Staff II Software Engineer, Data Ingestion

<div class="content-intro"><p>StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.</p></div><h2><strong>About the Team:</strong></h2> <p>We’re looking for a <strong>Staff Software Engineer I/II</strong> to join our Data Ingestion Team, which builds and operates the critical infrastructure that serves as the “front door” of StackAdapt’s event flow. In this role, you’ll own technical direction for critical parts of our ingestion platform, lead large-scale initiatives, and shape how data flows across the company.</p> <p>The Data Ingestion team tackles complex distributed systems challenges at massive scale, with a focus on <strong>scalability, performance, and reliability.</strong> Our systems process over <strong>10 billion events per day</strong>, powering core functions across bidding, reporting, billing, analytics, and machine learning. You will work on challenging technical problems and partner with teams across the company to drive key initiatives.</p> <p>We design + build <strong>low-latency, highly reliable distributed systems</strong> for impressions, clicks, conversions, and third-party signals, ensuring data is accurate and available to downstream teams in real time. This is a high-impact area at the core of StackAdapt’s platform, the systems you own will directly shape data quality, system reliability, and the speed at which teams across the company can build and innovate. Our work sits at the cutting edge of large-scale distributed systems, leveraging modern technologies and architectures to solve complex real-time data challenges. The core stack includes <strong>Golang, Kafka, TiDB, Aerospike, Vitess, Kubernetes</strong>, and more.</p> <p>If you enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems at scale and driving technical impact across teams, this role would be a great fit for you.</p> <p>StackAdapt is a Remote First company. We are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada or the United States for this position.</p> <h2>What You’ll Be Doing:</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Own and lead large technical initiatives end-to-end</strong>, from design through production and monitoring</li> <li><strong>Provide technical leadership and mentorship</strong> to engineers across the team</li> <li>Design, build, and operate highly scalable, distributed ingestion services for real