SDE IV Engineering

InMobi Advertisingis a global technology leader helping marketers win the moments that matter. Our advertising platform reaches over 2 billion people across 150 countries and turns real-time context into business outcomes delivering results grounded in privacy-first principles. Trusted by 30000 brands and leading publishers InMobi is where intelligence creativity and accountability converge. By combining lock screens apps TVs and the open web with AI and machine learning we deliver receptive attention precise personalization and measurable impact.

Through Glance AIwe are shaping AI Commerce reimagining the future of e-commerce with inspiration-led discovery and shopping. Designed to seamlessly integrate into everyday consumer technology Glance AI transforms every screen into a gateway for instant personal and joyful discovery. Spanning diverse categories such as fashion beauty travel accessories home décor pets and beyond Glance AI delivers deeply personalized shopping rich first-party data and unparalleled consumer access it harnesses InMobis global scale insights and targeting capabilities to create high impact performance driven shopping journeys for brands worldwide.

Recognized as a Great Place to Work and by MIT Technology Review Fast Companys Top 10 Innovators and more InMobi is a workplace where bold ideas create global impact. Backed by investors including SoftBank Kleiner Perkins and Sherpalo Ventures InMobi has offices across San Mateo New York London Singapore Tokyo Seoul Jakarta Bengaluru and beyond.

AtInMobi Advertising youll have the opportunity to shape how billions of users connect with content commerce and brands worldwide. To learn more visit

Who are we and What do we do

We help advertisers reach and engage with their target audience globally. We do this through a deep understanding of people which is enabled through our algorithms that respect privacy. Today some of the worlds largest brands agenciesdevelopersand publishers are creating great value by using our platforms to delivercompellingproposition to their target consumers.
Currently we provide over 1.4 billion mobile users with relevant advertisements that enable meaningful decisions. We display 10 billion advertisements on a daily basis!

About the role

Were hiring a Tech Lead / SDE IV to anchor and grow our Data Engineering capability within our Demand-Side Platform (DSP). This is a high-impact technically hands-on leadership role at the intersection of real-time data infrastructure programmatic advertising and scalable backend systems.

Youll own the design and delivery of pipelines that power bidding intelligence audience targeting campaign analytics and attribution processing billions of bid-stream events daily. Alongside your data engineering mandate youll architect and contribute to backend microservices at the core of our DSP stack including integrations with SSPs ad exchanges and identity resolution platforms.

Youll mentor a team of engineers drive technical direction and collaborate closely with product ML and growth functions to turn data into a true competitive advantage.

What Youll Do

• Own end-to-end data pipelines batch and real-time for bid requests win/loss events impression logs click streams and conversion signals at scale.
• Build and maintain our data lakehouse (ingestion storage serving) for low-latency DSP analytics and ML feature generation.
• Own our StarRocks deployment for real-time analytical queries; drive FinOps discipline and data governance (metadata PII GDPR/CCPA).
• Architect DSP backend microservices bid shading pacing budget management reporting APIs and the data contracts between them.
• Set standards for API design service reliability and observability; ensure low-latency data reads (Aerospike Cassandra) for the bidding path.
• Lead architecture reviews mentor SDE II/III engineers and own the technical roadmap for data infrastructure.
• Partner with ML engineers across the feature engineering training and model-serving lifecycle.

What Were Looking For

• 8 years of software engineering experience including 4 years in data engineering or large-scale data systems; ad-tech programmatic or RTB experience strongly preferred.
• Deep expertise in distributed stream processing (Kafka Flink or Spark Structured Streaming) and strong SQL at petabyte scale.
• Hands-on experience with real-time analytical databases (StarRocks Snowflake or ClickHouse) orchestration tools (Airflow Prefect Dagster) and open table formats (Iceberg Delta Lake Hudi).
• Proficiency in Python (primary) and/or Java/Scala REST/gRPC microservices Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of the RTB ecosystem (OpenRTB SSPs ad exchanges) identity resolution (UID2/RampID) and privacy regulations (GDPR/CCPA).
• Demonstrated experience leading technical squads with strong communication skills and a track record of shipping from ambiguous requirements to production.

Our Stack

Kafka Flink Spark StarRocks / ClickHouse Iceberg Airflow Python / Java / Scala Kubernetes / GKE Aerospike dbt Terraform OpenRTB

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