GoLang Software Engineer, Identity Service- Freewheel

Comcast

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Work type: On-site
Location: Chicago, IL
Salary: $109,759–$164,638 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago

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TL;DR · GoLang Software Engineer, Identity Service- Freewheel

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As a GoLang Software Engineer on the Identity Service Team at Freewheel, you will design and develop scalable backend systems for identity resolution and audience targeting in a fast-paced agile environment. Your day-to-day responsibilities include building high-performance microservices using Golang within an AWS/EKS setup, ensuring reliability through robust logging and metrics, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient platform capabilities. You will optimize performance and latency, safeguard data quality, and contribute to the continuous improvement of identity targeting codebases. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in cloud-native microservices development, strong Golang skills, and familiarity with AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, and modern data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks.

Skills

Golang AWS EKS Kubernetes Jenkins SQL Snowflake Prometheus Grafana CI/CD Docker Java Python Microservices Kafka Aerospike S3 Datadog ELK_stack

What you'll do

Design and implement identity services for audience building and targeting.
Develop and maintain high-performance microservices using Golang in AWS/EKS.
Ensure operational excellence by implementing robust logging, metrics, alerts.
Optimize performance and latency of identity targeting workloads.
Safeguard data quality through validations and automated checks in pipelines.
Mentor peers and contribute to onboarding and documentation efforts.

What we're looking for

3+ years of experience building scalable backend services and distributed systems.
Strong programming skills in Golang; additional Java or Python microservices experience is valuable.
Proficient with AWS infrastructure, particularly EKS/Kubernetes for container orchestration.
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Jenkins.
Expertise in SQL optimization and working with large-scale datasets.
Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability platforms like Datadog or Prometheus.
Familiarity with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Presto, or EMR.