Golang Job: Golang Engineer

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Company

Comcast

Location

Sunnyvale, CA - United States of America

Job type

Full-Time

Golang Job Details

Comcast’s Technology, Product & Experience 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. We offer a flexible working environment to balance the need to work independently wherever you choose, with days that require collaboration at one of our offices. Our roles primarily reside inside or around one of our Tech Hubs (Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs, Denver, Austin, Silicon Valley, Washington DC/N. Virginia). Some roles can work virtual full-time if they are not near a Tech Hub, but that is dependent upon the needs of the position and amount of collaboration required.


Job Summary

Comcast's Xmidt/Webpa team is seeking a Golang focused software engineer to join our team. The team develops and deploys the open source projects as well as a few other internal projects. The Xmidt/Webpa team is passionate about learning, sharing and adopting best practices for the entire DevSecOps lifecycle. Open source software development is a significant portion of the work the team does with the community and our partners. Nearly all our projects are written go, so if you're excited about that language then you'll be in good company.

Job Description

As a Golang engineer on the team you will contribute to critical infrastructure projects that operate at fairly large scales. You will be part of a team that works together to improve our quality and reliability every day. See what we’re up to right here: https://xmidt.io and https://github.com/xmidt-org.

Core Responsibilities

  • A Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

  • A broad technical proficiency, with a thirst for knowledge, and a 'can do' attitude.

  • Ability and readiness to quickly learn new technologies.

  • You are self motivating and driven. You explore when there is time and focus on what is important to achieve our goals.

  • Take high-level design decisions from the team and turn them into reality that solves customer issues through collaboration.

  • Team player, excellent communication skills and able to successfully articulate technology concepts to both business and technical audience.

  • Demonstrated ability to quickly understand business requirements, propose reference architectures, and possible technology solutions.

Technical Skills

  • Experience with writing Go code. (Ideal)

  • Proficient working in a Linux environment.

  • Proficient writing tests for your own code.

  • Some networking knowledge is a plus (OSI network layers, TCP/IP, Firewalls, traffic shaping, and load balancing).

  • Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment processes and tools such as Github Actions.

  • Experience with deploying and operating infrastructure running micro services based platforms.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

  • Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
  • Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
  • Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
  • Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
  • Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
  • Drive results and growth.
  • Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
  • Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

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.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.


Education

Bachelor's Degree

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.

Relevant Work Experience

5-7 Years


Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.