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Software Engineer - DevX Protect Team
- Comcast (Philadelphia, PA)
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Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)
Job Summary
Build the Future of Developer Experience at Comcast
Are you driven by the idea of simplifying the lives of fellow engineers? Do you want to work where innovation, growth, and impact intersect? Comcast’s Developer Experience (DevX) organization is looking for a passionate Software Development Engineer 3 to join our DevX Protect team.
At DevX, we’re reimagining the developer journey—removing friction, reducing cognitive load, and embedding security and privacy from the ground up. We exist to make developers more productive, secure, and inspired.
What You’ll Do
As an SDE3 on the DevX Protect team, you will play a critical role in enabling thousands of Comcast engineers to build secure, scalable, and privacy-conscious applications—without slowing them down. You’ll design intuitive systems that guide developers to act on security insights effortlessly, giving them more time to focus on what they do best: building great software.
DevX Protect team enables other development teams in Comcast to lower security and privacy risks and improve compliance while reducing operational friction involved in maintaining security and compliance throughout the development lifecycle. We provide action-oriented insights, prioritized worklists, and easy to follow workflows that guide developer teams to address vulnerabilities and findings. We also develop security and privacy solutions that enable developer teams to execute remediation with less friction and complexity.
Job Description
In this role, you will:
+ Collaborate with product managers, security/privacy SMEs, and engineers to translate user needs into innovative technical solutions.
+ Design, build, and maintain high-quality software applications and tools that support security, privacy, and compliance.
+ Lead by example—writing clean, testable, and efficient code while mentoring junior engineers and sharing best practices.
+ Integrate with systems such as vulnerability scanners, compliance tools, and DevOps pipelines to provide actionable intelligence to developers.
+ Champion developer-centric thinking, focusing on usability and feedback loops to continually improve the experience.
+ Contribute to our team culture through documentation, demos, tech talks, and participation in hackathons, lab weeks and guild events.
+ Explore and make use of AI tools to innovate and enable efficient code writing and operationalize AI utilization in our software development process.
What You’ll Bring
+ Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
+ **6** **+ years** of experience in enterprise software development.
+ Hands-on proficiency with **Python** , **Java, React** , **Node.js** , **TypeScript** , **JavaScript** , and **Material UI** .
+ Experience with **REST APIs** , **GraphQL** , and **WebSocket** -based systems.
+ Knowledge of **unit testing frameworks** like PyUnit or JUnit.
+ Familiarity with **SQL/NoSQL** databases and monitoring tools (e.g., **Splunk** , **ELK** , **Prometheus** ).
+ Exposure to **CI/CD** , **Docker** , **Rancher** , or related infrastructure-as-code tooling.
+ Strong understanding of **secure development practices** , including auth, encryption, and threat modeling.
+ Expertise in **Microservice** and **Event-Driven Architectures** .
+ **3+ years** working with **AWS** cloud services.
+ Experience with **LLM integration** (e.g., using Python to call AI models) is a big plus.
+ Experienced and/or deep familiarity in building end-to-end software solutions across full software development lifecycle with continuous integration, test-driven development, and agile, scrum development methodologies
+ Open to using variety of open-source technologies and cloud services as needed
+ A good understanding of ETL processes and tools is a plus
+ Demonstrated skills and experience with debugging, root cause analysis, and performance optimization in Cloud, On-Premises or Hybrid platforms.
+ Experienced in end-to-end software solutions, CI/CD, test-driven development, and agile methodologies.
+ Familiarity with open-source technologies, cloud services, ETL processes, and debugging in various platforms.
Why This Team? Why Now?
+ **Direct impact:** Influence the developer workflow for thousands of engineers across Comcast.
+ **Security without friction:** Help teams meet security and privacy goals **without** slowing innovation.
+ **Innovation-driven:** We embrace experimentation—AI, automation, and emerging tech aren’t just buzzwords here.
+ **Investing in YOU:** Participate in **Lab Weeks** , tech conferences, peer forums, mentorship, and more.
Our Team Values
•** **Pathway to Yes
We solve real problems with working solutions and collaborate closely with our customers to get to “yes.”
•** **Culture of Curiosity
We love to learn, experiment, and grow together. Humility and a hunger to improve drive our decisions.
•** **Lead with Purpose
We align around outcomes and support each other in pursuing them with intention.
•** **Team Spirit
We value **attitude over ego** . We believe diverse backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger—and we’re committed to building a space where everyone belongs.
Let’s Build a Better Developer Experience, Together
This is more than a job. It’s a chance to shape how world-class developers build secure, reliable software at scale. If you're passionate about developer productivity, security, and impact— **we want to hear from you.**
Apply today and bring your talents to a place where they’ll make a difference—Comcast DevX.
Comcast is proud to be 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.
Skills:
Microservice Framework; Java; Python (Programming Language); GraphQL (Query Language); Node.js
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary (https://jobs.comcast.com/benefits) on our careers site for more details.
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
**Job Family Group:** Engineering
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