Senior Backend Software Engineer, Ad Engineering
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Senior backend engineer building scalable SSAI, ad delivery, and measurement infrastructure. Shaping programmatic advertising for Philo’s cloud-based streaming television service.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, deploy, and monitor Philo’s next-generation SSAI service
- Collaborate with ad ecosystem partners to engineer ad tech products
- Collaborate with video delivery, ad operations, and data science teams to measure and optimize ad delivery and user viewing experience
- Build scalable and resilient data pipelines for ad creatives and ad measurement events
- Drive improvements to reliability, performance, accuracy, and security of ad services
- Implement identity solutions for ad targeting and measurement
- Interface with IAB, MRC, and other standards bodies on certifications and compliance
- Build tools to proactively monitor and troubleshoot ad delivery issues
- Serve as a technical leader and internal subject matter expert on ad technology
- Gather requirements, determine optimal services and integrations, and operate services across the programmatic ad ecosystem
Requirements:
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Experience building or integrating SSAI using MPEG-DASH or HLS media streaming technologies
- Familiarity with VAST, VMAP, OpenRTB and header bidding
- Experience building or integrating ad servers, demand-side platforms or supply-side platforms with personalized ad targeting capabilities
- Familiarity with programmatic advertising using Publica, Freewheel, Google Ad Exchange or Amazon APS
- Proven track record of building highly efficient and highly available software using Golang, Java, C++ or similar programming languages
- Experience operating in cloud computing environments using modern software deployment technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with large amounts of data, relational and non-relational databases, modern data warehousing and querying
- Experience collaborating and communicating with internal and external stakeholders in business and technical roles
- Knowledge of ad ecosystem trends and changes
- Must be currently authorized to work lawfully in the U.S.
- We are language agnostic; backend code is primarily written in Golang, Ruby, NodeJS, C++ and Python
Benefits:
- Full health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
- 401(k) plan with employer contributions
- Flexible working hours
- Up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Unlimited paid time off for vacation and sick leave
- $2,000 annual vacation bonus
- $5,250 annually for professional development and educational assistance
- $1,250 annual home office + TV stipend during first year of employment ($250 annually thereafter)
- $500/month ($6,000/year) bonus for employees who commit to working at least 3 days per week in our offices
- Generous commuter benefits ($315/month towards transit, rideshare, bike rental, or parking at our HQ office in San Francisco)
- Free Gympass subscription
- Dog-friendly office
- Company stock options
- Health benefits
- Equal opportunity and accessibility accommodations
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