Development Engineer 2

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary

The Unified Communications Engineering team is looking for a Software Development Engineer who is passionate about building scalable software solutions, data platforms, and automation frameworks that enable business insights and operational efficiency. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain software components that power data ingestion, processing, storage, and reporting systems across the Unified Communications ecosystem. The ideal candidate should have a strong foundation in software engineering with experience developing APIs, building data pipelines, working with distributed processing technologies such as Spark, and integrating with databases and observability platforms. You will collaborate with Product Engineers, Business stakeholders, Data Scientists, and other development teams to design and implement reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions. We welcome individuals who are self-motivated, eager to learn, and capable of working independently while contributing effectively within a collaborative engineering environment.

Job Description

Who we are

The Unified Communications Engineering organization at Comcast innovates, develops, delivers, and operates voice and unified communications products to our residential, commercial, and wholesale customers. As a member of this team, you will be part of a high-performance engineering organization focused on providing the most reliable, secure, and high-quality experience at scale to our customers. Our teams achieve this outcome by continuously improving our products utilizing modern DevSecOps practices in an end-to-end approach. Our culture focuses on constant learning, embracing diversity, fostering inclusivity, empowering individuals, dynamic collaboration, and promoting open communications. Comcast voice and unified communications products set the standard in a highly competitive marketplace, and it is through our technology driven approach that we achieve the best customer experience for our products.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications and services that support Unified Communications platforms and business operations.

Build and enhance data ingestion and processing pipelines using technologies such as Python, Kafka, Vector, RabbitMQ, Spark, or similar frameworks.

Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services that enable access to business and operational data.

Design and implement scalable and fault-tolerant solutions for data processing, storage, and retrieval using relational and NoSQL databases.

Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Participate in code reviews, unit testing, and software release activities to maintain high engineering standards and code quality.

Develop solutions leveraging technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, MariaDB, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or similar distributed systems.

Implement monitoring, logging, and observability capabilities using tools such as Grafana, ELK, Splunk, CloudWatch, Datadog, or Prometheus.

Troubleshoot application, pipeline, and database issues, and participate in root cause analysis to improve platform reliability.

Optimize application performance, database queries, and data processing workloads to improve efficiency and scalability.

Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for automation and operational improvements.

Respond to production issues and customer concerns in a timely and efficient manner.

Follow software development best practices, including version control, CI/CD, security standards, and documentation.

Skillsets

Strong experience in Python programming especially Pandas & numpy.

A very good understanding of the concepts like aggregation, filtering, parsing, and alerting.

Experience with Observability tools like Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, Logstash/Vector/fluentd etc.

Experience with building data pipelines and experience with ETL tools like airflow is preferred.

Excellent SQL skills are required.

Creative in visualization or creating Dashboards using Tableau, Kibana or Grafana.

Strong fundamentals and experience in Data analytics using python.

Unix/Linux basics & Shell Scripting.

Good to have knowledge of Kafka and integration with logging/observability pipelines

Exposure to java script and ability to build custom charts using D3.js or any other java script libraries is preferred.

Knowledge and experience in Spark/Databricks is preferred.

Good knowledge of git

Responsibilities

Writing and maintaining efficient code for software components, adhering to best practices in development

Supporting the design and development of new software applications aligned with business objectives

Implementing testing frameworks for software validation, including unit and integration tests, to ensure quality

Documenting the software development process, including design and deployment procedures, to facilitate knowledge sharing

Analyzing software integration needs and planning system architecture to meet technical specifications

Reviewing current practices and technical literature to inform project solutions and applying engineering methodologies

Working with Q