Sr Software Engineer, Content Services

Job Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.
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 Description
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Content Services team, you will play a critical role in building and evolving the core backend services that power NBCUniversal's digital experiences across web, mobile, and OTT platforms. These services manage and deliver digital content-articles, video metadata, editorial data, and more-at scale and in real time.
You'll work on high-performance, reliable APIs built using Java, Go, GraphQL, and REST, ensuring robust content delivery systems that are foundational to our digital products. You'll collaborate with product managers, designers, SREs, and other engineers to build software that is efficient, scalable, and easy to maintain.
You will contribute not only through strong code, but also through mentorship, architectural input, and a commitment to engineering excellence and team growth.
What We Value
Senior Software Engineers at NBCUniversal go beyond writing code. They mentor their teams, influence technical direction, and contribute to a culture of quality and innovation. They partner across functions to deliver systems that meet the evolving needs of our users, ensuring everything we build is reliable, scalable, and aligned with business priorities.
Qualifications

Responsibilities
Leadership
• Partner with product, analytics, and design to define clear, practical requirements
• Mentor junior engineers through design and code reviews, pairing, and onboarding
• Promote engineering best practices across the team
• Identify and solve systemic team issues that impact productivity or quality
• Participate in and help guide conversations around technical direction and media industry trends
• Champion a user-first mindset, advocating for solutions that enhance content performance and editorial experience
Technical
• Design and deliver end-to-end services that handle digital content such as articles, video metadata, and editorial assets
• Build and maintain APIs using Java, Go, GraphQL, and REST
• Ensure systems are scalable, performant, and secure under real-world traffic and constraints
• Promote test coverage, code quality, and secure development practices
• Drive adoption of reusable patterns and help evolve platform capabilities
• Debug, profile, and optimize across multiple layers of the stack
• Participate in RFCs and provide thought leadership on service architecture and API design
• Collaborate with SREs to ensure services are observable and production-ready
Delivery
• Scope large initiatives and epics; break down complex problems into actionable tasks
• Proactively communicate risks, timelines, and blockers
• Balance competing priorities from editorial, product, and platform teams
• Support the team in achieving realistic delivery timelines while maintaining code quality and sustainable velocity
Communication & Collaboration
• Partner across content, video, data, and UX teams to define and deliver cohesive content experiences
• Participate in all levels of technical hiring to help scale the team
• Create and maintain documentation for critical systems
• Communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Actively participate in post-incident reviews and cross-team discussions
Must-Haves:
• Strong server-side engineering experience in large-scale, high-availability environments
• Strong experience in Java and Go (Golang)
• Experience building and scaling GraphQL and REST APIs
• Deep understanding of service design, API modeling, and distributed systems architecture
• Familiarity with digital content systems-CMS, metadata, content delivery, video delivery
• Proven ability to write secure, maintainable, and testable code
• Experience working in agile teams with strong delivery and collaboration practices
• Strong understanding of observability (logs, metrics, tracing) and performance tuning
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills
Preferred:
• Experience in the media or publishing industry
• Familiarity with content modeling, media taxonomies, and editorial workflows
• Exposure to content delivery networks (CDNs), caching strategies, or video streaming architectures
• Contributions to open-source projects or published technical writing
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
What We Offer
At CNBC Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, you'll have access to great perks and amenities:
• Sweat it out – Free onsite fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment, plus daily group classes
• Eat up – Gourmet cafeteria with daily specials plus soup and salad bars
• Commute-friendly – Free shuttle transportation to and from multiple locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Jersey City
• Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
• This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $155,000-$175,000

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