1 month ago
Base Salary
$153k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize high-performance C++ applications for a large-scale ad-serving platform.
- Build and maintain backend systems processing millions of concurrent requests with low latency and high availability.
- Develop platform capabilities while maintaining stability, scalability, and performance under heavy workloads.
- Enhance systems that process ad requests, communicate with external bidding partners, evaluate responses, and return optimized real-time decisions.
- Design and implement resilient distributed services across multi-region cloud environments.
- Optimize applications for high-QPS and high-concurrency workloads.
- Architect failover, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions with engineering teams.
- Create database queries and data access layers using MySQL and Aerospike.
- Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks across application, database, and infrastructure layers.
- Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical design initiatives.
- Monitor and improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience using C++.
- Experience building and supporting high-volume, high-concurrency distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of multithreading, concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization.
- Experience designing and operating low-latency, real-time applications.
- Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with relational databases, particularly MySQL.
- Familiarity with distributed data stores such as Aerospike, Kafka, or Snowflake.
- Strong understanding of scalable microservices and service-oriented architectures.
- Experience monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance-tuning large-scale production systems.
- Relevant work experience is listed as 7–10 years.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed for the Illinois location at $152,828.79–$229,243.19, with additional bonus eligibility for most non-sales positions; compensation figures are excluded from benefit details.
- Comcast provides benefits and personalized support tools intended to support employees physically, financially, and emotionally.
- The role is subject to Comcast’s equal opportunity employment policy.
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