Join us and build a streaming platform used by millions.
At Sky Czech Republic, we’re building the tech backbone behind some of the world’s biggest streaming services. Ever heard of Peacock in the US or Sky Showtime across Europe, including the Czech Republic? They all run on our global streaming platform — a shared technological core where each service plugs in its own content and brand.
Our platform serves millions of users worldwide — Peacock alone reaches over 40 million viewers in the US. Thousands of engineers across the globe help shape it, and our Prague tech hub plays a key role. We don’t just keep things running; we actively push the boundaries of streaming technology together with teams in Lisbon, London, and New York.
In Prague, we work across a wide range of engineering domains: frontend development (mobile, TV, and web), backend (Java), platform engineering, content delivery networks, video playback (Golang), and data engineering (Python). Whatever your focus, you’ll work on technology used at truly global scale.
What is the plot?
Our streaming platform is at the forefront of technology, leveraging modern video codecs, adaptive bitrate streaming, low-latency streaming, and support for live streaming. We deliver innovative features to users while ensuring we maintain world-class playback KPIs and streaming standards, regardless of the device or operating system.
The Playback Experience team is building the next generation of observability and KPI automation for our global streaming platform. We want to give teams fast, trustworthy insight into playback quality, release impact and performance regressions at peak event traffic scale.
This is a senior role for someone who wants to be more than an implementer. You will act as a technical counterpart to the Engineering Manager, challenge and improve architectural direction.
What role will you play?
As a Senior Golang Developer, you will provide technical leadership for new telemetry platform
Partner closely with the Engineering Manager as a senior technical counterpart, providing architectural feedback, technical challenges and practical direction.
Shape the architecture of a production-grade internal telemetry platform built around Golang services, analytical storage, resilient messaging and cloud services.
Lead backend design for telemetry ingestion, validation, aggregation, APIs, alerting and dashboard-enabling services.
Build state of the art observability solution for global streaming platform that serves millions
What skills do you need to play your role well?
Senior-level backend engineering experience, including strong production Golang expertise 4+ years
Proven experience designing, building and operating backend or data-processing systems in production.
Strong experience with databases at scale; ClickHouse or another analytical database is a strong plus.
Experience making architectural trade-offs and communicating them clearly to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
Experience with cloud services and modern production environments; AWS, Kubernetes, Docker or similar technologies are valuable.
Strong understanding of reliability, observability, testing, performance and operational concerns in distributed systems.
Ability to mentor engineers, review designs and raise the technical quality of a team.
Comfort working in a domain where requirements evolve and architecture must be shaped through discovery, iteration and stakeholder alignment.
Nice to have
Experience with OpenTelemetry or broader telemetry and observability ecosystems.
Experience with high-volume event ingestion, logs, metrics, traces, analytical pipelines or real-time monitoring systems.
Experience with video streaming, playback quality, QoE/QoS metrics, HLS, DASH or similar media technologies.
Experience with A/B testing platforms, feature flags, statistical comparison, anomaly detection or release-safety automation.
Experience designing alerting strategies and operational guardrails for automated or semi-automated rollback decisions.
Frontend or dashboarding experience is a plus; the core role is backend and platform-focused.
Interest in AI-assisted analytics or agentic data workflows over telemetry data.
What can you expect in return?
Global Impact: Work in an international environment on cutting-edge technology that scales globally.
People-First Culture: We care about our people just as much as we care about the stability of our platform.
Performance Bonuses: Earn an annual bonus based on your performance.
Hybrid Work: Enjoy the best of both worlds with a mix of office and home working.
Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours to help you balance work and life.
25 days of holidays.
5 days of on-demand leave (sick days).
2 days of paid community volunteering leave.
1 day of paid leave for moving house.
Wellbeing Allowance: 18,000 CZK per year to invest in your personal wellbeing.
Fitness Perks: Get a fully covered Multisport card or a 950 CZK monthly contribution to a Benefit Card.
Meal Allowance: 225 CZK per day to keep you fueled.
Premium Life Insurance: Enjoy peace of mind with our premium life insurance scheme.
Fun Perks: Free tickets to Universal Theme Parks.
How do you land the role?
We like to keep our recruitment process simple, transparent, and respectful:
First touch: An open chat with one of our recruiters about your experience, goals, and motivation.
Hiring manager interview: A conversation with your future manager about the role and team.
Technical interview: A chance to demonstrate your skills on real-world problems, no trick questions.
Culture check: discussion with the manager's manager.
Skills Required
- Senior-level backend engineering experience with strong production Golang expertise (4+ years)
- Proven experience designing, building and operating backend or data-processing systems in production
- Strong experience with databases at scale
- Experience making architectural trade-offs and communicating them to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
- Experience with cloud services and modern production environments (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker or similar)
- Strong understanding of reliability, observability, testing, performance and operational concerns in distributed systems
- Ability to mentor engineers, review designs and raise technical quality of a team
- Experience with ClickHouse or other analytical databases
- Experience with OpenTelemetry or telemetry/observability ecosystems
- Experience with high-volume event ingestion, logs, metrics, traces, analytical pipelines or real-time monitoring
- Experience with video streaming technologies and playback quality metrics (HLS, DASH, QoE/QoS)
- Experience with A/B testing platforms, feature flags, anomaly detection or release-safety automation
- Frontend or dashboarding experience
- Interest or experience in AI-assisted analytics or agentic data workflows
What We Do
Sky is one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies and is part of Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company that connects people to moments and experiences that matter. At Sky, we Believe in Better. It’s in our DNA. We’re famous for innovation. We offer the world’s smartest TV, Sky Glass; our plug and play streaming puck, Sky Stream; the best aggregation platform, Sky Q; and streaming services NOW and WOW. We provide connectivity you can count on in mobile, fast, secure, reliable residential and business broadband, as well as smart home protection through Sky Protect. We’re Europe’s premium content producer. We create award-winning original content, produce the biggest live sporting events, and we provide free access to news and the arts. We believe that we can have a positive impact on society, by supporting and creating tens of thousands of jobs, addressing digital inequality, being a diverse and inclusive employer, and becoming net zero carbon by 2030.
