Principal Engineer Performance

Index is a global advertising technology company helping media owners monetize their digital content through advertising so that consumers can continue enjoying free and open access to content online.

We shaped the earliest forms of ad tech and were looking for the technical expertise to help shape its future. Our customers have unique problems that can be solved at scale and thats where the technical skills of our team make a real difference. Our exchange handles more than 220 billion requests every day (which is even more than the New York Stock Exchange) and every member of our engineering team has an enormous amount of autonomy in building code that supports that level of scale. Through the transparency of our technology dedication to innovation and longstanding customer relationships we lead through change.

We have more than 500 Indexers around the globe dedicated to building a safe and transparent marketplace that provides a trusted experience for consumers.

Whats it like to work at Index

Index is an exciting and fastpaced place to work. Were built on our values of change support learning and teaching trust and intention. We pride ourselves on our independence and openness not only in our technology but in our teams too. Our diverse and inclusive culture celebrates how we can leverage our unique differences to help drive Index forward.

Our culture of success is truly supportive and collaborative. In working together across our teams were continually investing in the people and technology to solve the industrys most complex problems. As we extend the promise of ad tech to every channel were looking for talented engineers to help advance Index and the industry forward.

Are you ready to join the programmatic evolution

Index Exchange funds the open web. Content and journalism across the internet are funded through advertising and we are the engine that helps to make that happen transparently safely and efficiently. Handling hundreds of billions of auctions per day within milliseconds requires an intense understanding of the exchange and the ecosystem that we live in.

Our business is growing significantly every year and is poised to grow even faster. Our people and our platforms are the foundation and enabler of that growth. We are significantly expanding our technology teams and are looking for technologists with a passion for high performance software development and a drive to deliver software products and platforms that enable and empower industries at a global scale.

Were looking for a Principal Engineer (Performance) who can bring their depth and breadth of experience in performance optimizing largescale distributed systems to define our Indexwide technology strategy for performance profiling tooling and optimization our global exchange platform and to drive pragmatic and iterative improvement of same. This position will be reporting to the VP Platform Engineering.

Indexs scale spans the globe our transactions happen 24x7 and every second that passes millions of requests are evaluated across our exchange. In order to achieve our mission performance and efficiency are absolutely key as every millisecond quite literally counts in our business.

What Were Looking For:

A pragmatic and strategic technology leader:

• Learn and understand the business vision and market opportunity for the company

• Exceptional handson technology leader to drive and own the performance optimization vision direction and technology roadmap for system performance and optimization for all of Index Exchange

• Design develop and drive implementation of all performance and latencycritical services and pipelines in our exchange

• Design develop and drive implementation of performance profiling and optimization tooling and frameworks and integrate same into our build and validation pipelines

• Establish and advance best practices and standards for performance and latency critical pipelines and ensure that all Index engineering teams subscribe to same

• Manage all requirements related to performance and latency metrics and observability

• Develop and champion the nearterm targets against long term strategy for continuous performance and latency improvements for our exchange

• Make significant contributions while working cross functionally across engineering on the strategic technology roadmap for the company

A builder enabler and amplifier of world class engineering teams:

• As a key member of our core architecture team of the most senior technologists in the company lead the architecture and design for all technology platform modules and products for the company with a particular focus on pervasive performance and latency optimization profiling and observability

• Core member of team to build and evolve technology planning design and architectural process for all of Index driving collaborative engagement and enabling innovation from the entire organization

• As a key member of our technology leadership team organize and drive integrated release planning and coordination and design across platform software analytics and infrastructure teams

• Drive alignment across all agile engineering teams with a strong focus on best in class architectural and technology standards and engineering best practices

• Design and build quality performance security efficiency and reliability in from day one and inspire other team members to do the same

• Prototype vet and champion new technology introductions to our platform

• Effectively represent our performance capabilities and strategies to diverse internal teams as well as to external partners and customers

• A respected technical role model and mentor for engineering teams leading motivating and challenging a diverse globally distributed technology team

Growth focused performance leadership:

• Develop technology strategy clearly articulate and drive delivery as an initial hire of a new area of the business

• Build maintain and drive the technology roadmap in close collaboration with Chief Architect and other architects

• Champion quality and data driven decisions development and delivery

• Pragmatic technology leadership balancing longterm R&D investments with nearterm and business impact

• Communicate design and decisions and influence technology and product direction of peers and executive leadership

• Make and meet commitments communicating changes in plans whether they be design or timeline modifications honestly and transparently

Leadership role model and exemplar:

• Excellent communication skills which include active listening and the ability to present complex ideas in concise written and verbal descriptions which are easily understood by both technical and nontechnical audiences

• Strong people skills able to communicate with colleagues while simultaneously building credibility and rapport. Also able to modify ones behavioral style to respond to the needs of others while maintaining own objectives

• A technologists technologist able to lead high performance technology teams by example

• Ability to build and complement high performance teams with a natural ability to levelup highperforming engineers

• A strong leader who can lead manage and inspire teams both locally and remotely in todays increasingly virtual world

• An organized individual who is very detail oriented and can develop plans necessary for teams to meet specific goals

• An aggressive problem solver who can provide creative solutions to complex situations and obtain buyin from those affected

• An independent worker who can take the initiative to define and prioritize specific goals and objectives and to do the same for others

• A team player that works hard admits their strengths and weaknesses and has the flexibility to improve by learning new things

• Inspirational and resultsoriented leader capable of earning the trust and respect of high performing engineering teams

• High integrity. Great judgement. Persistent. Winning Attitude.

Heres What You Need:

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent

• 8 years of experience in large scale commercial software development environments (ad tech preferred)

• 4 years of significant technology leadership experience with high volume low latency distributed platforms (experience with globallydistributed industryscale platforms preferred) and large scale (preferably industry scale) performance and latency optimized pipelines and platforms

• Expert in software development lifecycle and performance profiling and optimization and how to drive the technology roadmap concurrent with the feature roadmap

• Demonstrated history as an advocate and coach for robust architectural patterns and frameworks test driven development and frequent delivery

• Expert in largescale system profiling concurrency and memory management and designing and building distributed systems

• Expert in establishing pragmatic performance metrics observability and targets for largescale systems (industry scale platform experience preferred)

• Demonstrated ability developing advancing and evolving a robust technology roadmap

• Demonstrated history of developing architectural designs and standards platforms and frameworks that are effectively leveraged by many development teams

• Expert in large scale distributed stores and streaming pipelines (AeroSpike. Kafka Flink Spark Hadoop Parquet Elasticsearch Vertica etc) in largescale highthroughput environments

• Expert at profiling and optimizing highvolume transaction flows using advanced analytics and machine learning

• Expert in leveraging continuous integration and robust build/test automation with a preference for crossplatform stacks and containerization (Git Sonar Kubernetes etc.

• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership to globally distributed high performance teams driving greenfield development in fast moving industries

• Demonstrated ability to recruit develop and grow high performing technical talent at all levels

Equal employment opportunity

At Index Exchange we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. As such we are committed to equal employment opportunities. We celebrate diversity of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or expression or veteran status. Additionally we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classificationdiversity is the human experience. For those who show grit passion and humilityIndex will welcome you.

Accessibility for applicants with disabilities

Index Exchange is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Please let us know if youd like to request a reasonable accommodation.