Comcast - Reston, VA
posted 3 months ago
As the Lead Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at FreeWheel, a Comcast company, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning for the FreeWheel platforms. This position requires you to engage in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, as well as debugging and optimizing code. You will also be responsible for automating routine tasks, working within a team that combines software and technology infrastructure expertise. Your role will involve providing subject matter expertise, resolving complex break/fix scenarios, and collaborating with broader teams as necessary. You will partner with engineering, vendors, and client services to deliver successful technical solutions, all while working with limited supervision and direction. In this position, you will be responsible for the reliability and technical operations of the FreeWheel TV Platform Ad-Serving components. You will lead technical solutions aimed at measuring and improving the reliability, quality, and efficiency of FreeWheel platforms. Your duties will include conducting complex analytical tasks in the planning, deployment, testing, and evaluation of FreeWheel products. You will need to possess an in-depth working knowledge of FreeWheel platforms, infrastructure, internal processes, and teams/partners. Additionally, you will support FreeWheel-powered live events such as the Super Bowl, Olympic Games, March Madness, and FIFA World Cup. You will be plugged into the software release cycle, working closely with developers and tech leads to ensure that software releases are well designed, planned, implemented, released, and monitored. A significant portion of your time, approximately 30%, will be dedicated to tools development, primarily using Python or Golang. This may include tools for Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure Scaling, and more. You will also lead technical solutions for infrastructure and application management, monitoring, and operations with a focus on standardization and automation. Your role will require you to leverage engineering methodologies and technical knowledge in specific areas of focus, lead code-level debugging on issues escalated to the team, and take on-call shifts for incident prevention, response, and retrospection. Furthermore, you will advocate for engineering and technical operations procedures, policies, processes, and SRE best practices, while partnering with developers and vendors to identify and drive improvements in production quality, operational efficiency, and engineering productivity. You will also provide support for the Cybersecurity program needs, including patching, vulnerability cleanup, secure server configuration, testing and validation, and technical controls implementation. Training and coaching peers and junior SRE team members will also be part of your responsibilities, along with exercising independent judgment and discretion in significant matters.