Senior Python Data Engineer – Data Pipeline Leader

Comcast; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 136,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast global advertising technology company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to drive the design, performance, and evolution of its data ingestion systems. You will work on high-throughput pipelines, influence architecture, and partner with platform, data, and product teams to scale solutions across the ad-tech ecosystem.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, Python microservices, and cloud-native patterns, with opportunities to mentor engineers and define ingestion standards

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building data pipelines or distributed backend systems with Python.
• Strong proficiency in Python and microservices-based architectures.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Production experience with CI/CD, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Snowflake or Spark and SQL.
• Proven ability to lead design discussions and influence architectural decisions.
• Strong understanding of system performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize high-throughput data ingestion pipelines.
• Improve pipeline performance, reliability, and observability.
• Lead architectural decisions for unified ingestion frameworks.
• Develop and maintain Python-based microservices for real-time and batch ingestion.

Skills

Python

AWS

Microservices

CI/CD

Terraform

Kubernetes

Snowflake

Spark

SQL

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast global advertising technology company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to drive the design, performance, and evolution of its data ingestion systems. You will work on high-throughput pipelines, influence architecture, and partner with platform, data, and product teams to scale solutions across the ad-tech ecosystem.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, Python microservices, and cloud-native patterns, with opportunities to mentor engineers and define ingestion standards