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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\nThe Software Engineering for Audience and Measurement (SEAM) team builds the audience, identity, and measurement services that help advertisers and publishers reach the right people and understand campaign performance. The team delivers identity resolution, audience segmentation, and privacy-preserving measurement solutions at scale, enabling more effective targeting, optimized spend, and clear insights into advertising impact.We are looking for a Software Engineer that will deliver software, automation, analytics, and cloud optimization solutions that connect engineering performance with financial outcomes. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Optimization, you will be a hands-on individual contributor who partners across Engineering, Finance, Product, Architecture, Data, Platform, and SRE. Your work will improve cost visibility, infrastructure efficiency, developer productivity, operational reliability, and the return on technology investments while supporting scalable audience, identity, measurement, decisioning, and activation platforms.\nJob Description\nCore Responsibilities\nBuild and maintain software, data pipelines, dashboards, and automation that measure cloud spend, infrastructure utilization, cost per transaction or activation, capacity, reliability, and engineering productivity.\n\nPartner with the Manager and Finance stakeholders to translate budgets, forecasts, unit economics, and business cases into actionable engineering requirements and measurable optimization initiatives.\n\nAnalyze cloud, platform, and data workloads to identify cost anomalies, inefficient resource use, redundant services, and opportunities to improve workload placement, storage, compute, and data movement.\n\nImplement AI- and analytics-enabled solutions that automate repetitive operational work, improve forecasting and anomaly detection, accelerate delivery, and surface recommendations for engineering and financial decision-making.\n\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.\n\nWork with Architecture, Platform, Data, SRE, and product engineering teams to evaluate cost-efficient design patterns and participate in buy-versus-build-versus-broker and modernization decisions.\n\nCreate reliable integrations between engineering telemetry, cloud billing data, financial planning inputs, and executive reporting; validate data quality and document definitions, assumptions, and controls.\n\nSupport capacity planning, cost allocation, tagging, chargeback, and forecasting processes that improve financial accountability and budget accuracy across engineering teams.\n\nDevelop automated unit and integration tests, troubleshoot production and data-quality issues, and ensure solutions adhere to engineering, security, compliance, and operational standards.\n\nCommunicate findings and recommendations clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders, including the expected business value, implementation tradeoffs, risks, and realized savings.\n\nContribute to continuous improvement by reducing technical debt, simplifying operational workflows, sharing reusable patterns, and coaching teammates on cost-conscious engineering practices.\n\nStay current on cloud cost-management practices, AI capabilities, data platforms, and engineering productivity tools; prototype and evaluate technologies that can improve operational efficiency.\n\nConsistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.\n\nRegular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.\n\nOther duties and responsibilities as assigned.\n\nThe Ideal Skillset:\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nTypically, 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience using languages such as Python, Go, Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Rust, or Scala.\nExperience with at least one major cloud provider-AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI-and working knowledge of cloud billing, resource tagging, usage metrics, or cost-management concepts.\nLLM/RAG/MCP and Agentic AI \nWorking knowledge of CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code 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.\nAbility to contribute in a fast-paced agile environment while balancing delivery, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability.\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 newideas.\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 performedbyemployeesinthisrole.Itisnotdesignedtocontainorbeinterpretedasa comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.\nSkills\nAnalytics, Data Analysis, Operational EfficiencyCompensation\nIllinois Pay Range: $109,759.26 - $164,638.89Comcast 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\n5-7 YearsComcast is an equal opportunity workplace. 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