Sr. Software Engineer- AWS & Python/GO-Lang

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast global advertising technology company, powers the buying, selling, and delivery of premium video advertising across linear TV, connected TV (CTV), and streaming platforms. FreeWheel provides enterprise-scale software and marketplaces that enables programmatic ad‑tech solutions that help media owners, advertisers, and agencies manage, monetize, and measure advertising across linear TV, streaming, and digital video.

Job Description

About the Role:

FreeWheel is now executing a

, with significant testing and development underway on a new cloud platform. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and supporting applications across

, leveraging native cloud services while ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.

This role blends both

with

,

You will collaborate closely with internal engineering teams, vendors, and client services to drive automation, reliability, and operational excellence across large-scale distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, analyze, and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems
• Develop, debug, and optimize backend services and applications
• Build applications that run across multiple cloud platforms, leveraging native cloud services
• Automate routine operational tasks to improve efficiency and reliability
• Provide production support, including monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis
• Support secure configurations, vulnerability remediation, and operational readiness
• Participate in software release cycles, including planning, testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Develop automation tools, scripts, and workflows to streamline processes
• Partner with engineering teams to identify and implement process and platform improvements
• Serve in a rotating on-call rotation, providing 12-hour coverage for one week per month to support production systems.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong backend development, coding, and debugging skills
• Strong Proficiency in one or more of dynamic programming languages:
  Python/Go
• Experience developing and debugging server-side applications or web services
• Strong working expertise with cloud environments (AWS strongly preferred), including native services such as: EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, IAM
• Working knowledge of CI/CD frameworks and orchestration such as: Jenkins, GIT, Kubernetes, Terraform, and/or Docker
• Solid understanding of database structures and SQL
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code concepts

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Skills:

C++ Programming Language; Java; Python (Programming Language)

Salary:

Primary Location Pay Range: $129,515.93 - $194,273.89

Additional Range: This job can be performed in Denver Campus with a Pay Range of $129,515.93 - $203,525.03

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

7-10 Years