This role pays less than
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of similar roles. Most pay
$185,500–$221,687
— the shaded band above.
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versus about
$204k
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About Comcast
Comcast is an American telecommunications and media conglomerate, providing cable TV, internet, and phone services under the Xfinity brand, and owning NBCUniversal.
Comcast currently has
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Listed pay typically runs
$137,369–$206,053
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Lead Software Engineer (C++) joins a team building and enhancing a large-scale, real-time advertising platform that operates at massive scale. This role focuses on developing high-performance backend services to process millions of concurrent requests while maintaining ultra-low latency response times across distributed cloud infrastructure. You will design and optimize C++ applications for high Query Per Second workloads, manage complex decisioning logic, and integrate with external demand partners. The work involves building resilient distributed services in multi-region environments and creating efficient data access layers. Key technologies include C++, Python, MySQL, Aerospike, Kafka, Snowflake, and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP. You will be responsible for troubleshooting performance bottlenecks, ensuring high availability, and managing multithreading, memory management, and concurrency to solve critical problems within the core advertising ecosystem and its associated real-time bidding systems.
C++
Distributed Systems
MySQL
Aerospike
Kafka
Snowflake
AWS
Azure
GCP
Python
Microservices
Multithreading
Concurrency
Low-latency
High-availability
Systems Design
Performance Tuning