Posted by: "Travis Scott" travis_scott@cable.comcast.com
Are you passionate about digital media, entertainment, and software
services? Do you like big challenges and working within a highly
motivated team environment?
Comcast Converged Products is looking for an outstanding Software/System
Architect with a passion for conceptualizing and designing highly
scalable, fault-tolerant and performant systems.
Role: Content Delivery Network (CDN) Architect, Service Delivery
(Network/Video)
As a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Systems Architect you will research,
develop and oversee the deployment of new core service delivery
technologies for delivering stunningly new video experiences at a
massive scale. The Comcast Converged Products (CCP) Service Delivery
team is a new, small and fast-moving team of world-class experts who are
innovating in end-to-end video delivery. We are a team that thrives on
big challenges, results, quality, and agility.
Responsibilities:
* Create, evaluate and document multiple architectures and designs in
the areas of content caching, distribution, routing and delivery.
* Design robust high-volume production systems.
* Conceptualized and scope prototypes to test multiple design and
architecture concepts.
* Develop custom test harnesses for 3rd party applications,
interfaces and systems.
* Create robust implementations.
* Specification responsibility for system interfaces, API's core
capabilities.
* Coordinate and oversee outside development teams ensuring
consistent high quality.
* Identify and build strategic relationships with business partners
and vendors.
* A willingness to respectfully question normal practices and
conventions in the pursuit of perfection.
* Team liaison to the office of Intellectual Property, responsible
for ensuring new domains of IPR are properly identified, documented and
filed.
* Communicates engineering findings through OCTO, NETO, publications,
and engineering journals
Requirements:
* MS/BS preferred in Computer Science
* Significant experience with commercial software and systems
engineering.
* A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in
data structures, algorithms, non-blocking I/O and software design.
* Extensive experience in content workflow and delivery.
* Extensive experience with designing lightweight RESTful web
services and message bus type architectures.
* Familiarity with Java application servers JBoss, Tomcast,
Glassfish, WebLogic.
* Familiarity with: Hadoop, Clojure, CouchDB, SimpleDB, MonetDB and
log aggregation products like Splunk and Logscape
* Familiarity with video delivery technologies: TCP/IP, HTTP, Flash,
RTP/RTSP, RTMP, SMIL, IGMP.
* Familiarity with video streaming solutions and technologies:
Silverlight/IIS Smooth Streaming, Adobe Flash Media Server, and MPEG-TS,
MPEG4-14.
* Familiarity with various types of both local and global load
balancing.
* Good communicator, able to analyze and clearly articulate complex
issues and technologies understandably and engagingly.
* Great design and problem solving skills, with a strong bias for
architecting at scale.
* Strong problem solving skills, adaptable, proactive and willing to
take ownership.
If you would like to be considered for this position please email your
resume to: Travis Scott (travis_scott@cable.comcast.com
NO AGENCIES
LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY
**We are unable to accept candidates possessing or needing an H1B visa.
