3 months 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 real-time decisions.
- Design and implement resilient distributed services across multi-region cloud environments.
- Optimize applications for high-QPS and high-concurrency traffic patterns.
- Architect failover, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions with engineering teams.
- Create efficient 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++.
- 7–10 years of relevant work experience is listed.
- 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 and technologies such as Aerospike, Kafka, and Snowflake.
- Strong understanding of scalable microservices and service-oriented architectures.
- Experience monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance-tuning large-scale production systems.
- Python programming, AWS OpsWorks, and systems design are listed skills.
- Applicants may be considered with some combination of coursework and experience or extensive related professional experience in lieu of the stated degree.
Benefits
- Illinois base pay range of $152,828.79–$229,243.19.
- Eligible non-sales employees may receive a bonus.
- Comcast provides benefits and personalized support resources for eligible employees, including physical, financial, and emotional support options.
- The application window is 30 days from posting unless applicant volume causes it to open or close sooner or later.
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About Comcast
Comcast is a U.S.-based media and telecommunications company that sells broadband, video, wireless, and voice services to consumers and businesses under the Xfinity and Comcast Business brands. It also owns NBCUniversal (including NBC, Universal Pictures, and Peacock) and Sky, operating TV networks, film studios, and streaming in the U.S. and Europe. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Philadelphia, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq (CMCSA).