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Quantcast

Senior Software Engineer, Real-time Bidding Platforms

London, United Kingdom
At Quantcast, we use technology to help brands and publishers understand, reach and influence the constantly-changing behaviors of consumers. The Real-time Bidding Platform owns and operates the large scale distributed stack which allocates millions of dollars of advertising budget to billions of bid opportunities streaming into the system. If you’re interested in working on these critical, fast, large scale distributed systems then we’d like to meet.

Working side-by-side with engineers and modeling scientists you will build and operate intelligent bidding, optimization, prediction and control systems that power different parts of this stack. You’ll lead projects to optimize the throughput of the stack while reducing costs and growing advertising performance. You’ll drive design and implementation of new products for clients that’ll involve multiple teams and services.

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Responsibilities:

  • Scaling our bidding systems to process millions of requests per second
  • Mentoring junior engineers
  • Improving development, testing, monitoring and operational tools and processes
  • Managing cloud based infrastructure for bidding systems
  • Talking to customers and users, discovering their requirements and helping plan for building their next feature requirements
  • Profiling and optimizing bidding machines at the JVM, Kernel, network and CPU levels
  • Setting up and running experiments to improve stability and bidding performance across the stack

Requirements:

  • 4+ years experience developing and working on distributed software systems
  • Experience delivering improvements in scale, runtime, cost, features or reliability under little supervision
  • Excellent skills in distributed system and software design, concurrent algorithms, data structures and software engineering
  • Hands-on experience with Java or a similar language
  • Degree in a topic related to Computer Science, or equivalent experience

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Quantcast is an advertising technology company and the creator of an innovative intelligent audience platform that empowers brands, agencies and publishers to know and grow their audiences online. Our solutions are leveling the playing field for our customers when it comes to effectively reaching audiences online and helping them power a thriving free and open internet for everyone. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, Quantcast has employees in 18 offices across 10 countries.

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone can be their authentic self. We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Recognizing the importance of flexible work environments, Quantcast adopted a #hybrid work model in March 2022. This model gives employees the opportunity to work from home two days a week and work in the office for team collaboration for the remainder of the time. Implementation of our hybrid model may differ based on location or team, so please consult with your hiring manager for further information. All hybrid employees can also work remotely for two weeks each year or, if eligible, apply for our fully remote work program. To ensure the safety of everyone, all U.S. and Canada employees working from a Quantcast office or who meet clients are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Outside of these locations, we encourage all employees to get vaccinated.
Client-provided location(s): London, UK
Job ID: 951a153f-51bd-4680-ade3-55979cb60ffe
Employment Type: Other

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