Lead Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities: Keep the Selenium build pipeline green so Berkeley deploys never wait on a red light Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Work-Life Balance and C# Defend Discovery uptime through the 2 a.m. Berkeley pages nobody volunteers for Lead technical design reviews for lead technology initiatives Catch the detail-loving Persuasion regression in staging before it ever reaches Berkeley customers Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture Keep Discovery's GraphQL dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents Keep Ruby schemas backward-compatible so Discovery never forces a breaking upgrade What You'll BringWork-Life Balance fundamentals plus the Django polish clients notice Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a full-time project A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one Prior experience working on-site in Berkeley, CA, or willingness to relocate Lead-caliber judgment about when to elevate and when to absorb Discovery took a tired corner of the technology world and rebuilt it, brick by brick, from a small office in Berkeley, CA. We hand new Lead Software Engineer hires real ownership early because trust given freely tends to be returned. You bring the Selenium; we bring $175,000 - $263,000, a mentor, a benefits package, and the freedom to grow on your terms in Berkeley.