Principal Engineer (Lead Engineer)

About TEGNA

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) is an innovative media company that serves the greater good of our communities. Across platforms, TEGNA tells empowering stories, conducts impactful investigations and delivers innovative marketing solutions. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA is the largest owner of top 4 network affiliates in the top 25 markets among independent station groups, reaching approximately 39 percent of all television households nationwide. TEGNA also owns leading multicast networks True Crime Network and Quest. TEGNA Marketing Solutions (TMS) offers innovative solutions to help businesses reach consumers across television, digital and over-the-top (OTT) platforms, including Premion, TEGNA’s OTT advertising service. For more information, visit www.TEGNA.com.

 

 

Premion is currently looking for a Full-Stack Engineer, Senior Lead. Launched in 2016 by TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA), Premion is an industry-leading premium CTV/OTT advertising platform for regional and local advertisers. Gray Television, Inc. acquired a minority stake in Premion in 2020. With directly sourced inventory from 125+ premium publishers, Premion delivers transparency and brand safety, making it easy for advertisers to target and reach engaged audiences at scale. A 15-time CTV industry award-winner, Premion was recognized in 2024 with the Digiday Media Award for Best Use of Audience Insights. In 2023, Premion was awarded the Advanced Advertising Innovation Award for Best Use of Data, the Cynopsis Measure Up Award for Outstanding Brand Safety Strategy, and the ITVT Award for Achievement in Advanced Advertising. The Company has earned the TAG Certified Against Fraud Seal and the TAG Brand Safety Certified Seal from the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG). For more information, visit www.premion.com.

 

Location: CA, NYC, DC

 

Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement high-performance, low-latency event-driven systems for real-time applications, with a focus on scalability and fault tolerance.
• Design and optimize distributed architectures for complex event processing, ensuring sub-millisecond response times and high throughput.
• Lead the development of scalable microservices, integrating event sourcing and other patterns for data consistency and system resilience.
• Optimize runtime performance, including memory management, concurrency, and I/O operations, to meet stringent performance requirements.
• Design polyglot persistence solutions, balancing SQL and NoSQL technologies for efficient data storage and retrieval in high-volume environments.
• Implement real-time analytics and reporting systems, focusing on meaningful insights for business stakeholders and operational teams.
• Architect and develop machine learning pipelines for predictive algorithms, integrating them into real-time data flows.
• Design multi-region, globally distributed systems that ensure data consistency and low latency across geographies.
• Develop advanced monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions focusing on key performance indicators and business metrics.
• Architect data lake and data warehouse solutions for large-scale analytics on historical data, balancing performance, and cost-effectiveness.
• Lead the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code practices, ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments across environments.
• Implement and optimize container orchestration strategies, ensuring efficient resource utilization and auto-scaling based on demand.
• Design and implement robust data governance and compliance solutions, addressing regulatory requirements in data-intensive systems.
• Develop advanced caching and data access strategies to minimize latency and improve system responsiveness.
• Conduct system design reviews and performance audits, providing actionable recommendations for improving scalability and efficiency.

 

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, with 10+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years in architect-level roles.
• Strong command over at least one of Java, Python, or Go, with the ability to write high-performance, production-grade code.
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing large-scale, distributed event-driven systems with a focus on high performance and low latency.
• Extensive experience with real-time data processing, streaming architectures, and microservices design patterns.
• Strong background in database technologies (both SQL and NoSQL) and data modeling for high-volume, real-time applications.
• Demonstrated ability to architect and optimize globally distributed systems, including multi-region deployments and data consistency strategies.
• Proficiency in cloud technologies (such as AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience with Big Data technologies (e.g., Hadoop ecosystem, Spark, Kafka).

Benefits: 

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.

Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.

Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.

TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year. 

* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.

EEO statement:

TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email askhr@tegna.com 

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Recruiters or Hiring Managers will never request payments, ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers. If you are unsure if a message is from TEGNA, please email askhr@tegna.com.