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Lead Software Engineer (Data)-3816

Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Req ID R417979

Job Type Full Time

Category Computer Engineering

Date posted 08/21/2025

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Job Description

DUTIES: Provide technical leadership to a team responsible for creating and maintaining large scale Big Data systems and Data Environments, used to ingest and process large data sets and provide actionable recommendations using data warehousing and business intelligence; design, develop, test, and maintain software that extracts, transforms, and loads large volumes of data; develop software systems in an Agile development environment and on Kubernetes within AWS cloud-based platform using SQL, Golang, Python, Presto, Spark, Datadog, Terraform, Jenkins, Scala, Apache Hadoop, Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS Elastic MapReduce; deploy software on AWS using Terraform; develop Microservices API systems to support overall product development; store relational data in MySQL to support API and data processing applications; concurrently execute data processing software using multithreading; write code and scripts to extract MRM ad logs from FreeWheel Big Data platforms, and load MRM ad logs and campaign data; perform audience targeting; ingest audience, identity, and segment data; create dashboards and monitors on Datadog to ensure 24x7 availability of critical software deployments; build new software products and web frontend frameworks; analyze product specifications, write technical specs, create monitoring dashboards, develop test suites, design workflows, and setup database schemas and tables; interface with global engineering, operations, services, and business operations teams to execute proof of concepts and incorporate new requirements; improve system performance and ensure availability and scalability of services; provide production support for data processing systems running on AWS cloud and Snowflake; troubleshoot data processing problems running on distributed systems, and functional and performance issues on software modules; debug functional and performance issues on software modules running on Snowflake, Databricks, and Spark; and guide and mentor junior-level engineers. Position is eligible for 100% remote work.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, any Engineering, or related technical field, and seven (7) years of experience developing software in an Agile development environment using SQL, Scala, Java, or Python; of which five (5) years include using Kubernetes; using AWS; of which three (3) years of experience include using Presto or Spark, Datadog or similar observability tool, Terraform, and Jenkins; and of which one (1) year of experience includes using Snowflake or Databricks or Google BigQuery; storing relational data in MySQL or Postgres to support API and data processing applications; and debugging functional and performance issues on software modules

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Skills:

Kubernetes; Structured Query Language (SQL); Agile Environments

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