Senior Staff Software Engineer - Monetization
About The Position
Nextdoor is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to shape technical strategy and build scalable, reliable systems for its native advertising platform and subscription products. Monetization Engineering builds the platforms and experiences that power and grow revenue from advertising products connecting businesses with local customers and subscription offerings such as Opportunity Alerts. The role reports to the Head of Engineering, Monetization. This hands-on technical leader will partner with Product, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Engineering to align senior stakeholders and deliver complex initiatives with measurable business impact. Nextdoor operates in an AI-first environment and expects team members to use AI tools in their workflow, critically evaluate AI-assisted outputs, and take ownership of their work. The company describes its work model as hybrid, combining in-office and work-from-home work, with expectations discussed by the hiring team for candidates near its listed offices.
Requirements
- Exceptional system design skills and a proven record of building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems.
- Deep experience building advertising platforms, including a strong understanding of large-scale native ad-serving systems.
- Expert-level proficiency in at least one of Java, Kotlin, or Python.
- Extensive experience building large-scale, real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Kafka Streams.
- A strong record of mentoring senior engineers, developing technical leaders, and raising the engineering bar across teams.
- Experience using AI-powered development workflows to improve engineering productivity, quality, and delivery speed.
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing or productionizing machine-learning models in partnership with ML engineers and data scientists.
- Strong understanding of advertising optimization engines, including pacing, bidding, ranking, and budget allocation.
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and architecture for Nextdoor’s monetization platform, leading complex initiatives from concept through measurable outcomes.
- Build scalable, reliable, secure, and privacy-preserving systems supporting advertising and SMB subscription products.
- Partner with Product, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Engineering to shape roadmaps, navigate tradeoffs, and deliver value for neighbors and businesses.
- Raise engineering standards and address systemic gaps in quality, reliability, observability, release safety, and developer productivity.
- Remain hands-on with architecture, critical implementation, design reviews, debugging, launches, and production operations.
- Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, including trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team-building exercises.
- Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor’s company culture.
Benefits
- A meaningful equity grant with quarterly vesting; the first vest date will occur within three months of the start date.
- A variety of health plans, including an option with 100% of employee-only coverage.
- OneMedical membership for concierge care.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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