Staff Software Engineer – Ads Retrieval
| Company | |
|---|---|
| Location | Palo Alto, CA, USA, Seattle, WA, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Salary | $200436 – $350763 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- BS (or higher) degree in Computer Science, or a related field.
- 8+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader leading multiple projects.
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience with Ads or Search Infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Rich experience in working cross functionally to drive alignment, oversee execution and secure deliverables.
- Hands on experience in solving complex scaling, latency, or low-level system performance problems in high-volume online serving systems.
- Knowledge of industry best practices and trends, and use it to form a long-term plan to the team.
- Passionate about building ads serving stack visibility and solving Ops / customer painpoints.
- Experience in mentoring, guiding and upleveling junior engineers.
- Experience solving end-user problems and envisioning solutions to improve their productivity.
- Proficiency in at least one of the system languages (C++, Java, Python).
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the technical strategy for scaling and modernizing our retrieval infrastructure.
- Rearchitect and refine the infrastructure to achieve greater scalability, freshness and performance handling billions of ads repository and millions of QPS.
- Lead the collaboration with ML, product, infra and other partner teams to evaluate the infra requests and make fund decisions.
- Be the tech lead of 10-20 engineers and directly influence their day to day work through mentorship and leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.