Sr. Software Engineer

Sr. Software Engineer Full-time Business Segment: Media Group Functions Compensation: USD 120000 - USD 170000 - yearly Company Description NBCUniversal 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.

The 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. As our Senior Software Engineer, you’ll join the Content Delivery Engineering team (CDE) within NBCUniversal’s Global Video Engineering organization in New York City, USA. Your mission is to get involved with delivering outstanding VOD, live event, and linear streaming experiences to millions of viewers across our US, UK, EU, and Africa services - including Peacock, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and NOW/WOW. You’ll collaborate daily with colleagues across the US, UK and beyond – excellent communication skills are essential. Our team specializes in large-scale Multi-Content Delivery Network design and operations, performance telemetry and analytics, selection & interfacing with content origins via multiple workflows - dynamic ad insertion, manifest manipulation and integrating new player technologies.

Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain high-performance software systems and features—primarily in Go—used to deliver world-class video content at massive scale for brands like Peacock, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and NOW/WOW. Build reliable, testable, and user-focused services supporting key streaming workflows, such as VOD, live events, linear channels, dynamic ad insertion, and manifest manipulation. Participate in thoughtful and consistent code reviews that promote high code quality, clear architectural patterns, and healthy engineering culture. Partner closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to architect systems that are highly available, resilient, performant, and fault-tolerant across multiple regions. Leverage observability tooling (metrics, logs, traces) and performance analytics to detect issues proactively and drive fast, data-driven root-cause analysis. Contribute to the design and evolution of multi-CDN strategies, routing logic, and origin workflows that ensure exceptional global streaming performance.