Senior Software Engineer
Location: Seattle or Canada
Contract: Full time
Workstation: Remote/Hybrid
Who You Are:
You’re a generalist at heart, but with deep technical expertise. You’re comfortable working across the stack—one day, you’re debugging a tricky SQL query, the next, you’re tweaking a Kubernetes deployment in AWS. You know when to optimize for performance and when to optimize for maintainability. You care deeply about building resilient, scalable systems, and you take pride in delivering software that just works.
A mindset for automation, scalability, and reliability The ability to see the big picture—how everything fits together Pragmatism—you know when to go deep and when to move fast A love for clean, maintainable code and a well-structured system
You don’t just write code—you solve problems
Your Next Challenge:- Build and maintain applications written in Ruby on Rails, React and Typescript
- A mindset for automation, scalability, and reliability
- The ability to see the big picture—how everything fits together Pragmatism—you know when to go deep and when to move fast
- A love for clean, maintainable code and a well-structured system
- Maintain existing infrastructure in AWS through Terraform
- Work with Kubernetes to manage and scale our applications
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of features—from design to deployment
- Optimize performance where it matters and refactor where it makes sense
- Identify and reduce technical debt before it becomes a problem
- Collaborate with the team to continuously improve our processes and systems
What You'll Need- 5+ years' experience in any of the following TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, React
- 3+ year's hands-on experience with AWS services and infrastructure
- A demonstrated deep understanding of Kubernetes and containerized deployments
- A mindset for automation, scalability, and reliability
- The ability to see the big picture—how everything fits together
- Pragmatism—you know when to go deep and when to move fast
- A love for clean, maintainable code and a well-structured system
The Technology team develops, protects, maintains, and manages the websites, systems, and tools our customers and employees depend on.
There’s a story in every picture, a narrative in every frame.
We believe in the power of visuals. As a leading visual content creator, our three brands–Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash–offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer, whatever their size, location, or budget. Whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving, our visuals help any brand, business, or organization communicate more effectively with their target audience and urge them to action. In other words, we know how powerful an image or video can be—and that it can move the world.
Working at Getty Images
Our goal is to be one of the best places to work globally, which means we’re dedicated to providing experiences and resources that allow you to do your best work. Foundational to our culture are our Leadership Principles, which are the shared values that guide how we come together to do our work. We raise the bar and collectively bring solutions while exercising trust, transparency, and care. We actively reject biased behavior and are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences. We focus on our customers and deliver on our commitments and commercial goals.
We foster a collaborative and supportive environment that prioritizes delivering results efficiently and using time wisely, so that all employees can achieve balance between commitments to the company and health and well-being in our lives. We value the importance of rest and recovery ranging from company-paid holidays to time away from work. Our flexible time off policy is above industry standard. We offer premier benefits with options including above-market competitive medical, dental, vision, health plan savings accounts, life and disability plans, global employee assistance programs, legal, pet, home, and auto coverage at preferential group rates and discounts, as well as retirement and financial education and tools. Full-time employees working at least 25 hours per week are eligible for these programs and health benefits on the 1st of the month following their date of hire.
Getty Images Holdings, Inc is a publicly traded company, and its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GETY". You may be eligible to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan, which allows employees to purchase company stock at a 15% discount to market.
Our employees’ growth, development, belonging, and engagement are important investments. We offer learning experiences ranging from leadership development, diversity and inclusion training, mentoring programs, a high potential program, and professional and skills development. We prioritize staying connected in our hybrid-working world and encourage participation in global morale events and local gatherings, as well as finding community in one or more of our Employee Resource Groups. Learning about our business is paramount, and our open and transparent culture means you’ll have direct access to experts and senior leaders via open forums, all hands, and content hours.
Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. Getty Images is an equal-opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
The starting salary range for this position at the time of posting is USD $103,500 to USD $149,000 per annum. Getty Images has different ranges in different locations within the US, and this range represents the starting base pay range. Actual compensation will depend on factors including but not limited to: qualifications, geographic location, skills, experience, certification, business needs, performance, and level of responsibility along with the requirements of the position. The company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any point in the future. Getty Images is committed to the health and well-being of its employees and benefits for full-time permanent employees may include participation in the company incentive program, equity, and benefits package which is inclusive of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid company holidays and time off, and paid parental leave. Visit our career site to learn more about our career opportunities and Diversity & Inclusion commitments. 
