Staff Software Engineer - Ad Serving - Moloco Commerce Media

Moloco; Edison (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 303,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Flexible Time Off

Bonus and equity awards

Job summary

Moloco seeks an experienced engineer to join our expanding team in Edison, California. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable ad serving systems that handle billions of ad auctions daily. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of software engineering experience and a strong background in cloud technologies.

Responsibilities include technical leadership, engaging directly with clients, and shaping the technical roadmap. Our U.S.-based employees enjoy competitive compensation, medical benefits, and flexible time off.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience with modern languages.
• 2+ years of leadership experience in technical project delivery.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale systems from design to deployment.
• Experience in building platforms for digital ads or e-commerce.
• Proficiency with cloud-based technologies like AWS, GCE, and GCP.
• Strong ability to collaborate with non-technical customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate a reliable enterprise platform at scale.
• Build and maintain APIs and features for ad serving.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Engage with customers to translate needs into engineering solutions.
• Contribute to the strategic vision of the platform.

Skills

Software development experience

Leadership experience

Large-scale distributed systems

Digital advertising platforms

Cloud technologies like AWS

Interpersonal and communication skills

Problem-solving

Job description

The Impact You’ll Be Contributing to Moloco

Moloco Commerce Media (MCM) is growing its engineering team to support our expanding number of customers with engineering rigor and efficiency. We are looking for an experienced engineer, who can both lead complicated feature developments from end to end and can provide deep technological consultations both to customers and our business team members alike. Our systems will need to be supported at a global scale handling billions of ad auctions per day, while our cutting‑edge machine learning (ML) delivers high performance for advertisers and quality experiences for retail shoppers. The Ad Serving team in MCM engineering is responsible for the foundational systems underlying this platform, closely collaborating with campaign management, data infrastructure, and customer integrations.

The Opportunity

• Design, develop and operate an end‑to‑end enterprise platform that remains fast, reliable and secure at scale.
• Build and maintain APIs and features for ad serving, while shaping the technical roadmap for the future of the product.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance for both internal/external engineering teams and cross functional business teams.
• Directly engage with customers to identify gaps, translate real world needs into engineering solutions, and deliver outcomes including legacy platform migrations, data connectors, bespoke features, workflows and analytics.
• Contribute to the strategic vision of the platform, strongly influencing technical decisions and long‐term architecture.
• Explore and prototype next generation features including those enabled by generative AI.

How Do I Know if the Role is Right For Me?

• 7+ years software development experience using one or more modern languages such as Java, C++, Go, and Python.
• 2+ years of leadership experience in delivering technical projects with a small (3+) team of engineers.
• Hands‑on experience with large‑scale distributed systems, from requirements gathering and design to implementation and production deployment.
• Experience in building platforms for digital advertising or e‑commerce applications.
• Experience with cloud‑based technologies (e.g., AWS, GCE, GCP, Beam, Spark, BigTable, BigQuery etc.).
• Experience working directly with customers having varying levels of technical knowledge, and translating their ambiguous requirements into actionable roadmaps and technical solutions.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and the ability to work independently in a fast‑paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain cross‑functional and customer relationships.
• Willingness to travel as needed (up to 15% travel).
• Communication proficiency, capable of elaborating engineering concepts and product features in detail even to non‑technical audiences.

Compensation & Benefits

U.S.‑based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and well‑being benefits and perks. U.S.‑based employees also receive up to 12 scheduled paid holidays per calendar year and one Thrive Day off per quarter. Additionally, all employees have Flexible Time Off (FTO). The successful candidate may be eligible for a bonus and equity awards. Eligibility and amounts are determined by performance and the terms of the applicable plans.

• Region A: $220,000 — $303,600 USD
• Region B: $198,000 — $273,240 USD
• Region C: $187,200 — $258,336 USD

Equal Opportunity

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging gives us the greatest opportunity to achieve our vision to become the scaling engine for the Internet economy.

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression and identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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