Software Engineer

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Software Engineer, Application Technology Development

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Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world’s best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

We are currently looking to hire a software engineer with experience in designing and developing applications. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full stack as we continue to push technology forward.

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This position is ineligible for visa sponsorship. To be considered for this role, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States and not require sponsorship for employment now or in the future.

Project Highlights

The project that you will be working on is a search engine that powers end user's search and browse experience for media content across STBs, Apps and streaming devices. With a customer base of 30 million plus (and growing) we deal with about 1.5 billion requests per day. The video content catalog is constantly growing which always poses a challenge to engineers to ensure that the system is at optimal performance returning results in a few hundred milliseconds even during peak usage of the system. The project is built on microservice architecture with about 300 instances across multiple data centers.

The Role

We are looking for a Software Engineer to write and develop code, work on all aspects of the application technological development, and contribute develop and maintain high quality, distributed and resilient services in production.

Core Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements, design, develop and unit test code.
• Resolve technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.
• Collaborate across Development, QA and Ops teams.
• Maintain uptime, responsiveness, and scalability for all in-house applications and respond to any technical emergencies
• Document processes and instill best practices
  
  

Required qualification

• Requires 2 to 3 years related experience and MS/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Software development experience in Golang or Kotlin.
• Familiarity of the Linux command-line.
• Experience developing for and in cloud solutions
• Docker/K8s knowledge is plus point
• Experience in DevOps processes and related tools
• Ability to learn other coding languages as needed. For e.g Scala, Python, Golang
• Exceptional written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and extremely well in an Agile/SCRUM team setting
• Proactive, inquisitive and always looking for a challenge and want to constantly grow as a professional