23 hours ago
Base Salary
$182k - $242k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and design for large-scale, multi-team initiatives across backend systems, CMS platforms, video workflows, advertising systems, and monetization.
- Define scalable, secure, maintainable cloud-native solutions and coordinate dependencies and delivery across engineering groups.
- Provide architectural leadership for video transcoding, metadata ingestion, FAST channels, dynamic playlists, manifest generation, ad insertion, catalog exports, batch processing, CMS, and scheduling systems.
- Represent Xumo’s technical architecture with external partners and vendors and guide third-party integration strategies.
- Establish reliability, observability, scalability, security, and production troubleshooting best practices with DevOps.
- Define and maintain a 2–5 year architectural roadmap and translate emerging technologies into actionable platform strategy.
- Mentor engineers, elevate architectural standards, produce technical documentation, and align executive, product, business, and technical stakeholders.
- Work nights, weekends, and variable schedules as necessary and maintain regular, consistent, punctual attendance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, with consideration for coursework and experience or extensive related professional experience.
- 15+ years of relevant work experience, including 10+ years as a software engineer focused on Java backend development.
- At least 5 years designing and delivering distributed, cloud-native systems at scale, ideally involving Google Cloud.
- Proven Solutions Architect or equivalent technical leadership experience and a track record of independently leading large cross-team initiatives with multi-month timelines.
- Expertise in Java and the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring Data, Spring Security, and Spring Cloud.
- Strong experience with microservices, domain-driven design, REST, gRPC, messaging, OpenAPI, API gateways, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, AWS integrations, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, Kafka, RabbitMQ, event-driven architecture, data modeling, and batch processing.
- Knowledge of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, secrets management, cloud security, networking, distributed systems, observability, Linux, scripting, Git workflows, and production diagnostics.
- Strong leadership, communication, mentoring, stakeholder-management, debugging, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience includes video delivery for ad-supported environments, adaptive streaming, manifest manipulation, DRM, server-side ad insertion, CMS scheduling, AWS Workload Identity Federation or STS, and digital advertising ecosystems.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule based in Irvine, CA; Philadelphia, PA; or Englewood, CO, with 4 days in the office and 1 day remote each week.
- Eligible employees receive Comcast benefits and personalized physical, financial, and emotional support resources.
- The application window is generally 30 days from posting, subject to earlier or later closure based on applicant volume.
- The role may require nights, weekends, and variable schedules.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache CassandraApache KafkaAWSBashGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformgRPCJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPythonRabbitMQSpring BootSQLTerraformVault
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Comcast
Comcast is a U.S.-based media and telecommunications company that sells broadband, video, wireless, and voice services to consumers and businesses under the Xfinity and Comcast Business brands. It also owns NBCUniversal (including NBC, Universal Pictures, and Peacock) and Sky, operating TV networks, film studios, and streaming in the U.S. and Europe. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Philadelphia, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq (CMCSA).