Sr. Golang Software Engineer - Chicago, IL or Reston, VA- ONSITE -

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

Job Description Summary:
We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Golang 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. 

• 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.  

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, guiding the team on best practices, design principles, and troubleshooting methods, and foster a culture of growth and continuous improvement by mentoring junior engineers.  

• 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.  

• 3+ years of hands-on experience coding in Golang, strong understanding of GRPC protocol and ProtoBuf.  

• 3+ years of hands-on experience coding in Golang and 3-5+ years of experience in so