As a Principal Engineer, you will own architecture and system design across our Audiences and Measurement product lines. These two systems currently evolve somewhat independently, and this role exists to bring them into architectural alignment - shared data models, consistent pipelines, and a unified approach to how we ingest, process, and activate viewership and audience data at scale. You'll set technical direction across teams rather than within one, and act as a thought partner to engineering leadership on the hardest design problems we have.WHAT YOU'LL DO- Set architectural direction and technical standards across measurement and audience systems, ensuring they scale reliably and remain extensible as new data sources and products come online
- Lead system design for high-impact, cross-team initiatives, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health
- Drive architectural convergence between audiences/segments and measurement so they function as one cohesive system
- Help define our technical approach to data clean room integrations, as measurement partnerships increasingly require privacy-safe data collaboration
- Act as a technical thought partner to engineering leadership, raising the bar on design rigor, code quality, and operational excellence
- Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, and drive alignment on architecture across teams that own adjacent parts of the measurement/audiences stack
- Identify and de-risk technical debt, scalability bottlenecks, and single points of failure before they become organizational blockers
WHO YOU ARE- Extensive experience architecting large-scale, data-intensive systems (streaming/batch pipelines, distributed data stores, or audience/measurement platforms)
- A track record of technical leadership at scale without direct reports - driving alignment across teams through influence and design rigor
- Strong system design fundamentals: data modeling, distributed systems tradeoffs, scalability and reliability patterns
- Strong cross-functional communication skills, with experience partnering across product, data science, and multiple engineering teams
- Comfortable operating with significant ambiguity and defining technical direction where none currently exists
- Ad tech or adjacent industry experience
- Experience with data clean rooms - clean room-based collaboration is an area we expect to grow significantly within measurement
- Background working across multiple time zones or with globally distributed engineering teams.
$230,000 - $260,000 a year
Samba expects to offer a base salary, but actual base salary offered will depend on various factors, including but not limited to, location, experience, and performance. Base salary is just one component of Samba's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include bonuses, short-term incentives, and long-term incentives. In addition, Samba provides health insurance, wellness offerings, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO), and other employee benefits.
