Software Engineer, Ad Serving Platform at Scale

Comcast Advertising; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

FreeWheel is part of Comcast and sits at the core of ads technology, processing billions of ad auctions daily through its Buyercloud Ad Serving platform. The role focuses on designing data-driven features and scaling the service while optimizing performance and hosting costs, in a Linux-based environment.

As a Software Engineer 3, you will collaborate across teams, contribute to the observability stack, and participate in on-call rotations, with duties spanning documentation and incident

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Significant experience with compiled languages, such as C++, Java, Rust, and Go.
• Experience with building systems at scale and data modeling.
• Experience working in a Linux ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data-driven and model-driven features for our customers to execute their marketing campaigns effectively.
• Scale our 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 any issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations and be an escalation contact for service incidents.
• Write systems documentation, playbooks, and other instructional manuals.

Skills

C++

Java

Go

Distributed Systems

Kubernetes

AWS Cloud

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

FreeWheel is part of Comcast and sits at the core of ads technology, processing billions of ad auctions daily through its Buyercloud Ad Serving platform. The role focuses on designing data-driven features and scaling the service while optimizing performance and hosting costs, in a Linux-based environment.

As a Software Engineer 3, you will collaborate across teams, contribute to the observability stack, and participate in on-call rotations, with duties spanning documentation and incident