Go Backend Engineer — Cloud-Native & Scalable Systems

Comcast; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, seeks an experienced software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable measurement platforms for advertising campaigns. You will contribute to cloud‑based services, data ingestion, and performance modeling in a collaborative, cross‑functional environment.

The role emphasizes hands‑on development, collaboration with product and architecture teams, and delivering reliable software in a cloud setting with CI/CD and test automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of hands‑on programming experience with GoLang.
• Demonstrated experience with microservices and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or EKS.
• Practical skill operating with at least one major cloud provider (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI).
• Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools, such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Terraform.
• Solid SQL skills, with exposure to data platforms like Aerospike, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Presto, or EMR.
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or ELK stack.
• Demonstrated ability to debug and resolve technical issues within scoped features or components.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively within a cross‑functional team.
• Ability to adapt and contribute in a fast‑paced, agile development environment.
• Interest or experience in the advertising or audience targeting domain is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership to gather requirements for components, applications, services, platforms and other technical solutions.
• Possess hands‑on experience with one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, OCI, Azure, or GCP); with a good understanding of automation, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and cloud‑native tools.
• Practical experience with programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, Go, etc.), build (GitHub, Bitbucket, Maven, etc.), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, etc.), database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, etc.).
• Build and scale measurement infrastructure for outcome‑based optimization, starting with lower‑funnel use cases and expanding over time.
• Apply and improve attribution and performance models to quantify campaign outcomes and support reporting, planning, and optimization.
• Create automated unit and integration tests, validating adherence to requirements and preventing escaped defects.
• Develop understanding of the larger engineering ecosystem, contributing to build/buy/broker discussions.
• Ensure that delivered software solutions are scalable, available, and maintainable.

Skills

GoLang

Microservices

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

SQL

Monitoring

Debugging

Collaboration

Agile

Advertising domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Jenkins

Confluence

Job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, seeks an experienced software engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable measurement platforms for advertising campaigns. You will contribute to cloud‑based services, data ingestion, and performance modeling in a collaborative, cross‑functional environment.

The role emphasizes hands‑on development, collaboration with product and architecture teams, and delivering reliable software in a cloud setting with CI/CD and test automation.