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Role Overview
The role is described as a Senior Software Engineer focused on data center network tooling.
The engineer will build software platforms, automation, and services that improve reliable, scalable, and efficient network operations.
The work includes abstracting network complexity, enabling self-service, improving observability, and reducing operational risk.
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Role Overview
The role is described as a Senior Software Engineer focused on data center network tooling.
The engineer will build software platforms, automation, and services that improve reliable, scalable, and efficient network operations.
The work includes abstracting network complexity, enabling self-service, improving observability, and reducing operational risk.
Software and Platform Development
- Design, develop, and maintain software platforms and services for data center network infrastructure.
- Build APIs, workflows, and user-facing tools for self-service provisioning and change management.
- Develop reliable, testable, and documented code.
- Participate in architecture and design reviews.
Network Automation and Reliability
- Translate network requirements into scalable software solutions.
- Build configuration management, validation, deployment, infrastructure-as-code, and configuration-as-code automation.
- Integrate tooling with CI/CD and change-control processes.
- Improve network visibility, telemetry ingestion, alerting, resilience, scalability, and production security.
- Partner with SRE and operations teams to improve MTTR and reduce incident recurrence.
Collaboration and Technical Leadership
- Work with network engineers to model network intent, topology, and policy in software.
- Collaborate with security, platform, cloud, and application teams on infrastructure integrations.
- Lead by example in code quality, system design, and operational ownership.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.
- Drive technical decisions balancing speed, reliability, and maintainability.
Required Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience is required.
- The role requires 5+ to 7.5 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Python, Go, or Java, is required.
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs or internal developer platforms, networking concepts, automation frameworks, CI/CD, and version control is required.
- Strong understanding of testing, code reviews, and production operations is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with network automation or infrastructure platforms is preferred.
- Data center networking experience with EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, or spine-leaf architectures is preferred.
- Experience integrating network devices, controllers, or vendor APIs is preferred.
- Telemetry, time-series data, monitoring, cloud or hybrid infrastructure, and infrastructure security exposure are preferred.
Primary Skills
- Primary skills listed are Python, Django, SQL, CI/CD, and DevOps.
Compensation Information
- The posting states that base pay is part of Comcast’s total rewards and that most non-sales positions may be eligible for a bonus.
- No specific compensation amount or pay cadence is provided.
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