and Infrastructure. 

Responsibilities

• System Architecture:
• Design a robust and scalable API service system architecture addressing scalability, maintainability, reliability, and flexibility.
• Lead and guide the team in collaborative efforts, considering components that enable transparency and minimal configuration for feature teams.
• Scalability:
• Implement horizontal scaling strategies by deploying multiple instances of microservices to handle increased load.
• Utilize load balancing mechanisms for distributing incoming requests evenly across instances.
• Implement MultiRegion strategies for enhanced availability.
• Caching Mechanisms:
• Integrate caching mechanisms (e.g., Redis, Memcached) to improve response times and reduce load on backend services.
• Implement cloud caching mechanisms, such as Cloudflare or Fastly.
• Authentication and Authorization:
• Implement robust authentication and authorization mechanisms to secure API services.
• Mobile App Support:
• Collaborate closely with mobile app development teams to ensure seamless integration with API services.
• Optimize API services for mobile app performance and responsiveness.
• Implement support for Server-Driven UI to enhance dynamic content delivery.
• Integrate push notification support for timely and engaging user updates.
• Logging and Monitoring:
• Lead the incorporation of centralized logging for effective debugging and monitoring.
• Guide the integration of monitoring tools like Google Cloud Monitoring, Datadog, or Grafana to track performance metrics and detect issues proactively.
• Error Handling, Resilience, and Fault Tolerance:
• Design comprehensive error-handling mechanisms with informative error codes and messages.
• Implement circuit breakers and retries to enhance system resilience against transient failures.
• Lead efforts in promoting self-healing mechanisms wherever feasible.
• Documentation:
• Lead the creation of thorough and accessible API documentation using tools like Swagger or OpenAPI.
• Include code examples and clear guidelines to facilitate easy adoption by other development teams.
• Versioning:
• Plan for API versioning to support backward compatibility and smooth transitions during updates.
• Collaborate with peers to ensure support for versioned APIs.
• Collaboration and Community Support:
• Foster a community around the API by establishing communication channels like forums, chat, or dedicated support.
• Enable other teams to work independently and collaboratively.
• Support: 
• Provide on call support on a rotating basis 
• Cost Management:
• Track monthly costs associated with API services.
• Accurately forecast costs on a quarterly and yearly basis.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in designing and implementing scalable API service architectures.
• Proficiency in Go, Kubernetes, Kotlin, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong background in cloud technologies and caching mechanisms.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, and security best practices.
• Expertise in logging, monitoring, error handling, and resilience strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to architect resilient systems capable of withstanding and recovering from failures.
• Demonstrated ability to create comprehensive and user-friendly API documentation.
• Experience in versioning APIs and supporting backward compatibility.
• Excellent communication skills to foster collaboration and community support.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to track and forecast costs for API services.
• Leadership skills with the ability to mentor and guide a team of engineers.
• Experience in supporting mobile app development and optimizing API services for mobile platforms.
• Familiarity with Server-Driven UI concepts for dynamic content delivery.
• Experience in integrating push notification support for timely and engaging user updates.

If you are ready to make an impact in the world of sports technology and thrive in a dynamic and collaborative environment, we invite you to join our team and lead the way in delivering an exceptional digital experience for MLB fans throughout the world.

Per the NYC pay transparency law, the hiring range for this position is $185,000 to $215,000.

 
Why MLB? 

Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of opportunity, collaboration, and professionalism. The professionals who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify and solve problems, put the team first, and work collaboratively. For those who are ready to join the “Major Leagues” of their careers, MLB takes the same approach as they do with their players: striving to empower their own “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are ready to step up to the plate and continue transforming America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come. 

MLB’s vision is to be the global sport of choice for youth to play, fans of all backgrounds to enjoy and a desired destination for employment. 

With a belief that the journey to growth and greatness is ongoing, MLB gives employees the opportunity to continue learning and honing their skills with programs such as: tuition reimbursement; mentorship programs; lunch and learns; online course subscriptions; paid industry certifications; business resource groups; and more. 

MLB provides its employees with exceptional medical, dental, and vision coverage. Premiums are 100% employer covered to help employees focus on being their best! 

Are you ready to Step Up to the Plate? Apply below! 

If you are interested in joining our team and require a reasonable accommodation to assist with any part of the application and/or interview process, please contact us by email at: accommodations@mlb.com