Senior Software Engineer & Stats & Analytics - Data Ingestion

StackAdapt; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Canada is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Data Ingestion Team. This role focuses on building and operating scalable, distributed ingestion services for real-time data processing. Candidates should have 5+ years' experience, strong skills in Golang, and experience with streaming systems like Kafka. The position offers competitive salary, benefits from day one, and a welcoming company culture dedicated to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

Retirement/401K/Pension Savings

Competitive paid time off packages

Access to mental health care program

Health benefits from day one

Work from home reimbursements

Global WeWork membership

Robust training program

Support for personal development initiatives

Access to programmatic courses

Parental leave program

Friendly and supportive culture

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a backend software engineer.
• Strong experience building distributed systems and high-throughput backend services.
• Hands-on experience with streaming systems, particularly Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly scalable, distributed ingestion services.
• Build and maintain event ingestion pipelines using Kafka.
• Lead projects end-to-end, from design through production and monitoring.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Building distributed systems

Golang experience

Streaming systems

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

TiDB

Aerospike

Vitess

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Stats & Analytics - Data Ingestion

Canada; United States

StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.

About the Team:

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Ingestion Team, which builds and operates the critical infrastructure that serves as the front door of StackAdapt’s event flow.

The team works on large-scale distributed systems focused on scalability, performance, reliability, and data correctness, processing 10+ billion events per day. Our systems power core functions across bidding, reporting, billing, analytics, and machine learning.

We design and run low-latency, highly reliable ingestion systems for impressions, clicks, conversions, and third-party signals, ensuring data is accurate and available for downstream teams in real time. Our core stack includes Golang, Kafka, TiDB, Aerospike, Vitess, Kubernetes, and more.

If you enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems at scale, this team offers meaningful technical challenges and impact.

What You'll Be Doing:

Design, build, and operate highly scalable, distributed ingestion services for real-time and near–real-time scenarios

Build and maintain event ingestion pipelines using streaming technologies like Kafka

Work with high-volume storage systems and databases to persist and serve data efficiently

Partner with Data, ML, Product, and Platform teams to support evolving requirements

Lead projects end-to-end, from design through production and monitoring

Improve code quality, testing practices, system reliability, and observability

Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship

What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• 5+ years of experience as a backend software engineer
• Strong experience building distributed systems and high-throughput backend services
• Experience with Golang (or similar languages with a willingness to learn and work in Go)
• Hands‑on experience with streaming systems (Kafka or similar)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs (consistency, availability, partition tolerance, scalability)
• Strong problem‑solving and communication skills, with comfort working in ambiguous, complex domains
• Collaborative mindset and strong communication skills

Bonus:

• Experience working on data ingestion, ETL, or streaming data platforms
• Familiarity with AdTech, event‑driven architectures, or analytics systems

StackAdapter's Enjoy:

• Highly competitive salary
• Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
• Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
• Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
• Health benefits from day one of employment
• Work from home reimbursements
• Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
• Robust training and onboarding program
• Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
• Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
• An awesome parental leave program
• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
• Our social and team events!

StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.

We use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.

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