Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Playout at NBCUniversal
Centennial, CO
$130,000–$160,000from the description
Aug 10, 2026
Centennial, CO
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within NBCUniversal's Distribution Engineering team and focuses on building and operating playout infrastructure for IP video distribution, both on-premises and in the cloud. The engineer will write automation to provision and monitor systems, drive CI/CD pipelines, and own reliability investigations for broadcast playout environments. It suits an experienced infrastructure-software engineer with a strong broadcast or streaming background who defaults to automation and is comfortable with on-call rotation.
Senior level · 5+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 880 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 460–1,150
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 12, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is a genuine hybrid between software/automation development (writing CI/CD pipelines, provisioning code, proof-of-concept deployments) and infrastructure/SRE operations (on-call, monitoring, broadcast playout support), which is why 15-1252 and 15-1244 are both plausible; the emphasis on developing automated methods and driving product release cycles tips the classification toward Software Developers.
Ansible and Terraform are listed together as examples of 'enterprise configuration management tools and automation platforms' — they satisfy the same requirement, so they are captured as a single gate with alternatives rather than two separate hard gates.
AWS, GCP, and Azure are listed as interchangeable examples of a single cloud-expertise requirement; AWS is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, Bash) are listed as interchangeable examples of a single requirement; Python is used as the primary name.
Monitoring/logging tools appear only under 'Desired Characteristics', so they are marked preferred.
DevSecOps appears only under 'Desired Characteristics', so it is marked preferred.
The job location is not explicitly stated in the posting; NBCUniversal's primary headquarters is in New York, NY, which is used as the CBSA. The hybrid schedule (minimum four days in-office per week) confirms a physical location is required.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related degree' with no equivalent-experience substitution offered, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
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