GoLang Software Engineer, Identity Service- Freewheel
Company: Comcast
Location: IL - Chicago, 350 N. Orleans St 1300N
Salary: $109.8k - $164.6k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-09
About this role
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
As a Software Engineer on the Identity Service Team, you will contribute to the design, development, and delivery of scalable, cloud-native backend systems that power identity resolution, audience targeting, and high-throughput advertising workloads. You will build and maintain high-performance, low-latency microservices primarily using Golang within an AWS/EKS environment while helping drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across distributed systems.
In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams including Product, Architecture, SRE, QA, Compliance, and Data Engineering to deliver resilient and observable platform capabilities.
The ideal candidate has strong experience developing cloud-native microservices, managing CI/CD pipelines, working within modern data ecosystem technologies, and is a collaborative engineer who thrives in fast-paced agile environments and passionate about building reliable, scalable backend platforms.
Job Description
Core Responsibilities:
- Design and implement identity services that support audience building, identity resolution, measurement, and targeting across multiple devices / channels.
- Develop and maintain; API’s, Microservices, and components for audience/identity workflows (e.g., ID mapping, audience lookup, segment evaluation).
- Own end-to-end features from design through deployment: requirements clarification, technical design, implementation, code review, automated testing, observability, and rollout.
- Ensure reliability and operational excellence of identit...