Engineer

Magnite; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and ESPP

Pension and retirement plan

Healthcare benefits

Generous time off

Family-focused leave

Cell phone subsidy

Recognition program

Community service events

Wellness program

Job summary

Magnite is seeking engineers to build traffic-shaping technology handling trillions of daily ad requests. You will develop high-performance, low-latency software in Rust/Scala, design large-scale distributed systems, and optimize data analysis and traffic consumption.

Expect to work with Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, and CNCF tools while delivering at scale. We value ownership, rapid deployment, and a hunger to learn.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

Job description

• Our team specializes in building traffic-shaping technology to prioritize the highest-value ad requests at scale. With around 2 trillion daily transactions, a 1% improvement in ad request prioritization impacts 20 billion transactions daily
• Develop large-scale distributed systems and solve deep technical and mathematical challenges
• Solve for large-scale data analysis and problems involving complex mathematical algorithms to optimize traffic consumption
• Develop high-performance software and write optimized, low-latency software that routes high volumes of ad request traffic and targeting p99 latencies <= 20ms while maximizing throughput
• Cost optimization: Improving profit margins by lowering the infrastructure cost basis to optimize traffic
• Our current tech stack:
• Rust and Scala for core application development
• Spark Structured Streaming, Kafka, Kubernetes, Airflow, Argo Workflows
• Combination of Terraform, Helm, and Argo for Cloud-based Kubernetes deployments

Benefits

• Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Pension and Retirement Savings Plan in Several Countries
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits for You and Your Family
• Generous Time Off, Holiday Breaks and Summer Fridays
• Family-Focused Leave Benefits
• Cell Phone Subsidy
• Performance Management, and Investment in Diversity Initiatives
• Bonusly Peer-to-Peer Recognition Program, Turning Recognition into Tangible Perks and Magnite Swag
• Community Service Events
• Wellness Coach Meditate and Recharge with an Unlimited User Account for You and a Plus One

Engaging in critical and creative thinking. We expect engineers to present and debate tradeoffs to solve the problems we face2+ years of software development experience, and a BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experienceFamiliarity with Kubernetes and other CNCF projects like Prometheus, Argo, helm, etc. are a plusA hunger to learn while working with a sense of urgency. We strive to improve and operate at a high level while maintaining development velocity. It is not uncommon for our team to make multiple high-impact deployments throughout the dayOpen to working with the functional programming (FP) paradigm. We attempt to pragmatically apply FP principles where applicable and expect you will tooExperience in designing and implementing high-quality applications, preferably with Rust, Scala and SparkA desire for ownership. We own the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to production support. Joining the On-Call rotation for our applications is a requirement