Senior Data Python Engineer

Comcast

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Work type
On-site
Location
Englewood, COReston, VA
Salary
$135,683–$203,525 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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This role $170k
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This role pays less than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $136,725–$216,075 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $170k versus about $176k for comparable roles.

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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 84 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Data Python Engineer

Sr. Data Python Engineer - FreeWheel joins a team responsible for unifying data ingestion and pipeline strategies to power analytics, reporting, and downstream ad-tech systems. As a technical leader, you will design, build, and optimize high-throughput data ingestion pipelines while developing Python-based microservices for real-time and batch processing. You will lead architectural decisions, author technical design documents, and mentor engineers to ensure performance and scalability across distributed systems. The role requires expertise in Python, SQL, and AWS cloud infrastructure, with experience in CI/CD, Terraform, and Kubernetes. You will work with Snowflake to manage analytics-ready data models and ensure quality across ingestion layers. This position addresses the technical challenge of managing large-scale advertising data within a complex ad-tech ecosystem involving linear TV, connected TV, and streaming platforms.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and optimize high-throughput data ingestion pipelines for large-scale advertising data.
  • Improve performance, reliability, and observability across distributed systems.
  • Lead architectural decisions for unified ingestion frameworks across multiple platforms.
  • Develop and maintain Python-based microservices for real-time and batch ingestion.
  • Author and review technical design documents for complex distributed systems.
  • Mentor engineers and drive best practices in system design and performance tuning.
  • Manage data quality, consistency, and traceability across various ingestion layers.
  • Optimize ingestion patterns to support analytics-ready data models in Snowflake.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of coursework and experience.
  • 7 to 10 years of relevant work experience.
  • 7+ years of experience building data pipelines or distributed backend systems using Python.
  • Proficiency in Python and microservices-based architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with distributed data systems such as Snowflake or Spark.
  • Proficiency in SQL querying.
  • Proven ability to lead design discussions and influence architectural decisions.

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