Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a Software Engineer who will be an outstanding addition to our technology team. If you have the willingness to learn new technologies, share knowledge, learn from others, and help build secure solutions 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, security, reusability, and reliability. If you are looking for a role with significant growth potential, then this is an excellent role for you.    The Scheduling and Media-Management team develops the software solutions that drive playout of NBCUniversal’s most premier content to all distribution outlets. Agile squads include developers, test engineers, a dedicated product owner and scrum lead. Squads are empowered to develop simple and performant solutions to the scheduling of content, ad, and brand promotion material. Solutions must be continuously deployed, distributed among data centers, and highly available to match the superb uptime requirements that viewers have come to expect from all NBCU delivery channels. 

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $105,000 - $140,000   We are hiring in multiple locations where our teams are based: New York, NY; Englewood Cliffs, NJ; Denver, CO; Universal City, CA with remote flexibility.

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Bachelor's degree or higher or combination of relevant education, experience, and training in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. 
• 5+ years of relevant software development, system engineering, or modern on-prem or managed-cloud-based system administration experience 
• 2+ years of cloud application architecture and engineering (AWS a plus), with hands-on experience in cloud automation technologies, like CFT, Terraform, Puppet  
• Experience in building RESTful web microservices, event-driven and asynchronous, and serverless design programming 
• Knowledge of modern programming languages (Java, Python, Go, JS incl. ReactJS and NodeJS). 
• Desire to lean in on a philosophy of security, resiliency, and privacy by design. 
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and architecture patterns. 
• Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, code coverage concepts, test- and behavior-driven design (TDD/BDD), and automated integration tests required. Continuous delivery experience preferred. 
• The ability to jump into a project and contribute immediately to both architecture and implementation

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Experience delivering software using an agile development process 
• Ability to work and participate in a team with an open and collaborative style of communications 
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of a cross-functional team

Experience/Familiarity with any of these technologies preferred:  ReactJS, Kubernetes, Docker, GraphQL, MongoDB, Jenkins, AWS resources including Lambda, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Cloudfront, Cloudformation, Cloudwatch 

Experience with any of these technologies are a plus:  Gradle, OAuth, RabbitMQ, Datadog, Splunk, BXF-format XML data 

Additional Information

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access nbcunicareers.com as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations in the US by calling 1-818-777-4107 and in the UK by calling +44 2036185726.