Comcast

Sr Software Engineer

Comcast
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2 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA or Reston, VA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$130k - $213k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical design and delivery of scalable services and data pipelines for audience segment, taxonomy, metadata, and activation data.
  • Own data ingestion from source onboarding through production operation, including validation, normalization, transformation, deduplication, replacement, add/remove processing, and downstream publication.
  • Design and optimize Snowflake data models, warehouses, queries, tasks, streams, secure data sharing, and workload isolation for high-volume datasets.
  • Apply cloud engineering, automation, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, containerization, and cloud-native development practices.
  • Engineer systems against service-level objectives for availability, latency, freshness, throughput, accuracy, and recovery.
  • Lead architectural reviews and buy-versus-build-versus-broker evaluations while influencing platform-level decisions.
  • Establish test automation standards and comprehensive unit and integration test suites.
  • Champion engineering best practices, design patterns, code quality, and review processes.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and provide technical guidance across teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent coursework and experience.
  • 5-7 years of relevant work experience.
  • At least 3 years of hands-on coding experience in Go, Rust, Node.js, Python, or Scala.
  • At least 2 years of experience with microservices, Kubernetes, or EKS and enterprise cloud services.
  • Experience with AWS, OCI, Azure, or GCP and cloud services such as S3, Object Storage, EMR, Glue, EC2, ECS, Compute, IAM, Lambda, CodeBuild, Athena, Dataflow, Redis, Elasticsearch, RDS, Aurora, and Airflow.
  • Proficiency with CI/CD and automation tools such as Jenkins and Terraform.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with Aerospike, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Presto, or EMR.
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.
  • Experience with distributed data systems, with Snowflake or Spark strongly preferred.
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and collaborate effectively across teams and regions.
  • Advertising industry or audience-targeting experience is a plus.

Benefits

  • Comcast provides benefits and personalized support intended to support employees physically, financially, and emotionally.
  • The position can be performed in Virginia or Illinois, with location-specific base-pay ranges.
  • Most non-sales positions are eligible for a bonus under applicable plans.
  • The application window is generally 30 days from posting, subject to earlier or later closure based on applicant volume.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache SparkAWSAzureDatabricksDatadogElasticsearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesNode.jsPrestoPrometheusPythonRedisRustScalaSnowflakeSQLTerraform

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Comcast

About Comcast

10,000+ employees

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).

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