Senior Software Engineer, Search Ads

Responsibilities:
- Design and build highly available ad delivery systems that handle high traffic and low latency demands
- Develop and optimize delivery strategies for various ad placements to improve monetization efficiency
- Enhance engineering strategies across core components like ad recall, ranking, bidding, and traffic optimization
- Architect systems to support long-term growth, aligned with product evolution and technical challenges
- Collaborate cross-functionally to drive complex projects and bring innovative ad products to life

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Proficient in at least one mainstream programming language (Go, Java, or C++) with solid coding practices
- 3+ years of experience in designing, developing, and debugging production-grade systems at scale
- Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and debugging; hands-on experience with multithreading, networking, distributed storage, OS-level concepts, and high availability systems
- Experience with distributed system and microservice architecture design
- Strong communication skills, proactive mindset, and a strong sense of ownership
- Experience with advertising systems or ad delivery engineering is a strong plus

Preferred Qualifications:
- Good understanding in one of the following domains: ad tech, bidding, ranking, recommendation, search, backend, large-scale systems, or data pipeline.
- Good product sense and experience designing and implementing product features.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $194000 - $355000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.