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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 dcor 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
About InMobi DSP InMobis
Demand Side Platform (DSP) is redefining programmatic advertising with AI at its core. InMobis DSP empowers advertisers to reach and engage their audiences across the globe through programmatic buying at scale. Every day we process billions of ad requests in milliseconds applying advanced machine learning models for bidding targeting and personalizationwhile upholding the highest standards of privacy and compliance.
Our AI-driven architecture continuously learns from massive streams of data to optimize campaigns in real time enabling brands to engage audiences with unmatched precision and scale. As part of the DSP team youll engineer systems where distributed computing meets largescale inference and where every millisecond counts. Joining our DSP team means solving complex engineering challenges that shape the future of digital advertisingglobally.
About the Role
We are seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the future of our next-generation real-time machine-learning driven privacy-first advertising platform embedding machine learning and generative AI capabilities into every layer from ad targeting bidding strategies attribution to fraud detection and prevention to creative optimization. You will think AI-first designing and delivering systems where AI is not an afterthought but the foundation. You will be the technical north star for multiple teams influencing architecture driving innovation and solving some of the most complex problems in ad tech from sub-100ms auctions to millions of inferencing to evolving one of the biggest data stacks in the industry. Our systems handle millions of requests per second few hundred billions per day and we need You to lead the charge
This role demands deep systems expertise and the ability to harness AI to deliver measurable impact at internet scale.
What Youll Do
- Strategic Technology Vision and AI-First System Design
-Setting the multi-year technical roadmap balancing innovation revenue goals and regulatory constraints.
-Architect low-latency high-QPS ad-serving systems with AI inference at their core.
-Design pipelines that integrate ML model training deployment and continuous learning.
-Build features that leverage generative AI for creative optimization fraud detection and personalization.
-Partner with data scientists to translate model prototypes into scalable production systems.
- Scalability & Reliability
-Lead designs for systems processing billions of events daily with sub-100ms decisioning.
-Optimize infrastructure for both cost efficiency and model serving performance.
-Ensure fault tolerance and rapid recovery in global multi-region setups.
- Technical Leadership
-Lead architectural direction for our ad-serving bidding and targeting platforms handling billions of requests daily.
-Design and evolve low-latency fault-tolerant horizontally scalable systems.
-Drive privacy-by-design in all engineering initiatives ensuring compliance with GDPR CCPA and ATT. Review guide and influence high-impact technical decisions across multiple orgs.
- Execution & Delivery
- Own the end-to-end delivery of critical platform initiatives from concept to production.
-Solve performance bottlenecks optimize infra costs and raise system reliability.
-Champion best practices in software engineering observability and operational excellence.
- Influence Beyond Code
-Mentor senior engineers and emerging tech leads fostering deep technical growth.
-Act as a trusted advisor to product managers architects and leadership.
-Represent the engineering org in cross-functional initiatives and technical forums.
-Drive adoption of AI tooling observability and automation across the org.
- Privacy & Compliance by Design
-Implement AI solutions within GDPR CCPA ATT constraints.
-Embedding privacy-by-design principles into all data pipelines and ad targeting logic.
- Cross-functional Leadership
-Aligning engineers data scientists and product managers to execute on high-stakes launches.
- Talent Development
-Mentoring budding engineering leaders growing technical depth and fostering innovation culture.
- Behavioral & Leadership Skills You Need To Succeed In This Role
- Problem Solver. Incredible Problem Solving Ability
-AI-first mindset instinctively evaluate how AI can improve outcomes.
-Think and operate at system-level scale understand trade-offs and long-term impact.
-High-Impact Delivery. Driving a mission-critical release under tight deadlines.
-Financially Responsible Engineering. Reducing infra costs or latency significantly while maintaining performance.
-Balance technical excellence with business needs know when to innovate vs. iterate. Force multiplier elevate teams by enabling better decisions faster execution and shared technical context.
-Excellent communication skills can explain complex systems to executives and mentor junior engineers alike.
-Resilient under pressure able to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity.
-Influence Without Authority. Collaborative and influential earns trust without relying on authority.
-Culture & Bar Raising. Championing technical standards that scales across the org.
Technical Skills You Need To Succeed In This Role -
-Polyglot. Expertise in high level programming languages preferably Java Go Python or C
-Demonstrated Experience in High Scale Cloud-native Architecture (GCP/AWS)
-Deep Hands-on Experience in Kubernetes at internet scale Service Mesh and MicroServices
-Prior experience of building high scale AI/ML enabled systems is a plus
-Exposure to Large-scale model engineering and deployment ecosystem (TensorFlow PyTorch Sagemaker)
-Deep experience in Distributed Data Processing (Kafka) Streaming (Flink Spark Streaming Beam) Distributed Stores (Cassandra Bigtable Aerospike Redis) Modern Analytics and DataWarehouse Systems (ClickHouse Pinot Snowflake) and the Storage Formats (Iceberg)
-Experience in Real Time Bidding programmatic advertising or personalization systems is preferred
-Open-source contributions or a presence in developer communities is a plus.
-Advocate and Champion of Software Engineering Practices (CI/CD TTD)
The InMobi Culture
At InMobi culture isnt a buzzword; its an ethos woven by every InMobian reflecting our diverse backgrounds and experiences.
We thrive on challenges and seize every opportunity for growth. Our core values thinking big being passionate showing accountability and taking ownership with freedom guide us in every decision we make.
We believe in nurturing and investing in your development through continuous learning and career progression with our InMobi Live Your Potential program.
InMobi is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process and in the workplace.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
