Development Engineer 4

Job Summary

Responsible for planning and designing new software and web applications. Analyzes, tests and assists with the integration of new applications. Oversees the documentation of all development activity. Trains non-technical personnel. Assists with tracking performance metrics. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. May lead teams or projects and shares expertise.

Job Description

Software Development Engineer 4 – Developer Experience (DevX Protect)

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 4 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 SDE4 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.

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.
• 8+ years of experience in enterprise software development.
• Hands-on proficiency with Python, React, Node.js, Java, 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.
• 4+ 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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

7-10 Years