Comcast
Lead Backend Engineer
$142K–$213K
DC - Washington, 1325 G ST NW STE 300 · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend focus; 4–6+ years leading technical projects and delivering production systems. The posting also lists 7–10 years of relevant work experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree preferred; coursework and experience, or extensive related professional experience, may also be considered.
About the job
Leads the design, development, and delivery of scalable, cloud-native backend systems, setting technical direction and mentoring engineers.
What you'll do
- Lead distributed backend system design, development, and delivery; define architecture, standards, and best practices.
- Build and operate cloud-native services, drive technical planning and execution, and uphold reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
- Partner with cross-functional teams and mentor engineers through reviews, design discussions, and coaching.
What they ask for
- Expert-level proficiency in Golang.
- Strong experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, microservices, distributed systems, REST APIs, CI/CD and DevOps, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, with strong knowledge of concurrency, performance, resiliency, and service reliability.
- Proven technical leadership, project delivery, mentoring, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with video processing, media workflows, or video analytics.
- Experience building LLM-powered applications, AI agents, or agentic workflows; end-to-end product delivery is also preferred.
Pay
USD 141,850.78 - USD 212,776.16 base salary
Tools
Golang, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, REST APIs, CI/CD, SQL/NoSQL
AI focus
Preferred experience building LLM-powered applications, AI agents, or agentic workflows.
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