Staff Software Engineer

Position Summary

As a Staff Engineer, Software Engineering you will be part of a dynamic team that owns the core ad bidding and optimization for Samsung Ads advertising serving platform. The team handles mission critical modules that have a direct impact on the revenue and customer satisfaction.

This team is responsible for managing, growing and optimizing access to our high- quality programmatic ads supply. Our tech stack includes Erlang/OTP, Elixir, Go, C/C++ code with a mixture of Nginx, Aerospike, Kafka, Athena, Airflow, Druid technologies.

1. Develop back-end server that includes business logic linked to various data storage solutions including database.
2. Design back-end server system by using technology appropriate for server environment.

Role and Responsibilities

Responsibilities 

• Create enterprise level distributed server infrastructure for mission-critical operations 

•  Research and develop algorithms for distributed consensus, replication, consistency, availability and scalability 

•Makes difficult design trade-offs and decisions about features, schedule, quality and cost 

•  Seeks the optimal technology solutions to problems from internal and external options, and applies appropriate methodology to identify issues/concerns 

• Primary accountability for major elements of a project, determines all tasks that are required, and is responsible for project outcome 

• Designs, develops and/or directs research and tests to validate effect and consequences of designs, process or product enhancements across projects and/or products 

• Proactively determines measures and standards of success for project, product, and process quality within project teams 

• Participate and follow all team processes and technical standards 

• Some travel may be required (up to 10%) 

Necessary Skills/Attributes 

• Typically requires at least 8 years of related experience and a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years. 

• Bachelors/Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related STEM field

• 3 years of experience in programming with Erlang 

• Experience in designing and building highly scalable, high throughput distributed systems 

•A solid foundation in systems programming, computer science and software engineering 

•  Can do attitude, take ownership and responsibility of the task and drive things to completion with minimum support 

• Collaborative spirit with a willingness to mentor others 

• Curious mind that enjoys building things and appreciating the craftsmanship in software 

• Hands-on experience working in a multithreaded environment 

Skills and Qualifications

Nice to Have 

• Familiar and experienced following Agile methodologies such as Scrum 

• Functional programing experience 

• Experience mentoring and guiding junior developers 

• Previous experience as a lead 

•Experience with Code Version tools like Git and collaboration tools like JIRA 
 

CALIFORNIA ONLY 

Compensation for this role is expected to be between $190,000 and $235,000. Actual pay will 

be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role

Regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401(k), Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance (after 6 months), Paid Time Off, Student Lo