Principal Software Engineer – Ad

Responsibilities

• Writing some and reviewing a lot of code and tests.
• Reviewing code and test implementations for best practices and algorithmic complexity.
• Available to support engineers on an On-Call shift, when needed.
• Reading requirements documentation from Product, providing a perspective on feasibility and translating into implementation tasks, and partnering with teams’ leads through execution as needed.
• Exploring, researching, implementing proofs-of-concept, and proposing solutions that will improve Ad Serving systems (reduce cost and overhead, improve maintainability, minimize the time features take to be in production, etc).
• Defining, reviewing, and documenting software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment.
• Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
• Foster open communication during architectural discussions, confidently defending decisions while welcoming feedback.
• Bridge the gap between diverse team requirements and technical capabilities to deliver cohesive, scalable solutions.
• Mentoring and inspiring others in all aspects of professional software development.

• BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant work experience
• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, garbage collection, profiling
• Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving / design skills in a highly distributed and highly available services ecosystem
• Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Comprehensive experience with:
  Spring Boot and related Spring projects
• Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB
• Redis and/or Mem Cache
• Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
• AWS or any other cloud platform
• Observability tooling (logs, metrics, etc)