Software Engineer; C++, Python, GoLang, or Java; Onsite - Reston, VA – FreeWheel

Free Wheel, 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

Free Wheel’s mission is to build great advertising software. We offer the most extensible and transparent advertising buying platform in the world, operating at a massive global scale. We don’t just operate a Demand Side Platform (DSP) – we are the platform that powers hundreds of DSPs! As a result, we process trillions of transactions to satisfy millions of dollars’ worth of advertising campaigns every month.

Our employees enjoy a culture of transparency and one with many challenging problems to solve. We value moving fast, building high-quality reliable software, and supporting each other in the service of driving success for our customers’ businesses. Free Wheel is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Buyer cloud (formerly Beeswax) Ad Serving team. The Ad Serving system is the backbone of the Buyer cloud platform.

It listens to billions of ad auctions per day, decides which of our hundreds of customers should participate, and executes complex bidding strategies to provide optimal results, in milliseconds.

Job Description

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.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• 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.

Job Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Communication:
  Speak, listen, and write in a clear, thorough, and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques. Be transparent.
• Organization:
  Set priorities, track work, be transparent.
• Analyze:
  Effective at looking at data to inform an approach or decision.
• Creativity:
  Develop new and unique ways to improve operations of the organization and to create new opportunities.
• Solve Problems:
  Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.

Working conditions:

• The Software Engineer 3 must successfully work with team members located in multiple remote locations and time zones.

Required 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.
• A deep understanding of what it means to build systems at scale.
• Experience with optimizing performance, scaling and data modeling.
• A strong grasp of software architecture.
• Experience working in a Linux ecosystem.

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…