Software Engineer (DevOps) at Comcast (Seattle, WA)

Comcast's Technology & Product organization works at the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the customer experience. From creating apps like TVGo to new features such as the Talking Guide on the X1 platform, we work every day to make a positive impact through innovation in the pursuit of building amazing products that are enjoyable, easy to use and accessible across all platforms. The team also develops and supports our evolving network architecture, including next-generation consumer systems and technologies, infrastructure and engineering, network integration and management tools, and technical standards.

Summary

Come grow your career at Comcast Technology Solutions! Work with an enthusiastic team of bright individuals on a variety of interesting technical challenges. Contribute to a work environment that is encouraging, energetic, collaborative and supportive.

Ideal Candidate

• We believe learning is a lifelong endeavor. Strong ability to learn on your own and take in new information and ideas
• Be willing to attend and/or speak at industry conferences and share your knowledge and expertise with others.
• Our engineers are not a pack of "lone wolves." You must be a good communicator who plays well with others.
• Be committed to working as part of a DevOps team on shared objectives aimed at releasing quality software rapidly and repeatedly
• Enthusiastic problem solver
• Interest in one or more of the following: science, technology, programming, engineering or exploration
• Wants to help realize team goals, get things done, and be valued as a key contributor
• Friendly, easy to work with

Overview

Responsible for planning, designing, and implementing new software, including APIs, microservices, and internal tools. Maintains new and existing applications, including writing code, testing, debugging and troubleshooting. Documents development activity including how-to and best practices.

Skills Required

• Generally requires 2-5 years related experience
• Comfortable working in a Linux shell
• Basic programming experience in one or more languages
• Basic understanding of how networks work
• Basic understanding of how a website functions
• Basic understanding of how to troubleshoot a problem when something doesn't work
• Understanding of how to measure and track the performance of software and systems
• Basic ability to build tooling using scripting or programming language of choice
• Conflict resolution (friendly, easy to work with)
• Knowledge and use of source control (Git)
• Understanding and use of containers
• Interest in instrumenting applications for performance visibility
• Understanding of unit and functional testing
• Clear written and verbal communication

Core Responsibilities

• You will be assigned user stories in any of the following disciplines: Development; Test; Deployment; Operations; Automation; Tooling; Monitoring
• You own your code. Full participant in On Call rotations; Daily SCRUMs; Iterative planning, Sprint Grooming, Retrospectives, Demos;
• Develop, test and deploy reliable, efficient and cost-effective automation solutions leveraging modern frameworks across multiple environments and using modern test approaches
• Drive automation at all levels of the development and operation lifecycle
• Produce documentation of overall automation design, operation and test coverage

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Equivalent Field of Study or experience

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer

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