Nielsen Tech Stack

Global audience measurement and media analytics across broadcast, streaming, and digital

Software Development New York, NY 10,001+ employees Public Company

Nielsen is a 10,000+ person public company operating audience measurement and analytics infrastructure across 55+ countries. The tech stack reflects a mature, data-heavy org: Kafka and Spark for streaming pipelines, Hadoop/Hive for batch processing, MongoDB and DynamoDB for flexible storage, and Tableau for analytics consumption. The hiring surge (135 roles posted in the last 30 days, accelerating) concentrates in sales (70 open) and data (54 open), paired with active projects around streaming pipeline development (Flink, Kafka, Kinesis) and Gracenote platform work—indicating a push to modernize legacy measurement infrastructure while expanding into streaming and direct-to-client adoption.

Tech Stack 182 technologies

Core StackSalesforce ServiceNow AWS Tableau Apache Spark Scala Python MySQL MongoDB DynamoDB GitLab Bitbucket Kafka Hadoop Docker Kubernetes Terraform CloudFormation App Engine Microsoft Office Gracenote Netflix Hulu iTunes SPSS R SQL DocumentDB Hive Pig+143 more

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What Nielsen Is Building

◆Challenges

Timely delivery
Automation opportunities
Ensuring data accuracy and throughput
Low adoption of advanced solutions
Increasing adoption of measurement products
Optimizing legacy data pipelines
Scaling performance quality
M&a integration
Commercial transformation
Structuring complex tv entertainment data

▲Active Projects

Process automation initiatives
Nielsen/google partnership
Gracenote data platform
Streaming pipeline development with flink, kafka, kinesis
Commercial strategy development for assigned vertical
Flagship metadata software solutions
Nielsen one adoption
Cross-system integration
Audience measurement enterprise portfolio
Survey data integration into software tools

Hiring Activity

Accelerating280 roles · 140 in 30d

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Finance

Product

Marketing

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Senior

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Notable leadership hires: Sales Director, Lead Engineer, Demand Generation Director, Social Media Director, SAP Analytics Cloud Lead

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About Nielsen

Nielsen provides global audience measurement, data insights, and analytics to media companies, broadcasters, streaming platforms, advertisers, and agencies. The company operates across television, radio, online, music, video games, sports, and streaming—collecting behavioral data across channels to produce audience reports and commercial intelligence. With operations spanning 55+ countries and a workforce exceeding 10,000, Nielsen maintains both traditional broadcast measurement capabilities and emerging platforms like Nielsen One and Gracenote (a metadata and content recognition business). Active work includes streaming pipeline modernization, cross-system data integration, and commercial strategy execution across vertical markets.

HeadquartersNew York, NY

Company Size10,001+ employees

Hiring MarketsPhilippines, Japan, Netherlands, United States, India, South Korea, Jordan, Canada

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Nielsen's tech stack?

Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Scala, Python for data pipelines; MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL for storage; Tableau for analytics; Salesforce and ServiceNow for business systems; AWS, Kubernetes, Docker for infrastructure.

What is Nielsen working on?

Streaming pipeline development (Flink, Kafka, Kinesis), Gracenote data platform expansion, Nielsen One adoption, cross-system data integration, legacy pipeline optimization, survey tool integration, and metadata software solutions for TV entertainment data.