Staff Engineer, Platform Architect – Ad Solutions

Samsung Electronics•Mountain View, CA

1d•$200,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Platform Architect – Ad Solutions (Samsung Ads) Software Architects at Samsung Ads know their product and architecture like the back of their hands. They relentlessly drive for excellence, focus on important issues, and solve complicated problems. They constantly innovate and make visions a reality, partnering with engineering managers and product managers to execute. They manage constraints and own what is possible. They coordinate amongst multiple sites worldwide and always work towards increased communication and productivity. If this sounds like you, please read on! Over the last few years, Samsung has been investing in building a portfolio of engaging services across its devices to complement its market-leading hardware business, while leveraging its unparalleled global distribution footprint. These services, coupled with a vast partner network and proprietary data, generate a massive opportunity for ad-based monetization. Six years into this journey, Samsung Ads is a highly successful and fast-growing business. This business and its continued future success depend on the products, technologies, and tools owned by the Global Ads Product & Engineering team. Hundreds of people strong, with a substantial presence in five countries, the Global Ads P&E team is a dynamic and complex organization, operating across a broad spectrum of product and strategic domains. POSITION SUMMARY Our Architecture team is responsible for defining, refining, and guiding the execution of long,medium, and short-term visions for our systems, as well as for major investments across our product suite. In this role, you’ll report directly to our US Site Lead Architect in Mountain View, and you will be a close partner with Senior Engineering and Product Leadership. Our tech stack includes a mixture of Python, Erlang, Go, Java, Scala, Snowflake, Spark and Kubernetes running on AWS cloud. This role requires an incumbent who has previously architected big data systems in AdTech specifically as it is focused on Ad Serving and Ad Solution initiatives that touch our DSP , Audience and Ad Measurement platforms . You will enjoy this job if you have a deep innate passion for software engineering, distributed systems, systems architecture, and big data. You will need to demonstrate a wide breadth across multiple engineering disciplines, while also having depth in several key areas. You should have an eye and a knack for some product work (both authoritative and working with product teams in refining and defining their vision). Language agnostic polyglots will excel in this role! Finally, at Samsung Ads we believe success in an Architect role specifically requires strong communication skills along with technical expertise. After all, it’s one thing to be right, it’s quite another to guide a large organization to get it right. The latter requires team work and building understanding, which means you will be expected to work with others and lead through influence as well through code.

Requirements

10-14 years of professional experience in platform engineering and architecture with a significant portion of this experience in the Ad Tech vertical
Experience in Ad technologies such as RTB, DSP, and DMP
Experience in Data technologies like Snowflake, Flink, Druid or similar
Experience using message brokers (such as Kafka, Kinesis, pub/sub)
Experience using caching technologies (such as Aerospike, Memcache)
Big Data technologies and languages (Spark, Hadoop)
Extensive experience on large-scale multi-tier cloud applications and environments
Extensive experience with Amazon AWS, and other Amazon cloud offerings
Experience working in multi-threaded & concurrency-driven environments and understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of concurrency
Experienced in Python, Scala, Golang, C++ , Java or similar languages.
Experience in Automation and Load Testing Frameworks.
Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
Strong knowledge in Computer Science foundations
BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
Has broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways
Actively solves complicated issues by analyzing situations or data even if it seems like there is no solution
Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments

Responsibilities

Build high throughput high availability, cloud based, distributed platforms
Architecture & Design: Create new Tech Spec and Review the same from different Teams
Define scalable, high-performance architectures for data pipelines, reporting APIs, and platform services.
Mentorship: Provide technical mentorship and foster a culture of code quality, performance, and innovation.
Ability to effectively communicate ideas to peers and distributed teams
Contributing towards building a system with a test-driven development/Agile approach
Cross-Functional & Cross-Site Collaboration: Partner with Product, Data, and ML teams across multiple global engineering sites (e.g., MTV, SRIB, SRPOL, HQ) to translate business goals into technical roadmaps, ensure architectural alignment, and deliver high-quality solutions.
Data Engineering: Work with data engineering teams to develop and optimize large-scale data ingestion, transformation, and analytics pipelines.
Product Reliability: Ensure platform reliability and operational excellence through automation, monitoring, and proactive system health checks.
Rapid Prototyping: Develop quick prototypes and proofs of concept to validate new ideas and accelerate innovation.
External Collaboration: Engage with technology partners and vendors to integrate advanced data and reporting tools into the Samsung Ads ecosystem.
Prototyping and developing consumer-facing services that will be displayed on millions of devices