Join us and build a streaming platform used by millions.
At Sky Czech Republic,we’rebuilding 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. Wedon’tjust 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, releaseimpactand 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 GolangDeveloper, you will provide technical leadership for new telemetry platform
Partner closely with the Engineering Manager as a senior technical counterpart, providing architectural feedback, technicalchallengesand practical direction.
Shape the architecture of a production-grade internal telemetry platform built around Golang services, analytical storage, resilientmessagingand cloud services.
Lead backend design for telemetry ingestion, validation, aggregation, APIs,alertingand dashboard-enabling services.
Buildstate of the artobservability 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 Golangexpertise4+ years
Proven experience designing,buildingandoperatingbackend or data-processing systems in production.
Strong experience with databases at scale;ClickHouseor 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,Dockeror similar technologies are valuable.
Strong understanding of reliability, observability, testing,performanceand operational concerns in distributed systems.
Ability to mentor engineers, reviewdesignsand raise the technical quality of a team.
Comfort working in a domain where requirementsevolveand architecture must be shaped through discovery,iterationand stakeholder alignment.
Nice to have
Experience withOpenTelemetryor broader telemetry and observability ecosystems.
Experience with high-volume event ingestion, logs, metrics, traces, analyticalpipelinesor real-time monitoring systems.
Experience with video streaming, playback quality,QoEQoS metrics, HLS,DASHor similar media technologies.
Experience with A/B testing platforms, feature flags, statistical comparison, anomalydetectionor 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 andplatform-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 youfueled
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.
Sky connects and entertains millions of people across Europe. At the heart of everything we do, is a belief that people deserve better. For decades, we’ve shaken up every category we entered to give people what they love, to make life a little easier and to provide great value. That’s how we bring millions of customers the joy of a better experience in TV, broadband and mobile.
In TV, we offer the best sports coverage, unmissable TV and the smartest ways to stream and aggregate the TV you love. In broadband, we power homes and businesses, with a fast, reliable connection. In mobile, we bring people closer, with plans at unbeatable value. And now, you can even keep your home connected and protected, through our smart insurance. We design our products to fit seamlessly into your life, with service whenever and however you need it.
That’s how we do better for customers. And we believe in better for society too. We power the cultural economy in the UK and beyond, making award-winning news, original sport, and entertainment. We contribute billions to UK GDP, creating and sustaining thousands of jobs and sharing both our journalism and our coverage of the arts, free of charge. We are cutting emissions and making recyclable, energy-efficient products, and we give back, through free internet access and digital skills for under-served communities and young people.
Sky is owned by Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company.
