Sr. Data Python Engineer - FreeWheel

Blueface Ltd; Englewood (CO); Hybrid; USD 135,683 - 203,525; Full time

Job summary

Blueface Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance FreeWheel’s data ingestion systems. This role focuses on optimizing pipeline performance and scalability, leveraging strong Python skills, distributed systems knowledge, and AWS experience.

The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor’s Degree and at least 7 years of relevant experience. The position offers a salary range of $135,683.35 - $203,525.03 based on qualifications and experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building data pipelines or distributed backend systems using Python.
• Strong proficiency in Python and microservices-based architectures.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize high-throughput data ingestion pipelines supporting large-scale advertising data.
• Lead architectural decisions for unified ingestion frameworks across FreeWheel platforms.
• Optimize ingestion patterns for analytics-ready data models.

Skills

Python (Programming Language)

Big Data

SQL

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Snowflake

Spark

Job description

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.

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 enable programmatic ad‑tech solutions that help media owners, advertisers, and agencies manage, monetize, and measure advertising across linear TV, streaming, and digital video.

About the Team

The team is responsible for unifying data ingestion and pipeline strategies across FreeWheel, ensuring high‑performance, scalable, and reliable data flows that power analytics, reporting, and downstream ad‑tech systems. The team owns the end‑to‑end data ingestion platform, focusing on performance optimization, architectural consistency, and modern cloud‑native design across multiple data sources and services.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive the design, performance, and evolution of FreeWheel’s data pipeline and ingestion systems. This role emphasizes data pipeline performance, distributed system design, and technical leadership, while partnering closely with platform, data, and product teams. You will play a key role in defining ingestion standards, leading architectural decisions, and ensuring that pipelines scale reliably across FreeWheel’s ad‑tech ecosystem.

Core Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize high‑throughput data ingestion pipelines supporting large‑scale advertising data.
• Improve pipeline performance, reliability, and observability across distributed systems.
• Lead architectural decisions for unified ingestion frameworks across FreeWheel platforms.
• Develop and maintain Python‑based microservices supporting real‑time and batch ingestion.

Technical Leadership & Design

• Serve as a technical leader, driving best practices in system design, performance tuning, and scalability.
• Author and review technical design documents for complex distributed systems.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with data engineering, platform, and product partners.

Data Systems & Analytics Enablement

• Work with Snowflake as a distributed data platform to support downstream analytics and reporting.
• Optimize ingestion patterns for analytics‑ready data models.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and traceability across ingestion layers.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building data pipelines or distributed backend systems using 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 working with distributed data systems (Snowflake or Spark strongly preferred).
• SQL querying.
• Proven ability to lead design discussions and influence architectural decisions.
• Strong understanding of system performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Snowpark or DataBricks experience.
• Experience in ad tech, media, or data‑intensive platforms.
• Familiarity with both batch and streaming ingestion patterns.
• Experience unifying or standardizing ingestion across multiple teams or platforms.
• Background in performance monitoring, observability, and cost optimization in cloud environments.

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.

Skills

• Big Data
• Collaboration
• Python (Programming Language)
• Software Development
• Structured Query Language (SQL)

Compensation

Primary Location Pay Range: $135,683.35 - $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.

Primary Location

Location details are available upon request. The role is based in a Comcast office, with possible remote work options depending on role requirements.

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. 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.