1 day ago
Base Salary
$182k - $242k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and design for large-scale initiatives across backend systems, CMS platforms, video workflows, advertising systems, and monetization platforms.
- Define scalable, secure, and maintainable cloud-native solutions and coordinate delivery across multiple engineering teams.
- Architect video transcoding, metadata ingestion, FAST channel, catalog export, batch processing, scheduling, and advertising workflows.
- Represent Xumo’s technical architecture with external partners and vendors and guide third-party integrations.
- Establish reliability, observability, scalability, and security practices in partnership with DevOps.
- Maintain a 2–5 year architectural roadmap and drive research, innovation, and technology exploration.
- Mentor engineers, improve architectural standards, document technical decisions, and communicate with executive, product, and business stakeholders.
- Work a variable schedule that may include nights and weekends.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred; Comcast may consider coursework and experience or extensive related professional experience instead.
- 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 experience as a Solutions Architect or in an equivalent technical leadership role.
- Experience leading large, cross-team initiatives independently over multi-month timelines.
- Expertise with Java, the Spring ecosystem, microservices, distributed systems, cloud platforms, messaging, data stores, security, networking, and observability.
- Experience aligning technical investments with executive, product, and business stakeholders.
- Experience evaluating and integrating third-party platforms in complex enterprise ecosystems.
- Strong leadership, communication, mentoring, debugging, production troubleshooting, Linux, command-line, scripting, and Git workflow skills.
- Preferred experience with video delivery for ad-supported environments, adaptive streaming, manifest manipulation, DRM, server-side ad insertion, CMS scheduling, metadata systems, digital advertising platforms, and programmatic advertising.
Benefits
- Base pay is supplemented by Comcast benefits and, for most non-sales positions, an eligible bonus.
- The role is office-based in Irvine, CA; Philadelphia, PA; or Englewood, CO, four days per week with one remote day.
- The position may require nights, weekends, and variable schedules.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache CassandraApache KafkaAWSBashGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformgRPCJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPythonRabbitMQSpring BootSQLTerraform
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).