Development Engineer 2

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.
Job Summary
Responsible for contributing to the design, development, testing, and maintenance of backend applications, APIs, and AI-powered services within the Agentic AI Platform team. Works independently on assigned features and enhancements while collaborating with architects, senior engineers, product teams, and cross-functional stakeholders. Develops scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend services that power AI agents, intelligent workflows, enterprise integrations, and automation capabilities.
Job Description
Core Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend applications, APIs, and microservices.
• Develop scalable backend services using Python/Scala/Java
• Build and integrate REST APIs, Graph APIs, and event-driven backend services.
• Develop services that support AI agents, orchestration workflows, and enterprise integrations.
• Work with LLM APIs and AI services to build AI-powered applications and automation solutions.
• Develop and maintain Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines and enterprise knowledge integrations.
• Implement and optimize database queries, data models, and backend processing logic.
• Collaborate with team members to build scalable cloud-native applications.
• Implement logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting for backend services and AI workflows.
• Participate in code reviews and follow secure coding and engineering best practices.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application, integration, and production issues.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment activities.
• Document technical designs, APIs, and implementation details.

Skills and Experience

• 2-5 years of software engineering or backend development experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python/Scala/Java
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservice-based applications.
• Experience with FastAPI, Spring Boot, Flask, or similar backend frameworks.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design principles and software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience working with PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, or similar databases.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tools.
• Understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and messaging platforms such as Kafka or SQS.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Exposure to Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and AI-powered applications.
• Experience integrating AI services such as Azure OpenAI, OpenAI APIs, Claude, Gemini, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with Agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph
• Understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search concepts.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, tool calling, function calling, and AI workflow orchestration concepts.
• Understanding of AI observability, evaluation, monitoring, and responsible AI principles is a plus.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Comcast is 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.
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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
2-5 Years