Java Developer- Backend (Eng2)

Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job Summary

The Content Discovery Services team is building a world-class API platform for delivering metadata content to X1 TV set top boxes, DVR, mobile apps, recommendations and other clients. Our platform is designed to handle hundreds of millions of requests, supporting millions of customers a day. To provide a smooth and rich experience for our customers we focus on four primary attributes during our design and development:

• Scalability - Our code is written to scale horizontally and vertically to hand large volumes of requests, as well as batched requests.
• Performance - Request responsiveness is paramount which requires us to implement creative solutions that don't consume copious amounts of resources.
• Response Consistency - It is important that we minimize inconsistency across nodes and data centers. This requires us to develop features that can function in a multi thread system.
• Durability - Our services need to be resilient to failures and outages and be available 24/7.

The software engineers on our team are involved in many phases of the development cycle, from requirements gathering to implementation, test, and deployment. We are looking for someone who enjoys collaborating with others to find new and innovative solutions to problems.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

• Work well with open-ended product descriptions

• Writing production-quality, tested / validated, code

• Develop solutions that scale well to support a system with over a billion transactions a day

• Participate in research, design and recommendations for new solutions and technologies

• Find better ways to monitor our services to identify and alert on potential problems before they become sever. Such as using Grafana, ELK, Prometheus or other tools

Required qualifications:

• Strong proficiency with Java including experience writing performant code

• Experience supporting and monitoring large, distributed services to detect and prevent production issue

• Experience supporting and monitoring multi-threaded services to detect and prevent production issue

• Superior knowledge of object-oriented design and patterns

• A strong understanding or willingness to learn the mechanics behind existing implementations

• Exceptional communication skills: verbal, written, listening

Highly Desirable:

• Experience deploying distributed apps with containers like Docker, and orchestration such as Kubernetes/EKS

• Experience with systems monitoring (e.g. Grafana, Elk, Splunk Dashboard/Alerting)

• Familiarity with in-memory database such as Redis

• Knowledge of SQL

• ETL experience

• UNIX or Linux background

• Experience with HTTP/REST and writing web services

• Experience with data modeling in the entertainment domain

Disclaimer:

This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

This position is ineligible for visa sponsorship.  To be considered for this role, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States and not require sponsorship for employment now or in the future.

Skills

Back-End Development, Java, Software Development

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Education

Bachelor's Degree (Required)

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relative Work Experience

2-5 Years

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