Senior Backend Engineer, Auction Remote OK San Francisco or Remote (US)

Bidrole; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 210,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Bidrole in San Francisco or remote in the US is hiring a senior systems engineer to own the server-side unified auction. You will design and operate the auction engine using Go and Rust, targeting ultra-low latency and high reliability across partners, 24/7 readiness, and rapid incident response.

You will drive down p99 latency, build the price-discovery and floor-optimization pipelines, and carry pager duty for the systems you own, while collaborating with a small, high-skill team in a

Qualifications

• 6+ years building low-latency distributed systems in production.
• Deep comfort with profiling, load testing, and capacity planning.
• Experience with ad tech, trading systems, or another sub-second domain.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the server-side unified auction (Go / Rust)
• Drive down p99 latency while adding demand partners
• Build the price-discovery and floor-optimization pipeline
• Carry the pager for the systems you build

Skills

Low-latency distributed systems

Go

Rust

Tools

Go

Rust

Job description

Own the real-time auction that prices billions of impressions a day. Latency, fairness, and correctness are the job.

San Francisco or Remote (US) $210,000 – $265,000 + equity

• Design and operate the server-side unified auction (Go / Rust)
• Drive down p99 latency while adding demand partners
• Build the price-discovery and floor-optimization pipeline
• Carry the pager for the systems you build

What we're looking for

• 6+ years building low-latency distributed systems in production
• Deep comfort with profiling, load testing, and capacity planning
• Experience with ad tech, trading systems, or another sub-second domain

Nice to have

• Rust in production
• Experience with in-app bidding / OpenRTB

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