Staff Engineer, Ads Engineering
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Job Location:
Richfield, MN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
24 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As the Staff Engineer with the Retail Media Network Ad Engineering you will lead the technical development and technical strategy of the companys self-service ad platform. This role is responsible for collaborating closely with product marketing data science and external partners to build and optimize a robust scalable and innovative ad platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in ad technology programmatic advertising with the ability to drive technical initiatives in a fast-paced dynamic environment. You will be a technical leader across multiple products or systems and recognized as an expert and thought leader in this area as well considered a mentor and teacher across squads with the ability to influence outside their direct teams.
This role is hybrid which means you will work some days on site at a Best Buy location and some days virtually from home or other non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process. For this role you must be located within a drivable distance to our office in Richfield Minnesota.
What youll do
This role is hybrid which means you will work some days on site at a Best Buy location and some days virtually from home or other non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process. For this role you must be located within a drivable distance to our office in Richfield Minnesota.
What youll do
- Influence and communicate architectural decisions across multiple systems balancing technical analytical and product considerations
- Solve complex engineering challenges including debugging triaging incident response and reverse-engineering
- Identify and recommend improvements in the SDLC support reliability and monitoring through tools and standards
- Maintain high standards of system quality performance and reliability ensuring robust custom-built solutions
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies applying best practices to enhance platform capabilities
- Build and nurture strong technical and business relationships expanding influence across teams and peers
Minimum Requirements
- 5 or more years of relevant experience with a Bachelors degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience
- 5 or more years of programming or scripting language experience (Java/Spring React Typescript)
- 3 or more years of experience building custom systems cloud environments (GCP & AWS) and architecture design in large environments
- 3 or more years of experience with systems like Postgres Kafka Redis Grafana Dynatrace and Kubernetes
- 1 or more years of experience with formal or informal Leadership
Preferred Requirements
- Bachelors degree in IT Computer Science Engineering or related field
- 7 or more years of relevant professional experience
- 5 or more years of experience with Cloud Platforms (AWC GCP)
- 3 years Experience with Retail Media Networks Ad Engineering Ad Servers or Demand Partners
- 5 years experience with engineering custom solutions using modern languages cloud technologies and SDLC practices and tools.
- Experience working in retail marketing or similar technologies and related areas
- Experience with Agile methodologies and modern software development practices including Scrum and Kanban
Whats in it for you
Were committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
Were committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Physical and mental well-being support
About us
As part of the Best Buy team youll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life in our stores online and in customers homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. Were committed to being a great place to work where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
As part of the Best Buy team youll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life in our stores online and in customers homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. Were committed to being a great place to work where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
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