Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Comcast - Philadelphia, PA

Comcast’s Technology, Product & Experience organization works at the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the customer experience. From creating apps like TVGo to new features such as the Talking Guide on the X1 platform, we work every day to make a positive impact through innovation in the pursuit of building amazing products that are enjoyable, easy to use and accessible across all platforms. The team also develops and supports our evolving network architecture, including next-generation consumer systems and technologies, infrastructure and engineering, network integration and management tools, and technical standards. Because our employees are our most valuable asset, we offer a flexible working environment to balance the need to work independently wherever you choose, with days that require collaboration at one of our offices. Our roles primarily reside inside or around one of our Tech Hubs (Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs, Denver, Austin, Silicon Valley, Washington DC/N. Virginia).

Job Summary

Comcast’s DevX organization is seeking a Senior Engineer to join our DevX: Run team.This group is responsible fordeveloping tools and platforms that are used by engineering teams across CXT to enhance customer experiences of ourxFi (broadband), Entertainment, AI and Xfinity Home Security product offerings.We are a team of engineers that both build and support high-availability platforms for use by Comcast engineering and product teams. Some of our platforms include experimentation and feature flagging,Chaos Engineering SaaS platform, a multiplatform API Gateway for ingress management with complementing multi-datacenter service mesh, and a log ingest transformation and routing platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a leader, a contributor, and enjoy working on cutting edge technology stacks that positively impact the daily lives of millions of Comcast customers!

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Work with engineering team, product, and user experience to understand new requirements.
• Refine and estimate new deliverables.
• Implement new application programming interfaces, backend services, front-end user interface components, and automation tasks to specification provided with the assistance of senior team members.
• Understand platform usage and assist with production deployments and customer issue triage.
• Design and develop highly available and scalable applications that can be hosted on cloud platforms.
• Design web applications that take can function with interruptions in connectivity.
• Design and develop security features as part of the development and embrace the DevSecOps culture.
• Create tools to identify and mitigate the production incidents within the defined MTTR (Mean Time To Recover) key performance indicator.
• Create re-usable web components that can be leveraged by multiple teams, where needed.
• Create self-contained microservices or application programming interfaces to support the business logic.
• Use content management systems as applicable and global design patterns and defined coding standards and practices established by the team.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to identify product and technical requirements.
• Work closely with the architects and DevOps Engineers to define the functional and technical requirements.
• Create insights for managers to track business and operational metrics.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.

JobRequirements:

• Ability to manage rapidly shifting priorities and dependencies
• Development and design of systems, with a focus on automation and maintainability at a large scale
• Develop software infrastructure and build tools useful in development lifecycle
• Should have participated in, and be familiar with, Agile (Scrum) project methodology and practices
• Take high-level design decisions from team and turn them into reality that solves customer issues
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand business requirements, propose reference architectures, and possible technology solutions. Must be capable of presenting options and weigh implementation.

Technical Skills:

• 8 +years of scripting & development language experience in either Bash, Go or Python.
• 3+years of experience with automation software using Ansible , HashiCorp stack and Python
• 3+years of experience with monitoring systems (e.g. Grafana/InfluxDB, , Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.)
• 3+years of experience building tools for automation (building, testing, releasing, monitoring and alarming)
• 4+years of experience with IaaS and PaaS providers such as AWS, OpenStack, VMWare etc.
• 3+ years of experience in Linux command Line, system Administration and good hands-on installing software on Linux platforms.
• Understanding of containers technologies like Docker, Fargate, ECS or Kubernetes. Hands-on experience with building and running containers on one of these platforms is a plus
• Some networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP, Firewalls, traffic shaping, and load balancing)
• Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment processes and tools such as Jenkins, Concourse etc.
• Experience with deploying and operating infrastructure running micro services based platforms.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

7-10 Years

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.