Metadata Software Engineer 3 Remote Available

Profile

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the worlds 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.

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.

Job Description

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.

Though the Content Discovery Services team is based in Philadelphia, this position does offer the opportunity to work remote.

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

Required qualifications:

Superior knowledge of Object Oriented design and patterns

Proficiency with Java

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:

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)

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

UNIX, Linux, or Mac background

Experience with HTTP/REST and writing web services

Familiarity with a scripting language

Experience with data modeling in the entertainment domain

Employees at all levels are expected to:

Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.

Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.

Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.

Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.

Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.

Drive results and growth.

Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.

Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

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 EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Relevant Work Experience

5-7 Years

Salary:

Pay Range: $93,379.60 - $140,069.40

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience.

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. 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 (https://jobs.comcast.com/life-at-comcast/benefits) on our careers site for more details.

Company info

Comcast
Website : http://corporate.comcast.com