Senior Backend Engineer, Scalable Video Streaming

Comcast; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Comcast/Xumo is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and integrate backend systems powering a cutting-edge video streaming platform. You will lead backend infrastructure supporting high‑quality streams to millions of viewers across devices.

In this role you’ll design API/data layers, collaborate with product and operations, and drive scalable backend pipelines for ingestion, catalog exports, and scheduling. Remote/hybrid options may apply for a strong candidate.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience of building backend servers (Java).
• 5+ years’ experience of building web service APIs (REST/SOAP) and HTTP/SSL protocol.
• 5+ years’ experience of operating database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB).
• 5+ years’ experience of working with Linux-based operation system (CentOS, OSX).
• Strong experience developing microservices (Docker) on Kubernetes.
• Strong experience with operating servers on cloud-based environments (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).
• Strong leads with designing, implementation skills to approach the solution for any new features or problem solving.
• Self-starter to able to work with minimal supervision for high quality output.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes user and product requirements to design system flow and work processes.
• Develops data storage models based on functional requirements.
• Defines application programming interface access patterns and service integration touchpoints.
• Partners with quality assurance to document integration and test plan.
• Follows software development life cycle to implement new features through substantial programming effort.
• Creates integration tests that run with every code commit.
• Develops automation of service consumption.
• Defines and iterates on configuration parameters to allow software and services to best meet system needs.
• Builds out monitoring and alerting for live application programming interfaces and services.
• Repairs, restores, and repaves backend services.
• Maintains operation stability and corporate standards.
• Works with security team to follow best practices and close vulnerabilities.
• Documents and maintains defects and enhancements in the company issue management system.

Skills

Backend development

RESTful APIs

Software development

Java (Programming Language)

CentOS

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Google Cloud

AWS

Azure

RabbitMQ

Kafka

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MongoDB

Job description

Comcast/Xumo is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and integrate backend systems powering a cutting-edge video streaming platform. You will lead backend infrastructure supporting high‑quality streams to millions of viewers across devices.

In this role you’ll design API/data layers, collaborate with product and operations, and drive scalable backend pipelines for ingestion, catalog exports, and scheduling. Remote/hybrid options may apply for a strong candidate.