Comcast
Lead Software Engineer- Englewood, CO or Sunnyvale, CA- ONSITE 4X Weely- FreeWheel
$131K–$243K
CO - Englewood, 181 Inverness Dr W +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- CO - Englewood, 181 Inverness Dr W
CA - Sunnyvale, 1050 Enterprise Way #500 - Experience
- Posting lists 13+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a Staff or Lead Engineer role; separately, the Relevant Work Experience field states 10 Years +.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
About the job
Leads technical architecture and engineering practices for FreeWheel’s high-throughput, low-latency Buyer Cloud Ad Serving platform.
What you'll do
- Architect and deliver scalable backend services; improve performance, reliability, and operational excellence across distributed systems.
- Lead cross-team technical initiatives and partner with Product, Infrastructure, SRE, and Data Engineering on roadmaps.
- Set engineering standards and mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural guidance.
What they ask for
- Expertise in a compiled/high-performance language: C++, Go, Java, or Rust.
- Production experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed backend systems.
- Deep knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, memory management, networking, and Linux performance profiling.
- Experience with containerized cloud-native services and observability; bachelor’s or master’s degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with ultra-low-latency real-time decisioning systems or petabyte-scale / millions-of-RPS systems.
- Familiarity with Aerospike, Snowflake, event streaming, or modernizing legacy architectures.
Pay
$160,106.35 - $240,159.53 USD base salary (Colorado); $130,996.11 USD - $242,585.38 USD base salary (California)
Tools
C++, Go, Java, Rust, Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, ECS
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