GoLang Software Engineer for Scalable Ad Tech Platform

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

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, develop, and deliver scalable cloud-based solutions for advertising platforms. You will collaborate with product and engineering leadership and work with a broad group of stakeholders including compliance, architecture, SRE, and QA.

You’ll contribute to measurement and attribution infrastructure, build APIs and UIs for measurement data, and support real‑time and batch processing, pixel/conversion tools, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/engineering.
• 3+ years of hands-on GoLang programming.
• Demonstrated experience with microservices and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or EKS.
• Practical skill operating with AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI, including services like S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, etc.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform).
• Strong SQL skills with exposure to databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite).
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK).
• Proven ability to debug and resolve issues within scoped features.

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 and cloud-native tools; automate CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Develop and maintain scalable software solutions across cloud environments; work with Go, Java, Python, and other languages as needed.
• Build and scale measurement infrastructure for outcome-based optimization and attribution modeling.
• Create APIs, reporting, and UIs to bring measurement metrics into buying/selling workflows.
• Support features like pixel, conversion APIs, clean-room data, real-time/batch processing, and self-service tools.
• Write automated unit/integration tests; ensure adherence to requirements and prevent defects.
• Understand FreeWheel’s engineering ecosystem and contribute to buy-vs-build discussions.
• Ensure delivered software is scalable, available, and maintainable.
• Exercise independent judgment and work with stakeholders across teams.
• Be available for nights/weekends as needed and perform other duties.

Skills

GoLang

Microservices

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Terraform

SQL

Datadog/Prometheus

Debugging

Collaboration

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

GitHub

Bitbucket

Maven

Docker

Kubernetes

Podman

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQLite

Jira

Confluence

Trello

Job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, develop, and deliver scalable cloud-based solutions for advertising platforms. You will collaborate with product and engineering leadership and work with a broad group of stakeholders including compliance, architecture, SRE, and QA.

You’ll contribute to measurement and attribution infrastructure, build APIs and UIs for measurement data, and support real‑time and batch processing, pixel/conversion tools, and