Principle Software Engineer - Data & AI

Comcast • West, TX

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About The Position

The Data & AI group (D&A) is part of Comcast Cable’s Technology & Product (T&P) organization and provides a powerful data ingest and processing platform, serving major groups across the company. In this role, you will lead a key innovation in the control plane of our data pipelines platform, which will allow workloads to be shifted between infrastructure environments both on-premise and in the cloud. You will also work with other talented engineers to build new high-volume services and features, provide architectural designs, and manage production infrastructure. Comcast T&P encourages career development with regular opportunities for training and programs for innovative cross-team projects such as week-long Hackathon and job rotation programs over the summer.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field
• 8+ years of development experience with Java or Golang
• Production experience with Kubernetes infrastructure setup and usage required
• Extensive AWS cloud services and infrastructure experience required
• Expertise with Docker images required
• Experience developing and managing production backend services
• Strong error handling habits and experience with monitoring tools desired
• Experience with continuous integration, test-driven-development, automated unit and integration testing
• Hands-on experience developing RESTful web services desired
• Experience using GIT versioning tool required
• Experience with agile development methodologies and practices (refactoring, TDD, pair programming)
• UNIX/Linux background: BASH scripting and performance analysis
• Experience with various data interchange and representation formats such as JSON, XML, Avro, and Protobuf

Nice To Haves

• Python experience desired
• Experience with distributed messaging (Kinesis, Kafka) desired
• Experience with SQL, noSQL databases (Redis / Elastic Search / DynamoDB) desired

Responsibilities

• Building production-quality services and platform features for high volume data processing with a sound, reliable architecture
• Monitoring platform services
• Writing production-quality, tested code.
• Ownership of code, responsibility for balancing functionality, efficiency, development time and readability, as well as robustness
• Producing technical designs and documentation at varying levels of granularity
• Collaborating with our quality assurance and technical operations teams to provide outstanding customer service
• Resisting the accrual of “technical debt” in our systems.
• Building proof-of-concept applications or conducting research experiments
• Staying educated on technical developments and tools necessary for the design and maintenance of complex, distributed platforms.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees