Staff Software Engineer

Samsung•Mountain View, CA

5d•$190,000 - $235,000

About The Position

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. 1. Develop back-end server that includes business logic linked to various data storage solutions including database. 2. Design back-end server system by using technology appropriate for server environment.

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.
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

Nice To Haves

Familiar and experienced following Agile methodologies such as Scrum
Functional programing 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%)