Staff Backend Engineer - Real-Time Ads Infra (Remote)

fetch; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fetch seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to design and evolve high-throughput systems powering real-time advertising decisions. You’ll own architecture across critical Ads services, ensure reliability, and drive multi-quarter initiatives with cross-team impact.

You will mentor engineers, shape standards, and partner with Ads, Platform, Data, and ML to maintain low latency, scalability, and operational excellence in a distributed backend environment.

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems at significant production scale.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems: partitioning, replication, consistency, caching, concurrency.
• Strong track record diagnosing performance and scaling problems across applications, databases, caches, queues, networks, and infrastructure.
• Strong expertise in API design, service boundaries, event-driven architectures, and data-intensive systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of architecture for complex distributed systems, including scalability planning and failure modes.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture across critical Ads services. Design high-throughput, low-latency services.
• Design for reliability, resilience, and operational excellence with metrics, tracing, and SLOs.
• Evolve event-driven and data-intensive architectures across stores, streaming, and real-time processing.
• Set standards across Ads and adjacent teams to accelerate development.
• Drive refactoring, migration, and system-health work to improve velocity.
• Define multi-quarter initiatives shaping Ads-org direction and technical strategy.
• Resolve complex reliability and scalability problems spanning multiple teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and lead technical design reviews.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend architecture

Observability

API design

Problem solving

Mentoring

Kubernetes

Event-driven

Low-latency

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Observability tooling

Job description

Fetch seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to design and evolve high-throughput systems powering real-time advertising decisions. You’ll own architecture across critical Ads services, ensure reliability, and drive multi-quarter initiatives with cross-team impact.

You will mentor engineers, shape standards, and partner with Ads, Platform, Data, and ML to maintain low latency, scalability, and operational excellence in a distributed backend environment.