Principal Software Engineer

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.

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

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Enterprise Technology team, you will be responsible for helping to migrate Enterprise applications across the company. Migrations include replicating source code, lifting and shifting applications from on premise to the cloud, moving applications from one on premise datacenter to another, and replicating full application stacks with full redeployment. You will be responsible to work across existing software engineering teams and partner with other developers to build fully functioning software. This is a one year position focused on migration activities.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement microservices for account and identity management, cost visibility, and process automation
• Work closely with business units to define technical specifications based on conceptual design and business requirements.
• Assist with the design and implementation of security and forensics capabilities to ensure governance across multiple cloud venues, private and public.
• Design, develop, test, debug and document new and existing software and or applications.
• Contribute to and respond to code and architecture reviews as needed.
• Write code and scripts to automate everything possible.
• Strong technical expertise and troubleshooting skills for large scale distributed computing systems and software.
• Minimal conceptual, logical and physical data modeling with data modeling tools and database design in complex, large-scale data environments.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• BS in computer science or related field
• 10+ years’ experience in a software engineering role
• Knowledgeable in public and private cloud technologies
• Demonstrated ability in building cloud native and 12 factor applications
• Demonstrated production-level software development skills
• Demonstrated ability to conceive, manage, and complete project deliverables
• Linux systems administration skills, across distributions, and especially in a cloud or virtualized environment
• Understanding of IP networking and traffic scaling
• Experience with agile development methodologies, rapid application development, and project management
• Proven ability to design and present understandable and practical solutions to complex problems
• Demonstrated leadership skills in a fast-paced, team-driven environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including visual presentation skills
• Demonstrated experience in research data collection, analysis, and presentation
• Ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations

Desired Characteristics:

• Expert at script language development, including Java, C++, Python, Node.js, and Perl
• Expert at Web application development including JavaScript/CSS/HTML, Angular, BootStrap, and JQuery
• Proficient with data structuring languages, including XML, JSON, and design of binary data formats
• Experience creating and managing projects in revision control, including git and github
• Experience with automated testing and performance tools, including JMeter
• Experience with large-scale distributed infrastructures, including technologies for clustering and load balancing
• Understanding of distributed capacity management
• Understandin