Staff Software Engineer

Samsung Electronics Perú; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading innovator in advertising technology as a Staff Engineer, where you will enhance the performance of cutting-edge ad tech solutions. This role involves designing distributed systems, optimizing ad bidding processes, and collaborating within a dynamic team. You will leverage your extensive experience in Erlang and systems programming to drive innovation and improve customer satisfaction. An exciting opportunity awaits you to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking company that values inclusivity and diversity.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Employee Purchase Program

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Student Loan Program

Wellness Incentives

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on Erlang.
• Experience in building scalable distributed systems.
• Strong foundation in computer science principles.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop distributed server infrastructure for critical operations.
• Research algorithms for consensus and scalability.
• Ensure project accountability and quality standards.

Skills

Erlang Programming

Distributed Systems Design

Systems Programming

Agile Methodologies

Mentoring

Multithreaded Environment

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

PhD

Tools

Git

JIRA

Job description

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Locations: 645 Clyde Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USA; One Pennsylvania Plaza, 26th Floor, New York, NY, USA

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Yesterday

Time left to apply: End Date: July 31, 2025 (30+ days left to apply)

Job requisition ID: R103330

Position Summary

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 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/OTP, Elixir, Go, C/C++ code with a mixture of Nginx, Aerospike, Kafka, Athena, Airflow, Druid technologies.

Role and 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 required, and is responsible for project outcome
• Designs, develops, and/or directs research and tests to validate effects and consequences of designs, processes, 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%)

Skills and Qualifications

• 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 programming 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 and New York Only

Salary Range Pay Transparency: Compensation for this role, for candidates based in Mountain View, CA or New York, NY, is expected to be between $200,000 and $235,000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role. Regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401(k), Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance (after 6 months), Paid Time Off, Student Loan Program (after 6 months), Wellness Incentives, and many more.

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