Staff Engineer, Builder Enablement

Staff Engineer, Builder Enablement - NBCUniversal

About NBCUniversal

NBCUniversal is a global leader in media and entertainment, creating world-class content distributed across film, television, and streaming, and brought to life through theme parks and consumer products. Our brands include NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, Bravo, and Peacock. We are committed to improving the communities where we operate and fostering an inclusive culture that reflects our diverse world.

About the Role

As a Staff Engineer on the Builder Enablement team, your mission is to "make the right way the easy way." You will be a founding member of this team, operating at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and enablement. Your primary goal will be to identify common design and implementation needs across Enterprise Engineering and transform them into "paved paths" – clear, reusable solutions that reduce friction and accelerate time-to-value. These paths can include documentation, reference architectures, code templates, IaC modules, shared libraries, or self-service infrastructure tools. You will choose the most effective medium to meet developers where they are and integrate with their existing workflows.

Responsibilities

• Identify common design and implementation needs across application engineering teams and translate them into clear, reusable paved paths that reduce friction and accelerate delivery.
• Create and maintain high-quality documentation, reference architectures, and implementation guides to help engineers build on enterprise platforms and services.
• Develop reusable artifacts such as Terraform or similar modules, code templates, and example implementations that encode best practices.
• Partner with enterprise platform and foundation teams to understand existing capabilities and constraints, incorporating them into cohesive, developer-friendly patterns.
• Collaborate with architects to translate architectural principles and system understanding into practical guidance and working implementations.
• Contribute to and evolve AI-assisted developer workflows, such as agent-based tools or prompt patterns, to help engineers design, scaffold, and operate systems more effectively.
• Evaluate and choose the right medium for enablement (documentation, code, templates, AI-assisted interfaces) based on effectiveness and adoptability.
• Gather feedback from application teams and iterate on paved paths based on real-world usage.
• Help identify gaps in platform capabilities or developer experience and work with foundation teams to influence improvements or new services.
• Advocate for a developer-centric approach to platform adoption, ensuring enterprise capabilities are accessible, understandable, and easy to use.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating production software systems, with a solid understanding of developer tools and workflows.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern infrastructure practices, including infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
• Demonstrated ability to create clear, practical technical guidance that other engineers successfully adopt.
• Experience translating complex systems or platform capabilities into usable patterns and abstractions for other developers.
• Familiarity with developer workflows and tooling (CI/CD, local development, deployment patterns) and how to improve them.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present solutions in an approachable and actionable way.
• A pragmatic mindset focused on usability, adoption, and real-world effectiveness.

Desired Characteristics

• Experience in platform engineering, developer experience (DX), or internal tooling roles.
• Experience creating and maintaining IaC modules, code templates, or reference implementations used across multiple teams.
• Comfort working across multiple abstraction layers and understanding their connections.
• Experience using or building AI-assisted development workflows.
• A strong sense for when to write documentation vs. build tooling vs. provide examples.
• Experience working in large, federated organizations.
• Curiosity and a bias toward simplifying complex systems.
• Ability to gather feedback and continuously improve solutions based on actual usage.

Additional Requirements

• Fully Remote: This position is designated as fully remote.

Benefits

This position is eligible for company-sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks.

NBCUniversal is committed to providing equal employment opportunities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance, reasonable accommodations can be requested.