Senior C++ Software Engineer, Ad Tech at Scale

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

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking a C++ Software Engineer to join the Buyercloud Ad Serving team. The role focuses on the backbone system that processes billions of ad auctions daily, implementing data-driven features and optimizing performance to deliver rapid, cost-efficient results at scale.

You will work with a distributed team across remote locations, contributing to observability, on-call rotations, and documentation while shaping the next generation of advertising software for a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of building systems at scale.
• Experience with performance optimization, scaling, and data modeling.
• Strong software architecture understanding.
• Significant experience with compiled languages (C++, Java, Rust, Go) with C++ preferred.
• Experience in a Linux ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data-driven and model-driven features for customers’ marketing campaigns.
• Scale distributed application and infrastructure to the next level.
• Optimize algorithms and software architectures to save cloud hosting costs.
• Support and extend the observability stack to capture and alert on issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations and act as escalation contact for incidents.
• Write systems documentation, playbooks, and manuals.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Communication

Software Engineering

System Design

C++

Linux

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking a C++ Software Engineer to join the Buyercloud Ad Serving team. The role focuses on the backbone system that processes billions of ad auctions daily, implementing data-driven features and optimizing performance to deliver rapid, cost-efficient results at scale.

You will work with a distributed team across remote locations, contributing to observability, on-call rotations, and documentation while shaping the next generation of advertising software for a