Base Salary
$120k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance software systems and features primarily in Go for large-scale video content delivery.
- Build reliable and testable services supporting VOD, live events, linear channels, dynamic ad insertion, and manifest manipulation.
- Participate in code reviews and promote high code quality, clear architecture, and healthy engineering practices.
- Partner with Site Reliability Engineering to design highly available, resilient, performant, and fault-tolerant systems.
- Use metrics, logs, traces, observability tooling, and performance analytics to identify issues and perform root-cause analysis.
- Contribute to multi-CDN strategies, routing logic, and content-origin workflows for global streaming performance.
- Collaborate with distributed engineering teams across the US, UK, EU, and Africa and document technical decisions.
- Influence technical direction, system architecture, and engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on Go development preferred, or Python experience.
- Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with containers, orchestration tools, Git-based repositories, automated testing frameworks, and build pipelines.
- Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering practices including SLIs, SLOs, auto-scaling, distributed-systems reliability, or incident response.
- Familiarity with Scrum or Kanban development methodologies.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining design decisions and collaborating with distributed teams.
- Preferred experience with CDNs such as Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly, or Cloudflare.
- Preferred understanding of HLS, DASH, manifests, origins, content routing, or streaming media delivery systems.
- Preferred experience with global-scale systems, multi-region deployments, or high-availability architectures.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule requiring at least four days per week in the office in New York City.
- Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, discounts, and other perks.
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About NBC
NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.