Staff Engineer, Data Platform

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 only be solved at internet scale and thats where the technical skills of our team make a real difference.

Our exchange handles over 500 billion requests every day (for comparison Google serves an estimated 9 billion searches a day) all running in our own global data centers. Every member of our technology team has an enormous amount of autonomy in building and managing our systems to support and enable our growing level of scale. Through the transparency of our technology dedication to innovation and integrity and longstanding customer relationships we lead through change.

Whats it like to work at Index

We have more than 550 Indexers around the globe dedicated to building a safe and transparent marketplace that provides a trusted experience for consumers.

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.

About The Role:

Were looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our team and help build the next generation of big data solutions at Index Exchange with realtime streaming and batch analytical is a big deal at Index Exchange (Index). Indexs advertising exchange handles billions of auctions and generates terabytes of auctionrelated information every day. Our team builds tools and infrastructure to manage this vast amount of data and make it available to both internal and external customers and partners for their reporting and analytics as well as machine model training needs.

Working with exciting technologies your team will experiment with new tools and engineer innovative approaches to solve interesting challenges. Things shift very quickly in our industry and we rely on our Engineering teams to keep Index and our clients ahead of the curve and moving in the right direction. Were looking for Engineers who have experience in an Agile environment who can drive innovation and be a technical leader on our team.

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

What Were Looking For:

• Experience and Leadership: A technical lead engineer with experience leading projects and mentoring junior developers. A leader who continuously challenges the status quo and brings forth innovative ideas and improvements for the team.
• Problem Solvers: You dont stop until the problem gets solved and you find more than one way to solve it. You love working with other people presenting your viewpoint but ultimately working towards the best solution regardless of where it comes from
• Knowledge Hungry: Learning new frameworks and languages is exciting to you youre not satisfied with the status quo. We use a variety of languages and tools to solve problems and were interested in what youre looking to learn.
• Passionate: You have a passion for Big Data and an interest in the latest trends and developments constantly researching new tools and data technologies

Heres What Youll be Doing:

• Evaluate new technologies design implement and maintain data pipelines for extraction transformation and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources to various data services
• Identify design and implement system performance improvements
• Identify design and implement internal process improvements
• Automate manual processes and optimize data delivery
• Lead and mentor team members
• Identify and assess potential solutions for technical and business suitability

Heres What You Need:

• Bachelor/ Masters Degree in Computer Science or Engineering related fields
• 8 years of experience as a Software Engineer in enterprise grade large scale distributed software product development
• 5 years of work experience designing and building high performance data pipelines and applications using Hadoop/Ceph Spark/Flink Hive Presto/Trino Kafka StarRocks/Vertica Airflow or other similar technologies
• Proficiency in some of the following languages: SQL Scala Java Python Bash
• Deep understanding of design principles of large scale distributed systems and familiar with mainstream big data related technologies and distributed frameworks
• Strong leadership mentorship and communication skills with experience collaboratingin a globally distributed culturally diverse team
• Knowledge of data modeling data warehousing streaming data processing and business intelligence reporting tools
• Experience working in Agile methodologies with continuous integration and delivery as CI/CD
• Experience working with containerization and virtualization tools such as Kubernetes and Docker

Why Youll Love Working Here:

• Comprehensive health dental and vision plans for you and your dependents
• Paid time off health days and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
• Competitive retirement matching plans
• Equity packages
• Generous parental leave available to birthing nonbirthing and adoptive parents
• Annual wellbeing allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
• Commuter benefits and discounts where available
• Employee assistance program
• Mental health first aid program that provides an inthemoment point of contact and reassurance
• One day of volunteer time off per year and a donationmatching program
• Biweekly town halls and regular communityled team events
• Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
• A workplace that supports a diverse equitable and inclusive environment learn more here

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 welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us.

If you require an accommodation pleasesharethe details of your request and any information how we can assist you with thehiring recruiter when they contact you. Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts toensure accommodation requests are metthroughoutthe recruitment process.

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Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto with major offices in New York Montreal Kitchener London San Francisco and many other global cities. As a major global advertising exchange we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.

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