Principal Software Engineer II
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This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Here, our employees don’t just have jobs, they're building careers. That’s why we offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant’s criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2025-11-24 12:00 AM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between $124,000.00 and $220,000.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
Get to Know Us Charter Communications provides superior communication and entertainment products for residential and business customers through the Spectrum brand. Our offerings include Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice. Beyond our connectivity solutions, we also provide local news, programming and regional sports via Spectrum Networks and multiscreen advertising solutions via Spectrum Reach. When you join our team, you’ll be keeping our customers connected to what matters most in 41 states across the U.S. Watch this video to learn more.
Grow Your Career Here We’re committed to growing a workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve – providing opportunities for employment and advancement to all team members. Spectrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including job seekers with disabilities and veterans. Learn about Life at Spectrum.
Seeking an opportunity to shape the future of web service infrastructure for next-generation products? As Principal Software Engineer II at Spectrum, you will be responsible for senior technical leadership for a new Connected Home – Embedded Software Engineering team focused on developing solutions for CPE (DOCSIS, PON, WiFi router, and WiFi extender).
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Oversee complex and critical projects that involve several technical systems and constituents.
- Design, implement, monitor, enhance and troubleshoot systems in assigned areas.
- Write code and integrate packages (software/application), and writing supporting test cases: (e.g. unit, devtest, automation) for various project assignments and provide recommendations to peer review coding sessions.
- Create custom embedded linux distributions leveraging OpenWRT, or Ubuntu and tools such as Yocto.
- Understand and adhere to Spectrum coding best practices and principles when developing or integrating code as well as when conducting code reviews.
- Bring a sense of urgency to ensuring Jira ticket / and confluence documentation hygiene.
- Be curious, and relentless in pursuit of solutioning; analyze and revise existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary.
- Be curious, and relentless in pursuit of solutioning; analyze and revise existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary.
- Maintain subject matter expertise in embedded Linux software programming in language C, domain architecture, industry tools and trends in order to give strategic recommendation and provide technical support to these areas as needed.
- Utilize GitLab pipelines; create and run ansible playbooks.
Document Root Cause Analysis stemming from difficulties in existing system logic.
Test and review system designs.
Mentor and guide the work of senior technical staff.
Develop embedded software engineering solutions via Linux / C / RUST.
- Develop microservices using AWS and Netflix OSS.
- Design, develop, and implement software proposals with variable options. Estimate scope of work.
Create project documentation. Implement designs, execute project deliverables, and follow through with project managers and product owners.
Provide technical leadership and innovation on software projects through all phases of development lifecycle.
- Work with OEM Chipset vendors and Original Equipment Manufacturers to architect, build and test new CPE firmware and features.
Working Conditions
- Office environment
What You’ll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent work experience
Experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience
Skills
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
- Thorough understanding of software engineering and object-oriented design principles.
- Effective and current development experience in Java and web technologies.
- Experience with dependency management and continuous integration testing tools.
- Leadership and technical decisiveness related to software development projects.
- Extensive knowledge and implementation with open source software (Spring, Hibernate, Apache Commons, Tomcat, MySQL, Guava, Tomcat, and NoSQL solutions) Java, Spring, Google Guice, JPA/Hibernate, Databases, RESTful web services, AWS, Micro services, Netflix OSS, Jersey, SOAP web services, Axis, JMS, ESB’s, XML, XSD, XSL, JSON, HTML5, JavaScript, Apache open source libraries, Maven, Git, Eclipse/NetBeans/IntelliJ, continuous integration testing, shell scripting, Ruby.
- Embedded software engineering experience in Linux / C / RUST.
Preferred Qualifications
- Cable / Telecommunications: RDK-B, RDK-V, DOCSIS, OpenWRT.
- Protocols: TR069, TR369, SNMP, TCP, UDP, TCP/IP, DHCP, IPv4, IPv6, MQTT.
- Data Models:TR181, TR143.
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes.
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Here, our employees don’t just have jobs, they're building careers. That’s why we offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant’s criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2025-11-24 12:00 AM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between $124,000.00 and $220,000.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
Get to Know Us Charter Communications provides superior communication and entertainment products for residential and business customers through the Spectrum brand. Our offerings include Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice. Beyond our connectivity solutions, we also provide local news, programming and regional sports via Spectrum Networks and multiscreen advertising solutions via Spectrum Reach. When you join our team, you’ll be keeping our customers connected to what matters most in 41 states across the U.S. Watch this video to learn more.
Grow Your Career Here We’re committed to growing a workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve – providing opportunities for employment and advancement to all team members. Spectrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including job seekers with disabilities and veterans. Learn about Life at Spectrum.
