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FreeWheel

Sr. Data Python Engineer - FreeWheel

pythonmicroservicesawsci/cdterraformkubernetessnowflakesparksqldata pipelinesdistributed systemsad techdata ingestionperformance optimizationcloud

Key details

Salary

$136K – $204K

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

5-10

Location

Englewood, United States

Full job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, optimize, and lead the development of high-throughput data ingestion pipelines and distributed backend systems supporting large-scale advertising data. The role requires 7+ years experience with Python, microservices, AWS, CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, and distributed data platforms such as Snowflake or Spark. Responsibilities include improving pipeline performance, leading architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, collaborating cross-functionally, and ensuring data quality and analytics enablement. A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is preferred. Salary range is $135,683.35 to $203,525.03, location Englewood, Colorado.

What you'll do

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Requirements

  • 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

Tech stack

PythonmicroservicesAWSCI/CDTerraformKubernetesSnowflakeSparkSQLSnowparkDataBricks

Benefits

Base pay within range $135,683.35 - $203,525.03 dependent on experienceCommission for sales positions, Bonus for most non-sales positionsBest-in-class benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional well-beingArray of options, expert guidance, and always-on tools personalized to employee needs

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