Development Engineer 3

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Job Summary

Responsible for planning and designing new software and web applications. Analyzes, tests and assists with the integration of new applications. Documents all development activity. Assists with training non-technical personnel. Has in-depth experience, knowledge and skills in own discipline. Usually determines own work priorities. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

Job Description

Engineer 3 – Devops Engineer

• Are you interested in joining a team that’s working on a large-scale observability project?  As a full stack developer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and supporting specific components of a large-scale observability platform.  You will work with other engineers and researchers with backgrounds in advanced fields such as big data and machine learning.  As a key member of the team, you will help define, refine, and test state of the art algorithms, and scale the associated systems for high performance, stability, and availability.

General Responsibilities:

• Building the tools to administer/monitor a large-scale distributed database.
• Building an observability platform on a massive scale
• Writing production-quality, tested code.
• Understanding the code base thoroughly in breadth and depth, as well as managing code repositories and development infrastructure.
• Producing technical designs and documentation at varying levels of granularity
• Collaborating with our internal and external teams to provide outstanding customer service
• Resisting the accrual of “technical debt” in our systems.
• Creating aggregate materialized views/tables

• Troubleshooting SQL queries
• Researching data discrepancies  
• Managing ClickHouse Database
• Managing Kafka Cluster
• Building Grafana dashboards
• Troubleshooting/Creating Ansible Playbooks
• Managing hundreds of servers(RMA’s, patching, OS upgrades, application upgrades)

Preferred Skills:

• Experience developing/troubleshooting large scale distributed systems
• 1+ years of working ClickHouse development and administration knowledge
• 2+ years of Linux administration
• 3+ years of Python development
• Excellent SQL skills
• Strong communication skills
• Experience with supporting internal and external customers
• Experience in all aspects of data systems (both Big Data and traditional) including schema design, ETL, aggregation strategy, and performance optimization.
• Experience building performant Grafana dashboards
• Experience using Ansible
• Experience using MongoDB
• Experience using Kafka
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Comcast is 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, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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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