1 day ago
Base Salary
$131k - $243k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and execution of highly scalable, low-latency backend services for the Buyer Cloud platform.
- Drive multi-team initiatives involving platform reliability, system decomposition, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in distributed workflows operating under strict latency budgets.
- Partner with Product, Infrastructure, SRE, and Data Engineering teams on technical roadmaps and strategy.
- Establish best practices for design reviews, code quality, testing, observability, and incident root-cause analysis.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design coaching, code reviews, and architectural guidance.
- Exercise independent judgment and discretion in significant matters and support additional assigned responsibilities.
- Maintain regular attendance and work nights, weekends, or variable schedules as necessary.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 13+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a Staff or Lead Engineer role.
- Expert-level proficiency in C++, Go, Java, or Rust.
- Proven experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed backend systems in production.
- Deep understanding of concurrency, multithreading, memory management, networking protocols, and Linux performance profiling.
- Experience building containerized, cloud-native services using AWS, Kubernetes, ECS, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience with ultra-low-latency real-time decisioning systems, such as AdTech, DSPs, financial trading, real-time analytics, or high-frequency auction systems, is a bonus.
- Experience with petabyte-scale datasets or systems processing millions of requests per second is a bonus.
- Familiarity with distributed datastores, storage platforms, Aerospike, Snowflake, and event streaming architectures is a bonus.
- Experience modernizing legacy architectures and driving cloud-native adoption is a bonus.
Benefits
- On-site work in Englewood, Colorado or Sunnyvale, California, four days per week.
- The role may require nights, weekends, and variable schedules.
- Eligible employees receive Comcast benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
- Non-sales positions are generally eligible for a bonus in addition to base pay.
- The application window is 30 days from posting unless adjusted based on applicant volume.
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).