Advertising.com · 1 day ago
Senior System Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
15+ years expAdvertising.com is seeking a very senior, hands-on Senior System Engineer who is comfortable defining technology strategy and writing production-grade code. The role involves debugging issues, stabilizing existing systems, and designing new platforms to enhance business scalability and resilience, while also leading distributed development teams in the US and India.
AdvertisingMarketingMobile
Hiring Manager
Kristen Rawl
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end technology vision, architecture, and roadmap across all products and platforms
Design and evolve a scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant architecture capable of supporting high-volume ad, search, and data workloads
Champion best practices in software design, code quality, security, observability, and performance
Evaluate and introduce technologies, tools, and frameworks that improve throughput, reliability, and developer productivity
Act as a player-coach: write and review code for critical services and features
Jump into production incidents, troubleshoot issues, and guide teams toward root-cause fixes
Refactor and modernize legacy systems without disrupting revenue and SLAs
Lead by example in coding standards, testing discipline, and documentation
Own the design and optimization of our search, indexing, and analytics layers, with a particular focus on OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch-compatible stacks)
Architect and maintain clusters, indexing strategies, and query patterns that support large-scale search and reporting, real-time analytics, and low-latency workloads
Ensure search and data systems are secure, observable, and cost-efficient
Take ultimate responsibility for uptime, performance, and stability across all customer-facing and internal systems
Define and enforce standards for monitoring, alerting, and incident response, as well as error budgets and SLOs aligned to advertiser and partner SLAs
Drive post-incident reviews and continuous improvement to reduce recurrence and impact of issues
Identify and remove technical bottlenecks that delay launches, limit scale, or create recurring production issues
Serve as the senior technical voice with enterprise clients and partners, joining key meetings to explain architecture, integrations, and data flows
Address technical concerns, performance questions, and SLAs in clear, business-friendly language
Co-design solutions that meet complex client requirements while protecting platform stability and scalability
Work closely with Product, Business Development, Account Management, and Operations to translate client and market needs into a clear technical roadmap
Align technology strategy with company P&L, growth targets, and partnership commitments
Ensure systems and processes comply with relevant security, privacy, and regulatory requirements (e.g., SOC2-style controls, data protection, auditability)
Champion continuous improvement for SDLC, QA, CI/CD, and release management to reduce defects and deployment risk
Qualification
Required
15+ years in senior software engineering or technology roles in high volume traffic environments
Proven success leading high-scale, distributed systems in AdTech, MarTech, e-commerce, data platforms, or similarly demanding environments
Demonstrated track record as a hands-on technical leader who still codes and can deep-dive into architecture and production issues
Direct experience in AdTech / programmatic advertising / real-time bidding
Experience with tracking, attribution, pixels, and high-volume click/event pipelines
Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC2) and working with enterprise InfoSec and legal teams
Expert-level understanding of OpenSearch and broader search/data stack concepts, including index design, query optimization, and cluster management
Experience scaling search infrastructure for large data volumes and high QPS while tuning for performance, cost, and reliability
Versed in multiple programming languages (for example: Java, Node.js, Go, Python, PHP, etc.) and comfortable moving across stacks while PHP and Node.js is must
Strong background in distributed systems and microservices, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, relational and NoSQL databases, and messaging/queue systems
Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Familiarity with technologies such as PHP, Java, Node.js, Solr, modern JS frameworks, AWS, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines
Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex technical topics into clear business language for executives and clients
Ability to balance short-term firefighting with long-term architectural investment
High degree of ownership, integrity, and bias toward action
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, & equivalent practical experience
Benefits
Medical insurance and retirement/401(k) benefits.
Generous PTO and company holidays.
Remote-friendly culture with strong work/life balance initiatives.
Training, certifications, and opportunities to grow with a high-impact, fast-moving organization.
Company
Advertising.com
Advertising.com, now a part of ONE by AOL, enables marketers to reach consumers via programmatic buying and performance-driven campaigns.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$57MKey Investors
Reuters
2004-06-24Acquired
2000-08-07Series Unknown· $57M
2000-01-01Series Unknown
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