Senior Ad Tech Solutions Engineer – Streaming Platforms

FOX Tech; New York (NY); On-site; USD 179,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Medical/dental/vision

Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Other benefits

Union represented employees policy

Job summary

Fox Tech, a leader in streaming ad technology, seeks a Staff Solutions Engineer to own complex platform integrations and advanced data analysis on large ad datasets. You will diagnose delivery issues, define scalable patterns, and collaborate across engineering, product, and revenue teams.

You will lead end-to-end integrations for live, VOD, and FAST channels, and mentor others while shaping best practices for ad delivery and measurement across Fox’s ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of experience in ad technology, streaming media, solutions engineering, technical operations, platform integrations, or a related technical function.
• Deep experience with video advertising and ad server platforms, particularly FreeWheel, including network management, trafficking, reporting, troubleshooting, inventory architecture, and monetization workflows.
• Strong SQL fluency, including experience writing complex queries against large-scale event-level datasets and turning raw delivery data into actionable technical, product, and business insight.
• Working knowledge of SSAI/DAI architecture, including player behavior, stitcher logic, mediation layers, ad decisioning, tracking events, and live/VOD/FAST delivery workflows.
• Strong understanding of streaming ad signal design, including VAST, VMAP, SCTE-35, identity/authentication signals, targeting key-values, macros, event beacons, and impression measurement.
• Experience working with data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar environments for ad delivery analytics and operational troubleshooting.
• Comfort using technical tools such as APIs, cURL, Postman, JSON/XML, log analysis tools, dashboarding systems, and scripting or automation workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end multi-party platform integrations, including technical discovery, requirements definition, partner communication, QA coordination, launch readiness, and post-launch support.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build trust, explain complex technical concepts clearly, and adapt communication for engineering, product, business, executive, and external partner audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex DAI/SSAI platform integrations from concept through launch, including ad server architecture, technical discovery, Eng-to-Eng coordination, QA planning, partner validation, and production readiness across live, VOD, and FAST distribution channels.
• Build and own analytical frameworks using SQL, Databricks, and large-scale ad log datasets to diagnose delivery discrepancies, measure inventory performance, identify root causes, and surface monetization opportunities across FreeWheel, AdRise proprietary systems, and partner data sources.
• Serve as a recognized technical authority across the full streaming ad delivery stack, including player behavior, stitcher workflows, mediation layers, FreeWheel configuration, programmatic demand sources, measurement vendors, identity signals, and impression/click/event tracking.
• Own high-severity technical investigations involving ad delivery, targeting, measurement, reporting, partner integrations, and revenue-impacting discrepancies. Drive issues from detection through root cause analysis, workarounds, resolution, and long-term prevention.
• Define implementation standards, ad call design patterns, QA expectations, troubleshooting playbooks, monitoring requirements, and escalation models that other engineers and cross-functional partners can execute against.
• Maintain and evolve the FreeWheel ecosystem, including network configuration, content break policies, site section architecture, inventory packaging, targeting design, profile management, and reporting alignment.
• Partner directly with yield, sales, product, engineering, and station teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, from new ad unit concepts through commercial launch.
• Provide senior technical support to Fox Television Stations for O&O and non-O&O inventory design, flow architecture, partner enablement, and delivery troubleshooting.
• Identify systemic product gaps and operational inefficiencies, design near-term solutions, and advocate for long-term platform improvements with product and engineering partners.
• Mentor other solutions engineers by reviewing technical designs, improving analytical approaches, creating documentation, and raising the team's overall technical bar.

Skills

Ad technology

SQL

Streaming media

Platform integrations

Data analysis

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

APIs

Job description

Fox Tech, a leader in streaming ad technology, seeks a Staff Solutions Engineer to own complex platform integrations and advanced data analysis on large ad datasets. You will diagnose delivery issues, define scalable patterns, and collaborate across engineering, product, and revenue teams.

You will lead end-to-end integrations for live, VOD, and FAST channels, and mentor others while shaping best practices for ad delivery and measurement across Fox’s ecosystem.