Software Engineer (GoLang) - 2 Days ONSITE - Chicago, IL - FreeWheel

Comcast • Chicago, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides advertising platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. The MET team builds and maintains platforms for measuring advertising performance across digital and linear channels. It operates privacy-preserving data clean rooms for attribution, reach, and frequency analysis; delivers FreeWheel exposure data reliably and at scale; and ingests client and partner measurement data to support targeting, spend optimization, and audience engagement.

In this role, you will make substantial contributions to the design, development, and delivery of scalable software solutions. The position is primarily an individual-contributor role, with substantial collaboration across product development, project management, compliance, architecture, SRE, QA, and end users. You will apply foundational cloud engineering practices and help build measurement infrastructure and capabilities for advertising workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; the degree is preferred, and equivalent coursework or extensive related professional experience may be considered.
• At least 3 years of hands-on GoLang programming experience.
• Demonstrated experience with microservices and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or EKS.
• Practical experience operating with at least one major cloud provider, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI, including exposure to services such as S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, or equivalents.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Terraform.
• Solid SQL skills and exposure to data platforms such as Aerospike, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Presto, or EMR.
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or the ELK stack.
• Ability to debug and resolve technical issues within scoped features or components.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills and the ability to work effectively on a cross-functional team.
• Ability to adapt and contribute in a fast-paced, agile development environment.
• Hands-on experience with one or more major cloud platforms and a good understanding of automation, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native tools.
• Practical experience with programming, build, containerization, database, and collaboration tools; examples listed include Python, Java, JavaScript, Go, GitHub, Bitbucket, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, JIRA, Confluence, and Trello.
• Relevant work experience listed as 5–7 years.

Nice To Haves

• Interest or experience in the advertising or audience-targeting domain.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management and Engineering leadership to gather requirements for technical components, applications, services, and platforms.
• Build and scale measurement infrastructure for outcome-based optimization, beginning 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 solutions that bring measurement metrics into buying and selling workflows through APIs, reporting, and user interfaces.
• Support product capabilities including universal pixel, conversion APIs, clean-room data, real-time and batch processing, and self-service measurement tools.
• Create automated unit and integration tests to validate requirements and prevent defects.
• Develop understanding of the broader FreeWheel Engineering ecosystem and contribute to buy-versus-build-versus-broker discussions.
• Ensure delivered software is scalable, available, and maintainable.
• Exercise independent judgment and discretion in significant matters.
• Maintain regular, consistent, and punctual attendance; work nights and weekends or variable schedules as necessary.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Follow the company’s Operating Principles, prioritize customer experience, collaborate as a team, support inclusion, and contribute to customer feedback and business results.

Benefits

• Eligible employees receive a range of benefits, with options and guidance intended to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being; details are available in the company’s compensation and benefits summary.
• Most non-sales positions are eligible for a bonus.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level