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.
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 Bachelors degree; or 6 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 3 years.
Bachelors/Masters 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 Loan Program (after 6 months), Wellness Incentives, and many more.
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