Staff Software Engineer

Samsung • Mountain View, CA

261d • $200,000 - $235,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Familiar and experienced following Agile methodologies such as Scrum
• Functional programming experience
• Experience mentoring and guiding junior developers
• Previous experience as a lead
• Experience with Code Version tools like Git and collaboration tools like JIRA

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%)

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401(k)
• Employee Purchase Program
• Tuition Assistance (after 6 months)
• Paid Time Off
• Student Loan Program (after 6 months)
• Wellness Incentives

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree