Staff Engineer II, Distributed Ads Platform

National Black MBA Association; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsung Ads in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Staff Engineer II, Software Engineering, to own core ad bidding and optimization services. You will design and operate distributed systems, leveraging Erlang, Go, Docker, Kubernetes on AWS, and work across a broad product landscape.

The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and delivering scalable backend services with a strong CS foundation. Occasional travel up to 10% is required.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years of related experience and a Bachelor's degree, or 10 years and a Master's degree, or a PhD with 7 years experience.
• 5+ years of experience in programming with Erlang.
• Experience in designing and building highly scalable, high throughput distributed systems.
• Experience building backend services in Go.
• A solid foundation in systems programming, computer science and software engineering.

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.
• Seek optimal technology solutions and apply appropriate methodology to identify issues/concerns.
• Primary accountability for major elements of a project and responsible for project outcome.
• Designs, develops and/or directs tests to validate designs across projects and products.
• Proactively determine 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

Distributed systems

Backend Go

Systems programming

Multithreading

Ownership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Master's degree in CS or related

PhD in CS related field

Tools

Git

JIRA

Docker

Kubernetes

ScyllaDB

Kafka

Nginx

HAProxy

AWS

Job description

Samsung Ads in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Staff Engineer II, Software Engineering, to own core ad bidding and optimization services. You will design and operate distributed systems, leveraging Erlang, Go, Docker, Kubernetes on AWS, and work across a broad product landscape.

The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and delivering scalable backend services with a strong CS foundation. Occasional travel up to 10% is required.