Software Engineer 3 (Golang, Java, C++, Rust) - Remote
Job details
FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, comprised of FreeWheel Publishers, FreeWheel Markets, and FreeWheel Advertisers – empowers all segments of The New TV Ecosystem. We are structured to provide the full breadth of solutions the advertising industry needs to achieve their goals. We power the technology, data enablement, and convergent marketplaces required to ensure buyers and sellers can transact across all screens, across all data types, and all sales channels, in order to ensure the ultimate goal – results for marketers. With offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Paris, Beijing, and across the globe, FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, stands to advocate for the entire industry through the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video. Job Summary Beeswax’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 scale. Our employees enjoy a culture of transparency and one with many challenging problems to solve. Whether competing at game night or coming up with bee puns, we remain a close-knit group. Job Description Beeswax is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Ad Serving team. The Ad Serving system is the backbone of Beeswax's business. 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 -- all in under 30ms. AS AN ENGINEER ON THE SERVING TEAM YOU WILL:
- Design and build data-driven / 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
- A deep understanding of what it means to build systems at scale - if you love articles on highscalability.com you’ll fit right in
- A strong grasp of software architecture (either through a degree or from learning it themselves)
- Experience with optimizing performance, scaling and data modeling
- An ability to think about and tackle problems analytically
- Significant experience with compiled programming languages such as C++, Java, Golang, or Rust
- Experience working with data warehousing solutions like Snowflake and distributed databases such as Aerospike
- Comfort in a Linux ecosystem
- An ethic of service and a belief in putting the customer first
- A powerful sense of pragmatism to figure out what needs to be done right versus right now
- A curiosity about technology and a desire to use it to solve problems in all sorts of domains
- An openness to feedback and more than just the spelling skills to know that there’s no I in Team
- An appreciation of repeatability, resilience, observability, and operational simplicity
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