Principle Software Engineer - Data & AI

Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You'll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)
Job Summary
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.
Job Description
Core 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.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field
• 8+ years of development experience with Java or Golang
• Python experience desired
• 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
• Experience with distributed messaging (Kinesis, Kafka) desired
• Experience with SQL, noSQL databases (Redis / Elastic Search / DynamoDB) desired
• 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

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 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, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Skills:
Amazon Web Services (AWS); Kubernetes; Cloud Based Services; Java; Go Programming Language
Salary:
Primary Location Pay Range: $160,106.35 - $240,159.53
Additional Range: This job can be performed in District of Columbia with a Pay Range of $160,106.35 - $251,075.87
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
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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
10 Years +