What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Platform Engineer position at Spectrum?
Company Overview
Spectrum’s Product and Technology team creates, develops, and operates the nation’s fastest mobile service, most reliable internet service, most viewed live TV app, and the most advanced WiFi, serving nearly 100 million users and 500 million devices. We are transforming the next era of connectivity and entertainment experiences. The diversity of experience available within Spectrum’s Product and Technology team is unmatched and there are opportunities to grow your career as a designer, architect, engineer, developer, operator, or data scientist. We are creative, disciplined, hard-working, complex-problem solvers that believe in collaborating to deliver the highest quality customer experience.
This position is eligible to work in a hybrid work model (combination of in-office and remote days)
JOB SUMMARY
Responsible for design, execution, and ongoing support of mission-critical platforms that enable reporting, analytics, and engineering needs across the organization. Involved in reviewing and creating innovative solutions. Passionate commitment to ship quickly and the ability to overcome technical issues in a cooperative environment.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
Build and maintain systems, supporting millions of active users, with hundreds of millions of daily API calls.
Develop, modify, enhances and implement the infrastructure and APIs supporting our family of applications.
Maintain uptime and uphold SLAs for the platform.
Develop the infrastructure architecture strategies, standards, target architectures and roadmaps.
Monitor and troubleshoot moderate to complex platform quality issues.
Lead or Assist in leading the identification of bottlenecks and bugs, and devising solutions to these problems.
Lead or Assist in leading the implementation of security and advocate for data governance in the company.
Eye towards reducing compute, bandwidth and storage costs.
Ensure alignment to drive cross-platform consistency.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Required Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent experience
Required Related Work Experience and Number of Years
Cloud-based platform engineering role experience - 5
Software development experience (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python) - 3
Exposure to SQL and non-relational databases - 3
WORKING CONDITIONS
Office environment
Spectrum’s Product and Technology team creates, develops, and operates the nation’s fastest mobile service, most reliable internet service, most viewed live TV app, and the most advanced WiFi, serving nearly 100 million users and 500 million devices. We are transforming the next era of connectivity and entertainment experiences. The diversity of experience available within Spectrum’s Product and Technology team is unmatched and there are opportunities to grow your career as a designer, architect, engineer, developer, operator, or data scientist. We are creative, disciplined, hard-working, complex-problem solvers that believe in collaborating to deliver the highest quality customer experience.
This position is eligible to work in a hybrid work model (combination of in-office and remote days)
JOB SUMMARY
Responsible for design, execution, and ongoing support of mission-critical platforms that enable reporting, analytics, and engineering needs across the organization. Involved in reviewing and creating innovative solutions. Passionate commitment to ship quickly and the ability to overcome technical issues in a cooperative environment.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
Build and maintain systems, supporting millions of active users, with hundreds of millions of daily API calls.
Develop, modify, enhances and implement the infrastructure and APIs supporting our family of applications.
Maintain uptime and uphold SLAs for the platform.
Develop the infrastructure architecture strategies, standards, target architectures and roadmaps.
Monitor and troubleshoot moderate to complex platform quality issues.
Lead or Assist in leading the identification of bottlenecks and bugs, and devising solutions to these problems.
Lead or Assist in leading the implementation of security and advocate for data governance in the company.
Eye towards reducing compute, bandwidth and storage costs.
Ensure alignment to drive cross-platform consistency.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Required Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
- Demonstrated in-depth understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures and algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis).
- Experience with building cloud-based, highly-automated, near real time data processing platforms.
- Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills, especially in complex systems.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Solid foundation in “bridging the divide” between software products and the infrastructure that runs it.
- Demonstrated in-depth written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated in-depth analytical and troubleshooting abilities.
Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent experience
Required Related Work Experience and Number of Years
Cloud-based platform engineering role experience - 5
Software development experience (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python) - 3
Exposure to SQL and non-relational databases - 3
WORKING CONDITIONS
Office environment
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