Staff Software Engineer, Ads

Job Description:

• Define and drive technical strategy for the advertising platform
• Establish architecture that evolves with the product and advertising business
• Provide technical leadership for video ads, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to identify technical investments and revenue opportunities
• Lead architecture and system design for complex cross-functional initiatives across advertising, video, backend services, clients, and data systems
• Evaluate architectural approaches and third-party advertising technologies
• Communicate tradeoffs involving scalability, reliability, user experience, implementation complexity, and business needs
• Improve reliability, observability, scalability, and maintainability of advertising systems and integrations
• Establish patterns and abstractions for safer advertising experimentation
• Collaborate with video, client, platform, data, and monetization teams
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, architectural guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
• Build technical documentation, architectural plans, and long-term roadmaps
• Monitor advertising technology trends and assess their relevance
• Participate in an occasional on-call rotation
• Report to an Engineering leader in the Ads space

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Demonstrated technical leadership on complex or large-scale systems
• Experience designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems
• Professional experience architecting and delivering advertising technology systems or integrations
• Strong backend engineering foundation and experience supporting video advertising
• Experience with ad serving, video ad delivery, SSAI/CSAI, VAST, programmatic advertising, or header bidding
• Experience leading architecture and technical strategy across projects involving multiple engineers or teams
• Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and system performance
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical decisions beyond immediate projects and teams
• Experience with live or streaming video systems is strongly preferred
• Experience with connected TV advertising or server-side ad insertion is preferred
• Experience with Google Ad Manager or similar ad-serving platforms is preferred
• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL is preferred
• Must be based in the United States and legally authorized to work in the United States
• Must not require employment visa sponsorship

Benefits:

• Work remotely throughout the US or from the modern office in Manhattan, NY
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Paid volunteer opportunities
• Technology stipend of $4,000 every 2 years
• WFH stipend of $500 annually
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend through Holisticly
• Monthly lifestyle stipend through Fringe
• Full health benefits: medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family/dependent coverage
• Traditional and Roth 401K plans through Vanguard with immediate company match
• Basic, supplemental, and dependent life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability leave
• Company-paid parental leave: up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Family building benefits through Progyny
• DICK'S Sporting Goods and family brands teammate discount
• Incentive compensation and equity for eligible roles