Metadata Software Engineer at Comcast in Philadelphia, PA

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 Content Discovery Services team is building a world-class API platform for delivering metadata content to X1 TV set top boxes, DVR, mobile apps, recommendations and other clients. Our platform is designed to handle hundreds of millions of requests, supporting millions of customers a day. In order to provide a smooth and rich experience for our customers we focus on four primary attributes during our design and development: * Scalability - Our code is written to scale horizontally on nodes in multiple data centers to handle the large request volume. * Performance - Request responsiveness is paramount which requires us to find solutions to persist data in memory when possible and work with various caching solutions. * Response Consistency - It is important that we minimize inconsistency across nodes and data centers. This requires us to develop solution to reduce propagation time in our cluster. * Durability - Our services need to be able to continue serving requests even when there are dependent service outages or network partitions. The Position: Software Engineer The software engineers on our team are involved in many phases of the development cycle, from requirements gathering to implementation, test, and deployment. We are looking for someone who enjoys collaborating with others to find new and innovative solutions to better solve problems.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities
* Work with open-ended product descriptions and translate it into great code

* Writing production-quality, tested code

* Develop solutions that scale well in order to support request volumes that reach into the 100s of millions a day

* Write performant code where milliseconds matter and analyze performance of services, identify non-performant code and provide solutions to problem areas

* Participate in research, design and recommendations for new solutions and technologies.

* Find better ways to monitor our services to identify and alert on potential problems before they become sever. Such as using Grafana, Splunk, Kibna or other tools you're familiar with

* Mentor more junior members of the technical staff, performing code reviews, and lead the team to be effective and agile

Employees at all levels are expected to:

* Strong proficiency with Java including experience writing performant code * Experience supporting and monitoring large distributed services to detect and prevent production issue

* Superior knowledge of Object Oriented design and patterns

* A strong understanding or willingness to learn the mechanics behind the JVM and GC including performance tuning

* Exceptional communication skills: verbal, written, listening

Highly Desirable:

* Experience deploying distributed apps with containers (Docker) & orchestration such as Kubernetes & EKS

* Experience with systems monitoring (e.g. Grafana, Elk, Splunk Dashboard/Alerting)

* Familiarity with in-memory database such as Redis, Hazelcast, Memcached

* Experience working with and developing in AWS

* Knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)

* UNIX or Linux background

* Experience with HTTP/REST and writing web services

* Experience with data modeling in the entertainment domain

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 proud to be 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:

Applications Programming; Back-End Development; Application Programming Interface (API); Software Development

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

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 +, 5-7 Years, 2-5 Years, 0-2 Years, 15 Years +, 7-10 Years