Staff Software Engineer

Position Summary

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 are seeking a highly skilled and experienced front-end staff engineer to join our dynamic team
and help shape the future of the ad tech industry. We seek a talented Staff Engineer to play a pivotal role in enhancing our platform's performance advertising capabilities.

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

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

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