Principal Engineer

Responsibilities

• Author, sponsor or steer designs for multi-platform technical solutions across spaces such as content steering and delivery, performance data analytics & decisioning - for deployment across our product portfolio and infrastructure, remaining hands-on during execution and delivery.
• Drive or guide complex technical debate with key management, architectural, design and operational teams throughout Comcast’s businesses and third-party vendors, building relationships to improve our delivery end to end.
• Conduct rigorous, in-depth reviews of existing and planned systems & methods, challenging the status quo, inspiring innovation and managing change.
• Be well-informed and impartial, constructing and leading request-for-proposal processes, delivering associated proof-of-concept design, execution and measurement.
• Enjoy tracking industry trends and maintaining an international, multi-cultural business outlook, with an eye towards aligning talent to initiatives, representing NBCU/GST at industry forums and leading by engineering example, especially under pressure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a relevant field is required.
• Demonstrable experience in an engineering leadership role, 3+ years.
• 8+ years of engineering experience as an individual contributor.
• A successful track record in delivering and maintaining products/services with regional/global web audiences - via streaming over content delivery networks is a bonus.
• A flair for communicating and presenting technical topics in spoken and written English, to diverse audiences.
• Willingness to travel around the USA and Europe for work-related activities.
• Up-to-date knowledge with a range of foundational internet technologies, eg TCP/IP, TLS, HTTP/*, DNS & BGP.
• Effective deployment of SRE to achieve consistent, high-availability technology operations.