Staff Software Engineer

Job Description:

We are currently looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team. As a Staff Software Engineer you will provide technical leadership and expertise to help build ad verification analytics and anti-ad fraud solutions that deliver on the teams mission of helping advertisers understand the quality of the ad opportunities theyre acquiring. If you are excited by technology that has the power to handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second collect tens of billions of events each day and evaluate thousands of data points in real-time all while responding in just a few milliseconds then IAS is the place for you!

The ideal candidate has a track record of architecting and building end-to-end software solutions enjoys working in a collaborative and agile environment and brings innovative solutions to complex problems with a desire to improve the status quo.

What youll do:

• Architect design build and integrate our core CTV measurement solutions

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams influencing the direction of projects and ensuring adherence to best practices.

• Lead the entire software lifecycle including hands-on development code reviews testing deployment and documentation

• Collaborate cross functionally with Product Software Engineers and Data Engineers to design code and maintain components for aggregating tens of billions of daily transactions

• Partner with the Product team and other stakeholders across the company to understand product requirements

• Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced exciting collaborative environment

• Maintain and recommend software improvements to ensure responsiveness efficiency strong functionality and optimization

• Help set the Technical Vision for the team identify and solve complex technical problems

Who you are and what you have:

• A degree in Software Engineering or related STEM degree

• 8 years of hands-on full-stack programming experience using Javascript and Java or Golang with a deep understanding of core principles

• Experience with web debugging using Chrome Dev Tools or similar browser debugging tools

• Experience with AWS tech stack including but not limited to EMR Athena EKS

• Experience working with big-data stack including (but not limited to) spark /hadoop kafka Aerospike / Dynamodb

• Expert knowledge of multi-threading memory model etc.

• Experience with CICD tools such as Jenkins Graphite Grafana and Docker

• Ability to communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences verbally and in writing

• Experience in Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban

• Great understanding of designing for performance scalability and reliability

• Experience in AWS or other cloud technologies

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

What puts you over the top:

• Experience in AdTech specifically CTV

• Knowledge of HTTP live streaming audio or video distribution platforms HTTPS HLS and/or DASH protocols

• Experience building software used in the delivery and distribution of audio or video across multiple platforms

• Experience in cloud systems preferably AWS. Distributed distributed services docker containers kubernetes

About Integral Ad Science:

Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a leading global media measurement and optimization platform that delivers the industrys most actionable data to drive superior results for the worlds largest advertisers publishers and media platforms. IASs software provides comprehensive and enriched data that ensures ads are seen by real people in safe and suitable environments while improving return on ad spend for advertisers and yield for publishers. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality. For more information visit .

Equal Opportunity Employer:

IAS is an equal opportunity employer committed to our diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race color nationality gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation religion disability or age. We strongly encourage women people of color members of the LGBTQIA community people with disabilities and veterans to apply.

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