Comcast shapes the future at the intersection of media and technology. Comcast provides one of the kind entertainment platform, High Speed Data platform, and Internet of Things services including Home Security services. We create world-class experiences that people love and trust and drive innovation that builds value. We bring millions TV and entertainment, sports and news, communications and home management, theme parks, home security, Voice, and high speed Internet access. Comcast brings to life the best of what’s to come. Comcast brings Entertainment, Internet, Voice, and other services to the customers via the largest footprint of networks in the country. 20M+ OnDemad video are streamed dailiy, 8200 Video and Audio Channels are srtreamed daily across the country, 167M+ phone calls are made and 153M messages are send daily on our network. Comcast supports more than 800K route miles or network pipeline.

Are you passionate about digital media, entertainment, and software services? Do you like big challenges and working within a highly motivated team environment? As a senior software engineer on the Service Platform Acceleration and Cloud Engineering (SPACE) team, you will contribute to the design and implementation of a modern software control plane to manage our vast deployments of compute, network and storage infrastructure.

The SPACE team is a new, small and fast-moving group of world-class experts who are innovating in delivering software-defined infrastructure services and platforms. We are a team that thrives on big challenges, results, quality, and agility.

SPACE engineers are closely aligned with cloud architects and product teams to ensure our products and services consistently meet customer demands. The SPACE team is a diverse collection of software engineers, systems administrators, network administrators, automation developers, and site reliability engineers from all walks of life. We’re a group of experienced technical minds who are the last word when it comes to solving problems encountered by our production support teams.

You’ll be working with the best and brightest minds in Comcast to help build and deploy a software control plane that leverages data from utilization, cost, latency, data sensitivity and other factors to automatically orchestrate workloads across multiple public and private clouds. Success in this role is characterized by an economy of scale for our platform and infrastructure services and reduction of overall operations costs.

The Task:

Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Design, develop, test, debug and document new and existing software and or applications for real-times communication services.
  • Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and business requirements
  • Evaluate new and emerging technologies for implementation.
  • Create platform and other application prototypes quickly.
  • Contribute to and respond to peer code reviews as needed
  • Write code to create robust and scalable applications.
  • Strong technical expertise and troubleshooting skills for large scale enterprise systems and software.
  • Minimal conceptual, logical and physical data modeling with data modeling tools and database design in complex, large-scale data environments.
  • MS in Computer Science or similar degree with significant industry experience
  • Extensive experience designing and building sophisticated software products
  • Demonstrated production-level software development skills
  • Experience in usability engineering and user interface design
  • Experience in software product marketing, collateral design, logo design, and branding
  • Demonstrated ability to conceive, manage, and complete software deliverables
  • Linux systems administration skills, across distributions, and especially in a cloud or virtualized environment
  • Understanding of IP networking and traffic scaling
  • Experience with agile development methodologies, rapid application development, and project management
  • Proven ability to design and present understandable and practical solutions to complex problems
  • Demonstrated leadership skills in a fast-paced, team-driven environment
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including visual presentation skills
  • Demonstrated experience in research data collection, analysis, and presentation
  • Experience with intellectual property portfolio management, especially patents and trademarks
  • Ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
  • Ability to travel when needed; expected travel is 5-25%
  • At least 15 years experience in a software engineering role
  • Expert at server-side application development, including Go, C/C++, and Java; related libraries and toolkits
  • Expert at script language development, including Python, Node.js, and Perl
  • Expert at Web application development including JavaScript/CSS/HTML, Angular, BootStrap, and JQuery
  • Proficient with data structuring languages, including XML, JSON, and design of binary data formats
  • Experience creating and managing projects in revision control, including git and github
  • Experience with automated testing and performance tools, including JMeter
  • Experience with large-scale distributed infrastructures, including technologies for clustering and load balancing
  • Understanding of distributed capacity management
  • Understanding of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA and REST), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)
  • Experience implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools and systems
  • Specific experience with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Deep understanding of HTTP, TCP, DNS, UDP, IPv4/IPv6 networking and protocols
  • Understanding of network database and storage technologies including NoSQL, NAS, and object stores
  • Understanding of unattended installation and configuration technologies including PXE and Foreman
  • Experience with Agile, including Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming
  • Understanding software development in a DevOps culture
  • Proponent of open source software licenses
  • Ability and desire to mentor engineers, technologists, and managers