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Sr. Software Engineer - Cloud Security

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Hybrid
Philadelphia, PA
Senior level
Hybrid
Philadelphia, PA
Senior level
Design, build, and operate secure, reliable cloud software platforms and distributed systems. Develop backend APIs, data ingestion pipelines, workflows, automation, and agentic pipelines. Lead architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, and production support while writing high-quality Python code. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, document systems, and evaluate cloud-native, AI, and workflow technologies.
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Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You'll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)
Job Summary
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Security Engineering team, you will design, build, and operate reliable software platforms that transform complex business and technical findings into clear actions teams can take. This is a senior software engineering role in the cybersecurity space, with opportunities to apply AI where it provides practical value. You will build systems that ingest information from multiple internal and external tools, apply business logic, and turn that information into workflows, recommendations, automation, and measurable outcomes. You will also help us develop agentic pipelines that coordinate tools, data, and multi-step processes. Prior AI experience is not required. We are looking for a strong engineer who can learn quickly, evaluate new technologies, and apply them thoughtfully. This is a senior, high-impact engineering role where you will own major technical areas end-to-end. You will design systems of significant complexity, write production-quality code, make sound architectural trade-offs, and lead implementation across services, data flows, workflow automation, and agentic pipelines. You will be expected to reason from first principles, break down ambiguous problems, learn unfamiliar tools quickly, and deliver durable software that can be operated in production.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who combines strong system design expertise with hands-on software engineering and problem-solving ability. This person will take complex or loosely defined problems, create structure around them, evaluate technical tradeoffs, design scalable solutions, and help drive those solutions through implementation and production.
This role is best suited for an engineer who is comfortable operating in ambiguity, asking the right questions, challenging assumptions, and determining how a problem should be solved rather than simply executing against predefined requirements.
Core Responsibilities
  • Lead the end-to-end design of complex, scalable, distributed systems.
  • Translate ambiguous business and technical problems into practical architecture and implementation plans.
  • Break large, multi-step problems into clear services, APIs, workflows, data models, and engineering deliverables.
  • Evaluate architectural tradeoffs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability.
  • Develop self-service tools and platforms that reduce manual processes and enable repeatable workflows.
  • Design reliable systems with appropriate observability, resiliency, retries, failure handling, and operational safeguards.
  • Build production-quality backend services primarily using Python and modern API frameworks such as FastAPI.
  • Design and work with relational databases, including PostgreSQL, ORM patterns, schemas, and data lifecycle management.
  • Build data ingestion and processing capabilities across multiple sources.
  • Provide technical leadership throughout design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
  • Lead technical and code reviews and help establish strong engineering patterns and standards.
  • Mentor other engineers and influence technical direction through strong engineering judgment.
  • Research and prototype new approaches across cloud-native development, workflow automation, data processing, and applied AI.
  • Clearly communicate architecture and engineering decisions through technical designs, diagrams, documentation, and runbooks.

What You'll Need:
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of production systems.
  • Strong system design and architecture experience.
  • Proven ability to solve complex problems with incomplete or ambiguous requirements.
  • Strong hands-on backend engineering experience with Python.
  • Experience designing and building APIs, services, and distributed or service-oriented systems.
  • Experience designing systems for scalability, reliability, maintainability, and failure recovery.
  • Experience with public cloud environments such as AWS.
  • Experience with databases and data modeling, preferably PostgreSQL or similar relational technologies.
  • Experience with Docker, CI/CD, automated testing, and production deployments.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical decisions and Ability to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on with engineering and implementation.

Preferred / Nice to Have:
  • FastAPI
  • AWS EC2, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, or CloudWatch
  • Async/concurrent processing
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Workflow orchestration
  • Cybersecurity domain experience
  • React/TypeScrict
  • Snowflake or Databricks
  • OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
  • AI-assisted development, LLM applications, or agent frameworks

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.
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.
Skills:
Infrastructure As Code (IaC); Amazon Web Services (AWS); Cloud DevOps; System Designs; Technical Leadership; Agentic AI; Python Software Development
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.
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

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