Senior Software Engineer (Data Analytics / Big Data Engineer )

Company Description

PubMatic (Nasdaq: PUBM) is an independent technology company maximizing customer value by delivering digital advertising’s supply chain of the future.

PubMatic’s sell-side platform empowers the world’s leading digital content creators across the open internet to control access to their inventory and increase monetization by enabling marketers to drive return on investment and reach addressable audiences across ad formats and devices.

Since 2006, our infrastructure-driven approach has allowed for the efficient processing and utilization of data in real time. By delivering scalable and flexible programmatic innovation, we improve outcomes for our customers while championing a vibrant and transparent digital advertising supply chain.

Job Description

Our Advertising technology team is building a holistic advertising platform which will be key to e-commerce company’s ad revenue growth strategy. We will build cutting edge machine learning and optimization algorithms to ingest, model and analyze online and in-store data from e-commerce companies. Importantly, we will build smart systems that deliver relevant retail ads and experiences that connect customers with the brands and products they love and enable advertisers to achieve their product sales goals via campaign activation.

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for developing end-to-end product features for reporting system for advertising platform for e-commerce clients, that would have big data processing and will include the design and development of Analytics components.   

We are looking for self-motivated senior software engineers who enjoy working in dynamic, agile development environments as individual contributors to the team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated problem solver with a strong background in big data tech stack, software design, development, and e-commerce AdTech domain. 

Job Location: US (RWC/NYC) 

Responsibilities:  

• Build, design and implement our highly scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available big data platform to process terabytes of data and provide customers with in-depth analytics. 

• Developing Big Data pipelines using modern technology stack such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, HBase, Hive, Presto etc. 

• Developing analytics application ground up using modern technology stack such as Java, Spring, Tomcat, Jenkins, REST APIs, JDBC, Amazon Web Services, Hibernate. 

• Building data pipeline to automate high-volume data collection and processing to provide real-time data analytics. 

• Customize PubMatic’s reporting and analytics platform based on customer’s requirements from customers and deliver scalable, production-ready solutions. 

• Lead multiple projects to develop features for data processing and reporting platform, collaborate with product managers, cross-functional teams, other stakeholders and ensure successful delivery of projects. 

• Use various mechanisms established to fetch data from different external data sources and reconcile them with PubMatic’s processed data. 

• Collaborate with functional teams to build products to deliver end-to-end products and features and fix bugs for better performance. 

• Develop robust & fault-tolerant systems and monitor implications of changes on data processing pipeline and performance. 

• Leveraging a broad range of PubMatic’s data architecture strategies and proposing both data flows and storage solutions. 

• Managing hadoop map reduce and spark jobs & solving any ongoing issues with operating the cluster. 

• Working closely with cross functional teams on improving availability and scalability of large data platform and functionality of PubMatic software. 

• Expertise in developing Implementation of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, performing code reviews, committing to Github, preparing documents in Confluence, continuous delivery using Jenkins, automated testing, and operations. 

• Participate in Agile/Scrum processes such as sprint planning, sprint retrospective, backlog grooming, user story management, work item prioritization, etc. 

• Frequently discuss with product managers about the software features to include in PubMatic Data Analytics platform. Understand the technical aspects customer requirement from product managers. 

• Keep in regular touch with quality engineering team which ensure the quality of the platforms/products and performance SLAs of java based micro services and spark-based data pipeline. 

• Support customer issues over email or JIRA (bug tracking system), provide updates, patches to customers