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Reporting to the Sr. Manager of Software Development & Engineering, you will remain a hands-on individual contributor, partnering with Engineering, Finance, Product, Architecture, Data, Platform, and SRE. You will translate ambiguous efficiency goals into reliable solutions, guide technical decisions, and validate improvements in unit cost, developer productivity, reliability, and infrastructure. You will promote peer growth by providing technical leadership to more junior engineers, without direct people-management responsibility.\nJob Description\nCore Responsibilities\nIndependently lead complex optimization initiatives from problem definition and technical design through implementation, rollout, and outcome validation. Coordinate dependencies across teams, escalating material risks to appropriate stakeholders.\nArchitect and build reusable software, data pipelines, dashboards, and automation; connecting cloud spend, resource utilization, unit economics, reliability, and engineering productivity across services.\nPartner with engineering and finance leadership, to define baselines, success measures, cost-benefit assumptions, and delivery options; validate realized savings, distinguishing recurring savings from cost avoidance.\nDiagnose systemic inefficiencies across distributed services and data platforms; lead improvements in compute, storage, data movement, capacity, and workload placement. Execute against the aforementioned goals; simultaneously ensuring platform performance and stability.\nDesign and productionize AI- and analytics-enabled forecasting, anomaly detection, and operational automation. Evaluate accuracy, operating cost, security, and human oversight before scaling adoption.\nContribute to the design and delivery of scalable, available, secure, and maintainable services using cloud-native patterns, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability.\nOwn the technical quality of integrations between engineering telemetry, billing, financial planning, and reporting. Establish data contracts, reconciliation checks, lineage, and auditable metric definitions.\nSupport capacity planning, cost allocation, tagging, chargeback, and forecasting processes that improve financial accountability and budget accuracy across engineering teams.\nDevelop automated unit and integration tests, troubleshoot production and data-quality issues, and ensure solutions adhere to engineering, security, compliance, and operational standards.\nMentor (more) junior engineers through design guidance, code reviews, and technical coaching; coordinate technical work on shared initiatives and promote adoption of reusable solutions.\nCommunicate technical recommendations, delivery risks, financial assumptions, and measured outcomes to engineering and business stakeholders; identify follow-on opportunities and recommend priorities to Management\nStay current on cloud cost-management practices, AI capabilities, data platforms, and engineering productivity tools; prototype and evaluate technologies that can improve operational efficiency.\nConsistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.\nRegular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.\nOther duties and responsibilities as assigned.\nThe Ideal Skillset:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nTypically, 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience using languages such as Python, Go, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Rust, or Scala.\nDemonstrated ability to independently turn ambiguous business objectives into technical designs, phased delivery plans, and measurable outcomes across multiple services or teams.\nDeep experience with at least one major cloud provider-AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI-and demonstrated application of billing, utilization, allocation, and capacity data to cloud optimization decisions.\nProficiency designing and operating cloud-native services with CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure as code using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, or equivalent technologies.\nExperience with microservices, containers, and orchestration platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, or OKE.\nStrong SQL skills and exposure to data and analytics platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Presto, EMR, PostgreSQL, or Aerospike.\nExperience building dashboards, automated reporting, data pipelines, or observability solutions using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, or business intelligence platforms.\nAbility to analyze technical and financial data, quantify tradeoffs, debug scoped issues, and turn findings into practical engineering actions.\nStrong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with Engineering, Finance, Product, Architecture, Data, Platform, SRE, compliance, and end users.\nBONUS POINTS:\nAdtech or Advertising industry experience.\nExperience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, forecasting, AI-assisted engineering, or advertising and audience platforms is preferred but not required.\nEmployees at all levels are expected to:\nUnderstand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.\nOwn the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamlessdigital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.\nKnow your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.\nWin as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.\nBe 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.\nDrive results and growth.\nRespect and promote inclusion & diversity.\nDo what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.\nDisclaimer:\nThis 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.\nSkills\nCollaboration, Data Analysis, DesignCompensation\nIllinois Pay Range: $129,515.93 - $194,273.89Comcast 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.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.\nEducation\nBachelor's DegreeWhile 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.Certifications (if applicable)\nRelevant Work Experience\n7-10 YearsComcast is an equal opportunity workplace. 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