Principal Software Engineer, Ads Platform

Responsibilities

• Build the next generation ads formats and backend infrastructure and solutions to deliver more clicks and conversion and value for advertisers.
• Work end-to-end across innovating new ads product, format ideas, or infrastructure ideas experimentation, analysis and optimization
• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products or services
• Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
• Provide technical direction that influences the entire company
• Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code

• Bachelors in technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics or equivalent years of experience
• 10+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience;
• or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 9+ year of post-grad software development experience;
• or a PhD in a related technical field + 6+ years of post-grad software development experience
• 2+ years of experience with technical leadership or acting as the domain-expert to a technical organization
• Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing distributed systems