Comcast

Backend Platform Engineer - AI Operations Platform

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13 days ago
Philadelphia, PA, USA or Reston, VA, USASenior

Base Salary

$136k - $214k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and scale a multi-tenant AI Ops platform integrating backend services, runtime engines, and developer tools.
  • Design, build, and maintain high-concurrency GraphQL and REST APIs, event-driven backend microservices, abstraction layers, gateway routers, and middleware around AI/ML models.
  • Design, optimize, and query relational and NoSQL database systems for high-throughput production workloads.
  • Implement telemetry, logging, performance metrics, uptime, and observability across cluster environments.
  • Containerize and deploy services using orchestration tools and modern deployment pipelines.
  • Evaluate technology choices, set engineering standards, design end-to-end solutions, and collaborate with external and cross-functional engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred, with consideration for coursework and experience or extensive related professional experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, scaling, and operating distributed backend systems and microservices.
  • Proven experience designing and implementing GraphQL and REST APIs for complex system communication.
  • Hands-on experience deploying and scaling real-world AI/ML use cases, serving tools, and API wrappers for operational execution.
  • Experience designing, optimizing, and querying relational and/or NoSQL databases at scale.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python and/or Go, Java, or C++.
  • Ability to architect complex systems, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and work with external engineering teams.
  • Preferred experience with Docker, Kubernetes, containerized applications, cloud or cluster environments, telemetry, monitoring, MLOps tools, and legacy-system modernization.

Benefits

  • Comcast provides an array of benefits with personalized physical, financial, and emotional support for eligible employees.
  • The role is generally expected to be on-site unless the team is designated as virtual; remote consideration may be available for candidates living more than 100 miles from the office when virtual options are listed.
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