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Lead software engineering strategy and standards, direct large teams building and supporting web and application platforms, manage software release rollouts and large budgets, integrate new technologies, and collaborate cross-functionally to meet project, timeline, and financial objectives.

The C++ Engineer will design, build, and support FreeWheel's video advertising platform, handle the software development lifecycle, and collaborate with stakeholders.

Design, build, and operate low-latency, cloud-native Golang microservices for identity resolution and audience targeting. Own end-to-end features, optimize performance, ensure observability and reliability, collaborate cross-functionally, support production incidents, and drive technical improvements and mentoring.

Provide executive leadership for Audience & Measurement engineering, owning Snowflake-based ingestion platforms and data products. Define SLAs/SLOs, optimize Snowflake cost and performance, modernize platforms with cloud-native, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices, and ensure high-volume data ingestion, normalization, and hygiene. Build and lead engineering teams, manage budgets, and partner across product, revenue science, privacy, and partnerships to deliver privacy-compliant audience segmentation and activation capabilities.

Lead and oversee engineering for identity platforms, including identity graph design, high-volume signal ingestion, device/link resolution, and privacy-compliant data processing. Drive scalability, performance, availability, cross-team integration, standards, and best practices in system design, data engineering, and ML. Manage releases, budgets, and stakeholder partnerships to enable targeting, enrichment, and ad-serving capabilities.

Design, develop, and optimize high-quality video advertising systems, leveraging AWS and Kubernetes. Mentor junior engineers and ensure robust infrastructure performance.

Lead reliability, performance, and operational excellence for large-scale ad-tech platforms. Design and operate monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, automation, and secure production practices. Mentor engineers, influence architecture for production readiness, drive change management, and participate in on-call rotations for complex distributed systems.

The Lead Software Engineer will drive the software development lifecycle for an online video ad server, collaborating with PMs and mentoring engineers.