Solutions Engineer, Advertisers and Agencies

PubMatic • New York, NY

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Solutions Engineer within the Advertisers and Agencies team, you will be a technical anchor in driving excellence and strategic value for our media buyer clients. You will lead complex solution design, audience activation strategies, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful onboarding, optimization, and long-term success of advertiser and agency partnerships.
This role requires deep expertise in programmatic advertising, demand-side technologies (DSP), troubleshooting and audience data solutions. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor to clients and internal stakeholders, influencing product development and delivering scalable solutions that meet evolving market needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of DSP and AdTech experience, ideally in a client-facing technical role (solutions, pre-sales, technical consulting) interfacing with agencies and advertisers.
• Deep understanding of programmatic advertising (DSPs, RTB, auction logic, supply path, bid shading).
• Experience with audience activation, data onboarding, identity resolution, DMPs, CDPs, and data ecosystems.
• Strong foundational knowledge: HTTP, RESTful APIs, JavaScript, JSON, XML, web protocols, and ad-tech standards (VAST, VPAID, OpenRTB, cookie sync, etc.), privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA etc.)
• Comfortable working in Unix/Linux environments; scripting experience (Python, Shell/Bash, Node.js, etc.) is a plus.
• SQL fluency and ability to analyze datasets, detect anomalies, and define metrics.
• Ability to read and interpret logs, metrics dashboards, and debugging output.
• Excellent communicator: can translate complex technical stories into business outcomes for non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinking, pattern recognition, and problem-solving aptitude.
• Self-starter with ability to manage multiple projects concurrently in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and driving clarity.
• Mentorship mindset: willing to train, coach, and elevate more junior contributors.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to CTV/OTT, mobile SDKs, and omnichannel (web + mobile + connected environments) is a big plus.
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• Experience at a mid-to-large scale AdTech company or an agency/advertiser doing advanced programmatic work.
• Understanding of identity privacy frameworks (e.g. GDPR, CCPA, UID2, IAB efforts).
• Experience in operating globally or with cross-regional clients.
• Experience with MCPs, Agent-to-agent communication, Generative AI tools is a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead during prospect and client engagements: discovery, scoping, proof-of-concept, and RFP/RFI responses.
• Design end-to-end solutions using PubMatic’s buyer stack (bidder, API, audience, identity, reporting, log-level data) aligned with client goals (reach, targeting, optimization, attribution).
• Conduct POCs, validate hypotheses, align expectations in collaboration with Product & Engineering.
• Lead the technical integration (post-sales): Data Onboarding, API Integration, Log-level data setup, pixel configuration.
• Collaborate with the Addressability team for new DMP integration, clean-room setup, and graph matching.
• Own the troubleshooting and resolve complex issues with campaign delivery, data availability, targeting etc.
• Monitor performance and ensure health of the campaign through the use of reporting, network dashboard, Looker etc.
• Being a champion for clients’ needs internally—participate in product planning, testing, and release reviews.
• Translate client challenges into product requirements, user stories, and technical specs.
• Collaborate with engineering on tooling, automation, internal platforms, and efficiency improvements.
• Train and mentor junior solution engineers and support scaling of best practices.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to advertiser and agency leads, gaining credibility via subject-matter expertise.
• Help the sales team shape opportunities, propose upsell paths, and defend solution direction.
• Create internal and external technical content—playbooks, whitepapers, internal trainings.

Benefits

• paid leave programs
• paid holidays
• healthcare
• dental and vision insurance
• disability and life insurance
• commuter benefits
• physical and financial wellness programs
• unlimited DTO in the US (that we actually require you to use!)
• reimbursement for mobile
• fully stocked pantries
• in-office catered lunches 5 days per week

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior