Staff Engineer - Ad Platform Bidding & Optimization

National Black MBA Association; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsung Ads is seeking a front-end? Staff Engineer to join their team in California, working on core ad bidding and optimization within a high-performance distributed platform.

The role emphasizes ownership, architecture, and leadership across mission-critical components. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of related experience, strong Erlang skills, and a proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Typically requires at least 8 years of related experience and a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s; or a PhD with 3 years.
• 3+ years of experience in programming with Erlang.
• Experience in designing and building highly scalable, high throughput distributed systems.
• A solid foundation in systems programming, computer science and software engineering.
• Can-do attitude, ownership, and drive to completion with minimal support.
• Collaborative spirit with willingness to mentor others.
• Curious mind that enjoys building things and craftsmanship in software.
• Hands-on experience working in a multithreaded environment.

Responsibilities

• Create enterprise level distributed server infrastructure for mission-critical operations.
• Research and develop algorithms for distributed consensus, replication, consistency, availability and scalability.
• Make design trade-offs and decisions about features, schedule, quality and cost.
• Seeks optimal technology solutions from internal/external options and applies appropriate methodology to identify issues/concerns.
• Primary accountability for major elements of a project and ensuring project outcomes.
• Design, develop and/or direct research and tests to validate designs and enhancements across projects.
• Proactively determines measures and standards of success for project, product, and process quality.
• Participate and follow all team processes and technical standards.
• Some travel may be required (up to 10%).

Skills

Erlang programming

Distributed systems

Systems programming

Ownership mindset

Mentoring

Multithreading

Code quality

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Git

JIRA

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Samsung Ads is seeking a front-end? Staff Engineer to join their team in California, working on core ad bidding and optimization within a high-performance distributed platform.

The role emphasizes ownership, architecture, and leadership across mission-critical components. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of related experience, strong Erlang skills, and a proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.