Junior Software Development Engineer - CDN OpsEng
About the role
Comcast is a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. This job involves assisting in the design, development, and maintenance of software applications. It includes debugging software to optimize performance, participating in code reviews for continuous improvement, and implementing testing protocols to ensure reliability. It also involves writing technical documentation and working with Quality Assurance to verify that applications meet specifications and user requirements.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the successful deployment of CDN hardware into production.
- Support teams who use the CDN to deliver content such as IP Linear, VOD, cloud DVR, and internal and external over-the-top customers as well as syndication partners.
- Collaborate with engineering and business stakeholders to create and enforce service level objectives (SLO) and service level indicators (SLI).
- Troubleshoot and repair hardware and application issues within the CDN.
- Design and develop new tools and applications to automate existing pipelines.
- Be involved in on-call duties as necessary.
Skills & Experience We're Looking For
- 1+ years of experience using a scripting language like Python.
- 1+ years working with a configuration management tool like Ansible.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, adaptable, proactive, and willing to take ownership.
- Strong working knowledge of Unix/Linux, HTTP and HTTP Status codes, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, OSI Model), and virtualization (Openstack, VMWare, KVM).
- Have a data driven and analytical mindset.
- Large-scale system design and development knowledge.
- Experience with client/server application architecture.
- Understanding of CDN concepts.
- Willingness to work with server hardware platforms and vendors.
- Customer-focused delivery under agile methodology.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
- Excellent written and communication skills.
Technologies We Use
- Air Traffic Control (ATC)
- Air Traffic Server (ATS)
- Ansible
- Grafana
- Docker/Colima
- Git
- Golang
- HTTP/HTTPS
- iLO/iDRAC
- JSON
- Python
- YAML
What Are the Interesting Problems You'll Be Working On?
Comcast provides a CDN through the Apache Traffic Control. We connect content providers to customer STBs and over-the-top applications like NBC Peacock. The CDN consists of thousands of individual servers distributed across Comcast’s entire footprint as well as with multiple syndication partners in the US and Canada. As the CDN continues to scale, we will need engineers who can automate the management of these servers, streamline deployment pipelines, reduce mean time to recovery, and quickly identify and troubleshoot hardware and software issues. You’ll be working with some of Comcast’s best engineers on the future of content delivery.
Who Will You Work With?
You will work and collaborate with industry experts from many disciplines: software architects and developers, network engineers, data scientists, security specialists, and various streaming video technologists. CDN OpsEng SRE also engage with quality assurance engineers, technical operators, product owners, and vendors.
Where Can You Make an Impact?
Your contributions will help scale the Comcast CDN to be one of the largest in the world. Your team will build and deploy servers that distribute video content to millions of existing and new customers. You’ll help influence groundbreaking video streaming technology standards using cutting-edge technology and see your individual contributions have multi-million-dollar business impacts to Comcast’s bottom line.
About Our Perks & Benefits
We are determined to create an environment where our employees feel valued, understand our business goals, and are motivated. Here's a look at just some of the perks and benefits we make available to our US-based employees:
- Medical & Dental
- 401(k) Savings Plan
- Generous paid time off
- Life Milestones - from adoption assistance, childcare resources, pet insurance, and more, Comcast supports you at all life stages.
- Courtesy Services - We offer all of our full-time employees in serviceable areas free digital TV and internet.
- Discount tickets for Universal Resorts, including theme park tickets and onsite hotel rooms.
Reasonable Accommodation
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
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.