Staff Engineer, Software Engineering (Erlang) – 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 a leading innovator in advertising technology, dedicated to providing cutting-edge solutions that optimize ad performance and deliver exceptional results for our clients. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced front-end staff engineer to join our dynamic team and help shape the future of the ad tech industry. We seek a talented Staff Engineer to play a pivotal role in enhancing our platform’s performance advertising capabilities.As a Staff Engineer, Software Engineering you will be part of a dynamic team that owns the core ad bidding and optimization for Samsung Ads advertising serving platform. The team handles mission critical modules that have a direct impact on the revenue and customer satisfaction. This team is responsible for managing, growing and optimizing access to our high-quality programmatic ads supply. Our tech stack includes Erlang, Go, and C code with a mixture of OTP, HAProxy, Nginx, ScyllaDB, Kafka and Athena technologies. We are also using Docker and Kubernetes on our AWS stack.

Responsibilities

• Create enterprise level distributed server infrastructure for mission-critical operations
• Research and develop algorithms for distributed consensus, replication, consistency, availability and scalability
• Makes difficult design trade-offs and decisions about features, schedule, quality and cost
• Seeks the optimal technology solutions to problems from internal and external options, and applies appropriate methodology to identify issues/concerns
• Primary accountability for major elements of a project, determines all tasks that are required, and is responsible for project outcome
• Designs, develops and/or directs research and tests to validate effect and consequences of designs, process or product enhancements across projects and/or products
• Proactively determines measures and standards of success for project, product, and process quality within project teams
• Participate and follow all team processes and technical standards
• Some travel may be required (up to 10%)

Necessary Skills/Attributes

• Typically requires at least 8 years of related experience and a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; 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, take ownership and responsibility of the task and drive things to completion with minimum support
• Collaborative spirit with a willingness to mentor others
• Curious mind that enjoys building things and appreciating the craftsmanship in software
• Hands-on experience working in a multithreaded environment

Nice to Have

• Familiar and experienced following Agile methodologies such as Scrum
• Functional programing experience
• Experience mentoring and guiding junior developers
• Previous experience as a lead
• Experience with Code Version tools like Git and collaboration tools like JIRA

CALIFORNIA ONLY

Compensation for this role is expected to be between $190,000 and $240,000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role.