Staff Software Engineer

Staff Engineer, Software Engineering

Samsung Ads is a leading innovator in advertising technology, dedicated to providing cutting-edge solutions that optimize ad performance and deliver exceptional results for our clients. We seek a highly skilled and experienced front-end staff engineer to join our dynamic team and help shape the future of the ad tech industry.

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

• 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 Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years.

• Bachelors/Master's 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 programming 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.