Principal Engineer

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Principal EngineerFull-timeBusiness Segment: Media Group Functions Compensation: USD 180000 - USD 230000 - yearlyCompany DescriptionNBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.Job DescriptionThe Media Group at NBCU supports a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, and NBCU International. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.We are seeking a Principal Engineer to join our Content Delivery Engineering team, reporting to the Global Video Engineering organization within Global Streaming Technology at NBCUniversal. The role is based at our facilities in New York City or Stamford, Connecticut and is focused on leading design, ensuring reliability and driving innovation, to deliver world-class live sports and entertainment at scale, to our subscribers across US and Europe for Peacock, SkyShowtime, and Now & Wow.Our team specializes in large-scale Content Delivery Network design, deployment and operation, content steering, performance telemetry, real-time analytics and interfacing with service origins via resilient workflows across business units, supporting solutions such as dynamic ad insertion, manifest manipulation and low-latency streaming to audience concurrency in the millions.ResponsibilitiesAuthor, sponsor or steer designs for multi-platform technical solutions across spaces such as content steering and delivery, performance data analytics & decisioning - for deployment across our product portfolio and infrastructure, remaining hands-on during execution and delivery.Drive or guide complex technical debate with key management, architectural, design and operational teams throughout Comcast’s businesses and third-party vendors, building relationships to improve our delivery end to end.Conduct rigorous, in-depth reviews of existing and planned systems & methods, challenging the status quo, inspiring innovation and managing change.Be well-informed and impartial, constructing and leading request-for-proposal processes, delivering associated proof-of-concept design, execution and measurement.Enjoy tracking industry trends and maintaining an international, multi-cultural business outlook, with an eye towards...