FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
Job Summary
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.
Job Description
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, 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.
Use your technical and business expertise to design, code, debug, and resolve complex issues in an agile, collaborative environment.
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.
Write and edit documentation, including technical requirements, evaluation plans, test results, and formal recommendations.
Implement and maintain security protocols to meet company security standards across cloud infrastructure.
Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
2+ years of experience with AWS services (e.g., S3, EMR, Glue, EC2, ECS, IAM, Lambda, CodeBuild, Athena, Redis, ElasticSearch, RDS, Aurora, and Airflow).
Strong SQL skills with hands-on experience using data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Presto, and EMR.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
- Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
- Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
- Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
- Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
- Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
- Drive results and growth.
- Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
- Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Cutting-Edge Technology: Work with modern technology, data stacks, cloud platforms, and real-time processing frameworks.
Innovation-Driven Culture: Collaborate with top engineers, data scientists, and industry leaders, shaping the future of ad tech.
About FreeWheel
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.
About the FreeWheel Targeting Team
The FreeWheel Targeting Team builds cutting-edge, audience-enabled advertising products and solutions focused on audience targeting, identity and measurement, leveraging data-driven strategies. We design and develop scalable, robust client-facing products, APIs, high-performance data pipelines and integrations that empower publishers, simplify advertisers’ connections with diverse audiences, and enhance the viewer experience across devices.
Disclaimer:
- This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Skills:
Java; Python (Programming Language); Go Programming Language
Salary:
Primary Location Pay Range: $91,057.68 - $136,586.52
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Relevant Work Experience
2-5 Years
