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Manager, Software Engineering (C++, GoLang, or Java) - 2 Days Onsite - Reston, VA - FreeWheel

Comcast

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Jun 22, 2026

Location
VA - Reston, 11951 Freedom Dr Ste 900, United States of America
Type
Full-time
Department
Engineering
Seniority
Manager
Education
Master
Source
Workday

Description

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

FreeWheel’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.

FreeWheel is looking for a Manager, Software Engineering to join our Buyercloud (formerly Beeswax) Ad Serving team. The Ad Serving system is the backbone of the Buyercloud 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:

  • Manage a team of software engineers, providing them with direction, guidance, and opportunities for growth. 
  • Collaborate with the BuyerCloud Product Management team to deliver new features to Buyercloud customers. 
  • Provide guidance on technical architecture, design philosophies, and engineering practices for your team. 
  • Drive improvements to Ad Serving software infrastructure. 
  • Ensure adherence to deadlines, specifications, and budgets. 
  • Review team members’ work to ensure quality to team standards. 
  • Provide technical support and training in Ad Serving capabilities. 
  • Implement and review employee performance metrics. 
  • Stay abreast of emerging trends and technologies. 
  • 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.
  • Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

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, and 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.  
  • Lead: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness. Positively influence others to achieve results in the organization's best interest.  
  • Plan: Determine strategies to move the organization forward, set goals, create, and implement action plans, and evaluate the process and results.   
  • 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 Manager, Software Engineering, must successfully work with team members located in multiple remote locations and time zones. Working conditions agree with conditions described within FreeWheel’s company handbook unless explicitly noted in this document.  

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years related experience with technical leadership.  Experience in the media or advertising industry is a huge plus. 
  • 10+ years of overall software development experience. 
  • A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 
  • Proficient in building distributed applications using object-oriented languages such as C++, Java, Rust, or Go. 
  • Experience in deploying and operating applications in a public cloud provider. 
  • Proficient in Jira, Confluence, Git, and MS Office products. 
  • AWS certification is a bonus 
  • Strong SQL skills with hands-on experience 
  • Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack.  

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 by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
  • Drive results and growth.
  • Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
  • Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.


Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Communication, Leadership, Software Development

We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.


Please visit the benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

5-7 Years

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Skills

JavaRustAWSSQLGitJiraConfluence

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