Staff Software Engineer (AWS/SQL/Python/TypeScript)

Company Description

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 theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. 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.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

Job Description

We are seeking a full-stack Staff Software Engineer who will develop software, help formalize development process and tooling, and contribute to the technical vision and strategy of the organization.

This role falls within the “Rights and Contracts” organization, which is focused on producing, cataloging, and distributing IP rights and contractual information for the enterprise.

Responsibilities:

• Work in an agile software development team to complete backlog items, working in conjunction with other developers within NBCUniversal and engineers from external companies.
• Test and create automated tests for your code, ensuring every function, service, and object is compatible with your team’s work and with the many systems within the NBCUniversal system portfolio.
• Communicate with business partners around NBCUniversal to understand the needs of the user, and implement those ideas in software.
• Create documentation for developers as well as business users to help them understand your products.
• Maintain cloud-based platforms and environments of supported applications, troubleshooting and patching functional issues and data issues in lower or production environments when necessary.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related experience in software development, or an equivalent combination of education/experience.
• Extensive experience in managing relational databases in production. Experience managing large-scale data migrations and managing schema through code.
• Extensive experience in writing complex SQL & stored procedures.
• Strong ability to tune high-performance database queries
• Strong experience in API design and development
• Strong experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Experience in building production-grade, cloud-native software 
• Experience with serverless technologies and event-driven design (AWS Lambda preferred)
• Proficiency developing web applications in Python
• Experience in building responsive, accessible, and user-friendly web interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks
• Experience with automated test/build/deploy tools in a Python and TypeScript tech stack
• Passionate about writing clean, maintainable code that will be used and modified by others, and able to use and modify other developers’ work rather than recreate it

Desired Characteristics:

• B.S. degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field strongly preferred
• Competent working in secured internal network environments and complex cloud networks setups
• Demonstrated experience building software on the cloud such as AWS with managed services
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience working in large, multifaceted and matrixed organizations
• Collaborative team player accustomed to working within and across groups
• Organized and detail-oriented with ability to manage time effectively
• Ability to translate business process needs into clear technical requirements
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