Moloco

Senior Software Engineer - Ads Infrastructure - Moloco Commerce Media

Moloco$188K — $235K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering or SRE experience in cloud environments.
  • Experience operating large-scale distributed systems on GCP or AWS.
  • Proficiency in containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Skilled in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Helm.
  • Ability to program in modern languages like Go, Java, or Python to create automation tools.
  • Experience in managing incident response and improving reliability over time.
  • Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams for aligning infrastructure with business goals.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve scalable and cost-efficient infrastructure for Commerce Media services.
  • Build and automate CI/CD pipelines to enhance deployment safety and developer velocity.
  • Develop observability frameworks for deep visibility into systems.
  • Champion reliability practices such as SLOs and incident response.
  • Collaborate with engineering and security teams for compliance and performance solutions.
  • Contribute to incident management and process improvements for reliability.
  • Drive the adoption of SRE principles for critical customer-facing services.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
  • Flexible Time Off policy.
  • Thrive Days for additional paid time off.
  • Up to 12 scheduled paid holidays per year.
Full Job Description
The Impact You'll Be Contributing to Moloco
Help shape the reliability, scalability, and performance of Moloco's Commerce Media platform, ensuring our customers can run mission-critical retail media and commerce advertising at global scale. In this role, you'll drive foundational infrastructure and SRE practices that enable product teams to move quickly while maintaining a highly available and secure environment.
The Opportunity
  • Design and evolve highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure for Moloco Commerce Media services across cloud environments.
  • Build and automate resilient CI/CD, deployment, and configuration management pipelines to improve release safety and developer velocity.
  • Develop, refine, and operate observability frameworks (metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards) that provide deep visibility into Commerce Media systems.
  • Champion reliability-focused practices such as SLOs, capacity planning, incident response, and post-incident reviews for critical Commerce Media workloads.
  • Collaborate with product engineering, data, and security teams to architect infrastructure solutions that meet performance, compliance, and customer SLAs.
How Do I Know if the Role is Right For Me?
  • Bring 5 years of professional software engineering or SRE experience, including ownership of production systems at scale in a cloud environment.
  • Operate large-scale distributed systems on public cloud platforms (commonly GCP or AWS) using containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Leverage infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (for example Terraform, Helm, or similar) to define, manage, and version-control infrastructure.
  • Apply strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (such as Go, Java, or Python) to build tools, services, and automation for infrastructure and reliability.
  • Navigate ambiguous, evolving requirements by breaking down complex reliability or scalability problems into iterative, measurable improvements.
  • Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders-such as product engineers, data engineers, and security and operations teams-to align infrastructure choices with Commerce Media business goals.
  • Lead or significantly contribute to incident management, on-call operations, and continuous process improvements that raise the reliability bar for critical customer-facing services.


Compensation & Benefits

U.S.-based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits and perks. U.S.-based employees also receive up to 12 scheduled paid holidays per calendar year and one Thrive Day off per quarter. Additionally, all employees have Flexible Time Off (FTO).

The successful candidate may be eligible for a bonus and equity awards. Eligibility and amounts are determined by performance and the terms of the applicable plans.

The location for this role is listed above. For base pay range purposes, location-based compensation is grouped into the following regions. Your region is determined by your assigned work location.
  • Region A: Menlo Park Office, New York Office, SF Bay Area, New York Metro Area
  • Region B: Seattle Office, Seattle, Los Angeles/Orange County, San Diego, Austin, Boston, Washington DC Metro Area, Miami
  • Region C: All other U.S. locations

Salary Ranges:

Region A:

$188,000-$235,000 USD

Region B:

$169,200-$211,500 USD

Region C:

$159,800-$199,750 USD

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives.

About Moloco

Moloco is a technology company that provides machine learning and data analytics solutions for mobile advertising. The company's platform uses proprietary algorithms to analyze data from mobile devices and provide insights to advertisers, helping them to optimize their campaigns and improve their return on investment. Moloco was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Moloco
Size
100 employees
Industry
Founded
2013

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