Software Engineer - API Gateway (Cloudfare/ AWS)

Company Description

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.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

We are seeking a Software Engineer who will be an outstanding addition to our technology team to help reduce complexity and improve the development velocity and time to market of our software engineering teams that utilize cloud computing and help develop automated self-service solutions, blueprints and golden paths for cloud-native applications and infrastructure, deploy best-in-class tools, engineering standards, and best practices. 

If you have the willingness to learn new technologies, share knowledge, learn from others, and help build a dev-ops culture of security by design, we’re looking for you. Our teams are innovative, collaborative, diverse, and are taking technology into the future. The right person for this role is passionate about building optimized systems for scalability, performance, reusability, and reliability. If you love simple, performant solutions to ambitious problems and are looking for a role with significant growth potential, then this is an excellent role for you. 

We are very interested in attracting a diverse range of candidates from different backgrounds. If you aren't sure if you qualify, please err on the side of applying. 

Qualifications

• 3+ years as part of a team building infrastructure and automation tooling 
• Proven experience in end-to-end API Gateway development, particularly edge networking with Cloudflare. 
• Proven experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript. 
• Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, or an equivalent. 
• Strong, proven proficiency with AWS, especially with core services such as Lambda, and ECS; experience with AWS best practices and familiarity with a broad range of AWS tools and services. 
• Strong networking skills and F5 BIG-IP experience are highly desirable. 
• Desire to lean in on a philosophy of security, resiliency, and privacy by design. 
• Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests required. Continuous delivery experience preferred. 
• The ability to jump into a project and contribute immediately to both architecture and implementation. 
• Proven track record of implementing solutions efficiently in a collaborative environment. 
• Bachelor's degree or higher or combination of relevant education, experience, and training in Computer Science or a related field. 

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience delivering software using an agile development process 
• Able to define, document, and communicate front-end, middleware, and back-end architectures 
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively connect with both business and technical teams 
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables 
• Knowledge and understanding of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), software development, and agile development/testing practices and methodologies 
• Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests required. Continuous delivery experience preferred.  
• Experience delivering software using an agile development process  
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively connect with both business and technical teams  
• Ability to work and part