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The Role
Leads the architecture, administration, engineering, and strategic evolution of enterprise Hadoop-based data platforms. Owns cluster lifecycle, scalability, reliability, security, disaster recovery, monitoring, optimization, upgrades, and operational standards. Troubleshoots distributed systems, supports data ingestion and governance, guides hybrid cloud strategies, documents platform operations, and mentors engineering teams. The role also develops data views, exports, and automated processing while collaborating with data engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams.
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This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Charter is proud to have a network that provides service to millions of customers across the US. The Network Engineering team is responsible for the implementation of approved network architecture and designs. Under limited supervision, this Principal Engineer position leads the architecture, engineering, administration, and strategic evolution of our Hadoop-based big data platform. This role is responsible for defining the technical direction of the enterprise data ecosystem, ensuring platform scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on expertise in Hadoop administration with strong architecture leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to mentor engineering teams.
How You'll Make an Impact
Working Conditions
What You'll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education
Experience
Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Education
Skills
#LI-CEB
EGN601 2026-86154 EGN601 2026
Here, our employees don't just have jobs, they're building careers. That's why we offer a comprehensive package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant's criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2026-11-03 05:00 AM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between
$110,800.00 and $196,400.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
Get to Know Us Spectrum is a suite of advanced communications services offered by Charter Communications, the leading broadband and video company in the nation and the fastest growing mobile provider in its footprint, with services available to more than 70 million homes and small to large businesses across 45 states. When you join our team, you'll be keeping customers connected to Seamless Connectivity and Entertainment with Spectrum Internet®, Mobile, TV and Voice products.
Grow Your Career Here We're committed to growing a workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve - providing opportunities for employment and advancement to all team members. Spectrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including job seekers with disabilities and veterans.
Charter is proud to have a network that provides service to millions of customers across the US. The Network Engineering team is responsible for the implementation of approved network architecture and designs. Under limited supervision, this Principal Engineer position leads the architecture, engineering, administration, and strategic evolution of our Hadoop-based big data platform. This role is responsible for defining the technical direction of the enterprise data ecosystem, ensuring platform scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on expertise in Hadoop administration with strong architecture leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to mentor engineering teams.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Owns the architecture, design, and lifecycle management of enterprise Hadoop clusters and supporting data platform services.
- Leads administration of Hadoop ecosystem components such as HDFS, YARN, Hive, HBase, Spark, Kafka, Oozie, ZooKeeper, Impala, and related tooling.
- Defines platform standards for availability, performance, capacity planning, disaster recovery, backup, monitoring, and security.
- Drives infrastructure optimization across storage, compute, workload management, and job scheduling.
- Establishes best practices for cluster provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and decommissioning.
- Partner with data engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data ingestion, processing, governance, and access patterns.
- Troubleshoot complex platform, performance, and production stability issues across distributed systems.
- Lead root cause analysis and implement preventive measures to improve resiliency and service quality.
- Evaluate and guide migration or coexistence strategies involving cloud data platforms and hybrid architectures.
- Mentor engineers and administrators, providing technical leadership across platform operations and engineering initiatives.
- Create and maintain platform documentation, operational runbooks, and architecture standards.
- Create and maintain data views, data exports and automated data processing.
Working Conditions
- Office environment
What You'll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education
- Master's or bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field or related work experience
Experience
- 5+ years engineering work experience
- 5+ years project management work experience
Skills
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
- Basic knowledge of related industry specifications and standards IEEE, ANSI, Fiber (Multimode, Single mode, UTP, etc.), Bridging, Switching, Routing, Ethernet and Transport technologies and protocols
- Basic knowledge in network design, network architecture, protocols and network topology
- Basic knowledge in TCP/IP and the OSI Model
- Basic knowledge in using ticketing and software tools to support the current operations
- Basic knowledge of network devices and basic network appliances
- Basic knowledge of network designing software, such as Visio
- Ability to perform duties in a very fast-paced environment and ability to learn new technology quickly
- Ability to use personal computer and software applications
Preferred Qualifications
Education
- Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
- Industry and vendor specific certifications and training preferred (Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, etc.)
Skills
- Minimum four (4) years of software development experience using Python / Typescript
- Experience with Django/Flask/FastAPI
- Experience with Shell scripting, TCP/IP and networking concepts, system security best practices and system monitoring
- Capable of managing systems in a large scale, high availability, multi-site environment
- Experience working in DevOps practices and tools
- Experience with Hadoop and other database technologies, like Postgresql/MySQL, Splunk
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- Other Industry and vendor specific certifications, training (Python, DevOps, Network Technologies)
- Advanced knowledge of network automation platforms and techniques
- Advanced knowledge of concurrent, parallel and asynchronous programming design and techniques
- Advanced knowledge of restful api design, operation and interaction
- Working knowledge of PEP8 programming practices
- Ability to read, understand and effectively convey RFC and IEEE standards and concepts
#LI-CEB
EGN601 2026-86154 EGN601 2026
Here, our employees don't just have jobs, they're building careers. That's why we offer a comprehensive package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant's criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2026-11-03 05:00 AM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between
$110,800.00 and $196,400.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
Get to Know Us Spectrum is a suite of advanced communications services offered by Charter Communications, the leading broadband and video company in the nation and the fastest growing mobile provider in its footprint, with services available to more than 70 million homes and small to large businesses across 45 states. When you join our team, you'll be keeping customers connected to Seamless Connectivity and Entertainment with Spectrum Internet®, Mobile, TV and Voice products.
Grow Your Career Here We're committed to growing a workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve - providing opportunities for employment and advancement to all team members. Spectrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including job seekers with disabilities and veterans.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Engineering or a related field, or equivalent related work experience
- At least 5 years of engineering work experience
- At least 5 years of project management work experience
- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English
- Basic knowledge of IEEE, ANSI, fiber, bridging, switching, routing, Ethernet, and transport technologies and protocols
- Basic knowledge of network design, network architecture, protocols, and network topology
- Basic knowledge of TCP/IP and the OSI Model
- Basic knowledge of ticketing and software tools supporting operations
- Basic knowledge of network devices and network appliances
- Basic knowledge of network design software such as Visio
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and learn new technologies quickly
- Ability to use personal computers and software applications
- Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert certification
- At least 4 years of software development experience using Python or TypeScript
- Experience with Django, Flask, or FastAPI
- Experience with Shell scripting, TCP/IP, networking concepts, system security, and system monitoring
- Experience managing large-scale, highly available, multi-site environments
- Experience with DevOps practices and tools
- Experience with Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Splunk
- Experience with Docker or Kubernetes
- Advanced knowledge of network automation platforms and techniques
- Advanced knowledge of concurrent, parallel, and asynchronous programming
- Advanced knowledge of RESTful API design and operation
- Working knowledge of PEP 8 programming practices
- Ability to interpret and communicate RFC and IEEE standards and concepts
What the Team is Saying
Eilisa
Group Vice President, Service Delivery Applications
Stephanie
Sr. Director, Video Tools & Automation
Raquenel
Senior Director, Product Insights
Mary
GVP, Network Security Operations
Kat K.
Director of Field Operations
Spectrum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests the company’s retirement programs, including a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match and additional employer contributions for many roles, are standout parts of total compensation. Employees often highlight these features as meaningful long‑term value.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health offerings are consistently described as a core strength. When combined with broader protections and health‑account options, feedback suggests the package feels competitive.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, extended leave for birth mothers, fertility support, and adoption/surrogacy assistance are prominently featured. Feedback suggests these family‑building benefits enhance the overall appeal of the package.
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What We Do
At Spectrum, our Product & Technology teams build the platforms and tools that power seamless connectivity and entertainment across Internet, WiFi, Video, Mobile and Voice. Supporting more than 500 million devices, we’re transforming the next era of connected experiences with some of the fastest, most reliable and advanced services in the nation. It’s an unmatched environment for designers, architects, engineers, developers, operators and data scientists to grow their careers, solve complex challenges and collaborate to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Join us to help deliver what’s next.
Why Work With Us
At Spectrum, we continually refine technology, process, and structure. We are committed to delivering a superior network infrastructure, the most competitive products, and highly rated customer experiences. Our talented team of experts deploys technology solutions and builds systems and tools for our employees to provide exceptional operations.
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