Software Engineer 1

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Software Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in building cutting-edge, audience-enabled advertising products and solutions, leveraging data-driven strategies. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in an agile environment, enjoys tackling complex technical challenges, and is driven by delivering innovative solutions that support business growth. Core Responsibilities: Design and develop client-facing audience products, features, and applications using Golang, build and maintain RESTful API interfaces for seamless integration with external systems, and participate in end-to-end application development, from design to deployment. Design and build scalable, high-performance audience targeting and identity services for our advertising delivery system, ensuring high concurrency, availability, and low-latency performance. Design and develop highly scalable, efficient, and robust big data ingestion and processing pipelines that manage data at scale for audience ingestion and activation, driving business success. Collaborate with project stakeholders and cross-functional teams (including Frontend Service Engineers) to gather product and technical requirements and deliver solutions that fuel rapid business growth. Use your technical and business expertise to design, code, debug, and resolve complex issues in an agile, collaborative environment. Manage a highly reliable, scalable infrastructure on AWS, leveraging Kubernetes and containerization technologies to drive optimal performance and cost-efficiency. Develop and manage self-service data pipeline management tools, ensuring efficient task scheduling, and establishing and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor and enhance the performance of the advertising platform. Bring a data-driven mindset to decision-making and actively participate in team oversight to improve data quality, security, and platform performance. Write and edit documentation, including technical requirements, evaluation plans, test results, and formal recommendations. Stay up to date with technological developments, evaluate competitive applications, and review industry solutions and practices to solve assigned projects. Implement and maintain security protocols to meet company security standards across cloud infrastructure. Qualifications: Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field. 0-1 years of hands-on experience coding in Golang, strong understanding of GRPC protocol and ProtoBuf. 0-1 years of hands-on experience coding in Python, Scala, or Java. 0-1 years of experience in software development. 0-1 years of experience with microservices, Kubernetes, or AWS EKS. 0-1 years of experience with AWS services (e.g., S3, EMR, Glue, EC2, ECS, IAM, Lambda, CodeBuild, Athena, Redis, ElasticSearch, RDS, Aurora, and Airflow). Proficiency in CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Terraform, or similar automation tools. Strong SQL skills with hands-on experience using data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Presto, and EMR. Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack. Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues. Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across teams and regions. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with strong adaptability to changing priorities. Experience in the advertising industry, particularly in audience targeting, is a plus. AWS certification is a bonus.

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is a global leader in advanced advertising technology, enabling seamless transactions across screens, data types, and sales channels. Operating in nine countries, FreeWheel powers global ad insertion and recently launched Universal Ads, a cross-publisher TV advertising platform in collaboration with major media players like NBCUniversal, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Roku. Committed to innovation, inclusivity, and professional growth, FreeWheel fosters a dynamic work environment where diverse perspectives thrive while shaping the future of premium video advertising.