Staff Software Engineer (TypeScript, AWS, Infra-as-Code)

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 Staff Software Engineer who will be an outstanding addition to our Developer Tools and Engineering Experience 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. 

This individual will be working across two teams as a technical lead assisting in building out and maintaining an API management system and Developer Portal.

If you have a strong interest in learning new technologies, sharing knowledge, learning from others, and helping to 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

• Bachelor's degree or higher or combination of relevant education, experience, and training in Computer Science or a related field. 
• 8+ years as part of a team building cloud infrastructure and automation tooling 
• Broad knowledge of various programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Proven experience with TypeScript and modern React.
• 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 problem-solving and analytical skills, ensuring successful execution of complex projects.
• Proven experience in end-to-end API Gateway development, particularly Kong.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, or an equivalent. 
• Strong networking skills and F5 BIG-IP and Cloudflare experience are highly desirable. 
• Experience in Backstage or DevEx platform development, internal development portals 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.  Tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions 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. 
• Uses advanced knowledge and in-depth evaluation to execute projects with multiple variables.
• Leading complex projects, providing technical guidance and oversight, driving architectural decisions, mentoring and coaching engineers, and collaborating with stakeholders.
• Driving technical excellence. Have deep expertise in a particular do