Software Engineer (Python, Java, C++, or GoLang) - Chicago, IL- ONSITE 2X Week- FreeWheel
Comcast4 days ago
Base Salary
$110k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain software, data pipelines, dashboards, and automation for cloud spend, infrastructure utilization, cost per transaction or activation, capacity, reliability, and engineering productivity.
- Translate budgets, forecasts, unit economics, and business cases into engineering requirements and measurable optimization initiatives with Engineering and Finance stakeholders.
- Analyze cloud, platform, and data workloads to identify cost anomalies, inefficient resource use, redundant services, and opportunities to optimize storage, compute, data movement, and workload placement.
- Implement AI- and analytics-enabled solutions for operational automation, forecasting, anomaly detection, delivery acceleration, and engineering and financial decision-making.
- Design and deliver scalable, available, secure, and maintainable cloud-native services using infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability.
- Create integrations between engineering telemetry, cloud billing data, financial planning inputs, and executive reporting while validating data quality and documenting controls.
- Support capacity planning, cost allocation, tagging, chargeback, and forecasting processes across engineering teams.
- Develop unit and integration tests, troubleshoot production and data-quality issues, and follow engineering, security, compliance, and operational standards.
- Communicate technical findings, business value, tradeoffs, risks, and realized savings to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Reduce technical debt, simplify operational workflows, share reusable patterns, and coach teammates on cost-conscious engineering practices.
- Maintain regular attendance and work nights, weekends, or variable schedules as necessary.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, finance, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience using languages such as Python, Go, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Rust, or Scala.
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider and knowledge of cloud billing, resource tagging, usage metrics, or cost-management concepts.
- Experience with LLM, RAG, MCP, or agentic AI concepts.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Terraform.
- Experience with microservices, containers, and orchestration platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, or OKE.
- Strong SQL skills and exposure to data and analytics platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Presto, EMR, PostgreSQL, or Aerospike.
- Experience building dashboards, automated reporting, data pipelines, or observability solutions using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, or business intelligence platforms.
- Ability to analyze technical and financial data, quantify tradeoffs, debug scoped issues, and convert findings into practical engineering actions.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across Engineering, Finance, Product, Architecture, Data, Platform, SRE, compliance, and end-user teams.
- Ability to balance delivery, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability in a fast-paced environment.
- Adtech, FinOps, cloud cost optimization, forecasting, AI-assisted engineering, or advertising and audience-platform experience is preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Onsite work in Chicago, Illinois two days per week.
- Eligible employees receive Comcast benefits and personalized physical, financial, and emotional support resources.
- Most non-sales positions are eligible for a bonus under applicable plans.
Tech Stack
Apache SparkAWSAzureC++DatabricksDatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesNode.jsPostgreSQLPrestoPrometheusPythonRustScalaSnowflakeSQLTerraform
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
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