Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Security

Comcast

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Philadelphia, PA
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Comcast is an American telecommunications and media conglomerate, providing cable TV, internet, and phone services under the Xfinity brand, and owning NBCUniversal.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Security

As a Sr. Software Engineer - Cloud Security, you will join the Cloud Security Engineering team to design, build, and operate reliable software platforms. You will transform complex business and technical findings into clear actions by building systems that ingest information from internal and external tools to create workflows, recommendations, and automation. Your daily work involves developing agentic pipelines, designing scalable distributed systems, and writing production-quality backend services. You will utilize Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS services like EC2, Lambda, and S3. Key responsibilities include managing data flows, implementing CI/CD, and providing technical leadership. This role solves cybersecurity problems by creating self-service tools and durable software that handle multi-step processes, ensuring high reliability, observability, and security across cloud-native environments.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

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What you'll do

  • Lead the end-to-end design of complex, scalable, and distributed software systems.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into practical architecture, APIs, and engineering deliverables.
  • Build production-quality backend services using Python and modern API frameworks like FastAPI.
  • Develop data ingestion pipelines and manage relational databases including schemas and data lifecycles.
  • Design self-service tools and platforms to automate workflows and reduce manual processes.
  • Implement systems with robust observability, resiliency, failure handling, and operational safeguards.
  • Research and prototype new approaches for cloud-native development and agentic AI pipelines.
  • Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, and establishing engineering standards.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of production systems.
  • Strong system design and architecture experience for scalable, distributed, and service-oriented systems.
  • Strong hands-on backend engineering experience with Python.
  • Experience with public cloud environments such as AWS.
  • Experience with databases and data modeling, preferably PostgreSQL or similar relational technologies.
  • Experience with Docker, CI/CD, automated testing, and production deployments.
  • Bachelor's Degree (preferred).
  • Experience with FastAPI, AWS services, async processing, or cybersecurity domain (preferred).

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