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Sr. Software Engineer - Ad Tech & Distributed Systems - FreeWheel

Comcast

Reston, VA · Senior

$141,851 – $212,776

Listed on Comcast’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

A senior engineer role focused on maintaining and improving FreeWheel's ad-tech streaming platform, emphasizing system reliability, customer support, and distributed systems expertise. This suits engineers with backend and infrastructure experience who want to own platform stability while working closely with customers and other teams.

Our summary, not Comcast’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

What they ask for

Required

  • 6–8 years of software development or engineering experience
  • Strong coding and debugging in Scala, Python, or Go
  • Experience with distributed systems and backend services
  • Data processing and large-scale system architecture knowledge
  • SQL and database design proficiency
  • Cloud environment support (AWS or OCI)
  • Automation, monitoring, and observability tools experience
  • CI/CD and SDLC tools familiarity
  • Linux, networking, and infrastructure fundamentals
  • Cybersecurity best practices knowledge
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
  • Willingness to participate in on-call rotations

Nice to have

  • AWS-specific hands-on experience with VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, Lambda

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