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Staff II Software Engineer, Data Ingestion
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
About the Team:
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer I/II to join our Data Ingestion Team, which builds and operates the critical infrastructure that serves as the “front door” of StackAdapt’s event flow. In this role, you’ll own technical direction for critical parts of our ingestion platform, lead large-scale initiatives, and shape how data flows across the company.
The Data Ingestion team tackles complex distributed systems challenges at massive scale, with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability. Our systems process over 10 billion events per day, powering core functions across bidding, reporting, billing, analytics, and machine learning. You will work on challenging technical problems and partner with teams across the company to drive key initiatives.
We design + build low-latency, highly reliable distributed systems for impressions, clicks, conversions, and third-party signals, ensuring data is accurate and available to downstream teams in real time. This is a high-impact area at the core of StackAdapt’s platform, the systems you own will directly shape data quality, system reliability, and the speed at which teams across the company can build and innovate. Our work sits at the cutting edge of large-scale distributed systems, leveraging modern technologies and architectures to solve complex real-time data challenges. The core stack includes Golang, Kafka, TiDB, Aerospike, Vitess, Kubernetes, and more.
If you enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems at scale and driving technical impact across teams, this role would be a great fit for you.
StackAdapt is a Remote First company. We are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada or the United States for this position.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own and lead large technical initiatives end-to-end, from design through production and monitoring
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the team
- Design, build, and operate highly scalable, distributed ingestion services for real-time and near-real-time scenarios
- Contribute hands-on as needed while enabling the team to execute effectively
- Build and maintain event ingestion pipelines using streaming technologies like Kafka
- Work with high-volume storage systems and databases to persist and serve data efficiently
- Partner with Data, ML, Product, and Platform teams to support evolving requirements
- Improve code quality, testing practices, system reliability, and observability
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions
- Balance and prioritize projects to maximize impact and align with company objectives
What You’ll Bring to the Table:
- Extensive experience building distributed systems and high-throughput backend services
- Proven ability to lead technical direction and drive large, cross-team initiatives
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with comfort working in ambiguous, complex domains
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across teams
- Ability to think strategically, lead technically, and drive high-impact, scalable solutions
- Hands-on experience with streaming systems (Kafka or similar)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs (consistency, availability, partition tolerance, scalability)
- Maintains an AI-forward approach to software engineering - leveraging AI to boost productivity, collaboration, and business automation
- Bonus: Familiarity with AdTech, event-driven architectures, or analytics systems
#LI-TM8
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Staff Engineer, FinOps & Cost Platform
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
We are looking for a Staff Engineer, FinOps & Cost Platform to build and lead our engineering cost-management capability. This is a founding individual contributor role focused on improving visibility, understanding, and optimization across all engineering-controlled spend, including cloud infrastructure and engineering-owned technical vendors.
You will build the systems, tooling, and data models required to make engineering spend attributable, explainable, and actionable. In the near term, you will drive measurable savings. Over time, you will help build showback, chargeback, and unit-cost capabilities that allow us to understand the cost of services, platforms, and customer footprint more deeply.
What You’ll Do
- build the internal cost platform and reporting model for engineering spend
- own analysis and optimization of AWS and engineering-owned vendor spend
- improve cost attribution, tagging, and data quality
- define and implement showback, chargeback, and unit-cost models
- partner with engineering teams to drive optimization opportunities
- partner with finance and procurement on forecasting, renewals, and vendor rationalization
- design telemetry-backed cost models that connect infrastructure spend to real usage
- establish governance, review cadences, and cost-aware engineering practices
What We’re Looking For
- strong infrastructure or platform engineering background
- deep experience with AWS or comparable cloud environments
- proven experience with cost optimization, capacity economics, or FinOps-like work
- strong analytical and data-modeling ability
- hands-on experience building tooling, dashboards, or internal platforms
- ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority
- strong communication across technical and business audiences
Nice to Have
- experience with CloudZero, Apptio, CloudHealth, or similar platforms
- showback or chargeback experience
- telemetry or unit-cost modeling experience
- engineering-vendor utilization and cost-governance experience
- prior experience building a new internal capability from scratch
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Software Engineer, Stats & Analytics
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
About the Stats & Analytics Team:
The Stats and Analytics team at StackAdapt solves complex distributed system challenges, focusing on scalability, performance, reliability, and data consistency. We leverage a modern tech stack that includes Golang for high-performance services, TiDB for scalable SQL databases, Redshift and Snowflake for data warehousing, Kafka for real-time streaming, Elasticsearch for analytics, and HDFS for distributed storage. The Stats & Analytics team is structured into three sub teams: Data Ingestion, Data Platform and Data Delivery.
StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada or the United States for this position.
About the Data Delivery Team:
This team is responsible for transforming foundational data into customer-facing insights and products. Data Delivery builds the pipelines, services, and APIs that power reporting, billing, pacing, and analytics experiences across the platform. Working closely with Product and Web teams, they ensure data is accurate, accessible, and actionable for both internal stakeholders and advertisers.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Building highly scalable, distributed real-time micro-services primarily written in Go
- Working with large data sets and various databases including Aerospike, Elasticsearch, Redis, ScyllaDB, Redshift, TiDB, MariaDB
- Working with data lakehouse technologies like Apache Iceberg, Apache Trino, and real-time analytics technologies like StarRocks and Clickhouse
- Build software that utilize messaging queues such as Kafka, SQS, and Kinesis
- Write performance efficient and memory optimized code
What You'll Bring to the Table
- 2+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer.
- Very strong problem solving skills in data structures, algorithms, and optimization
- Experience working with relational databases and/or key-value stores
- Experience building scalable micro-services and distributed systems
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Staff Software Engineer - Data Delivery
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
About the team
The Data Delivery team builds the systems that help StackAdapt customers and internal teams understand campaign performance.
We process, organize, and serve large volumes of campaign and marketing data so it can be used reliably across customer-facing dashboards, reporting, billing, planning, campaign pacing, measurement, exports, and internal analytics.
Our work turns raw activity — such as impressions, clicks, conversions, spend, pacing, audience reach, creative performance, and cross-channel engagement — into accurate and actionable insights.
The team works closely with product managers, backend engineers, web engineers, data scientists, analysts, business teams, and customer-facing teams to make data accurate, timely, scalable, and easy to use.
Why this role matters
StackAdapt is expanding into the next generation of AI-powered advertising and marketing execution. As the platform grows across media, email, social, and emerging AI-powered channels, customers need a trusted view of performance across the full customer journey.
The Data Delivery team is at the forefront of making this possible. We build the reporting, measurement, planning, billing, API, export, and data-serving systems that help customers trust the data, understand performance, and optimize campaigns.
As a Staff Software Engineer I on Data Delivery, you will lead complex technical initiatives across backend systems, with a focus on measurement and planning. You will act as a project and domain DRI for this area: translating product requirements into technical requirements, clarifying feasibility and trade-offs, shaping milestones, identifying risks, and keeping execution moving.
You will partner closely with product, engineering, and engineering management to recommend technical options, push back on unrealistic plans when needed, and help the team make sound decisions. Your work will help build the technical foundation for reliable customer-facing insights and make new product capabilities easier to launch and scale.
To learn more about StackAdapt’s broader platform vision, watch Yang Han discuss the evolution of StackAdapt’s AI-powered advertising and marketing platform: How AI Advertising Platform StackAdapt Connects Marketers With Agencies - CTO Yang Han
What you’ll be doing
- Domain ownership: Act as a project and domain DRI for measurement and planning initiatives within Data Delivery.
- Technical planning: Translate product requirements into technical requirements, clarify feasibility and trade-offs, shape milestones, and identify risks early.
- Execution leadership: Keep complex initiatives moving by unblocking decisions, coordinating across teams, and giving engineering leadership clear options and recommendations.
- Scalable data systems: Build reliable systems that process, organize, and serve large volumes of campaign and marketing data across StackAdapt.
- Customer-facing impact: Power reporting, measurement, planning, billing, pacing, exports, APIs, and analytics that customers and internal teams depend on.
- System design: Make thoughtful technical decisions that balance correctness, reliability, latency, freshness, cost, and long-term maintainability.
- Cross-functional partnership: Work closely with product, engineering, data science, analytics, and business teams to turn product goals into strong technical solutions.
- Operational excellence: Improve monitoring, testing, data quality, incident response, and documentation so our systems are easier to trust and operate.
- Technical mentorship: Support engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and clear communication of trade-offs.
What you’ll bring
- Backend and data systems experience: Strong experience building scalable services, distributed systems, data platforms, or data-intensive applications.
- Project leadership: Experience leading complex technical projects with ambiguous requirements, multiple stakeholders, and meaningful trade-offs.
- System design depth: Strong judgment across APIs, data pipelines, databases, distributed systems, observability, reliability, and operational ownership.
- Data quality mindset: Ability to reason about correctness, freshness, completeness, consistency, cost efficiency, and customer trust.
- Product judgment: Interest in building systems that support customer-facing reporting, measurement, planning, optimization, and analytics.
- Technical communication: Ability to explain decisions clearly, align stakeholders, and document important trade-offs.
- Mentorship: Experience helping other engineers grow and raising the technical bar of a team.
- Technical stack: Strong programming skills; experience with Golang and technologies such as Kafka, TiDB, Redshift, Vitess, Iceberg, StarRocks, or Trino is a plus.
- Domain experience: Experience in adtech, marketing technology, reporting, analytics, billing, attribution, planning, or high-volume event processing is a plus.
What success looks like
You will help Data Delivery build trusted, scalable, and efficient data systems that customers and internal teams rely on to understand performance and make better decisions.
In practice, this means:
- Measurement and planning initiatives have clear technical direction, realistic milestones, and strong execution across teams.
- Customers can trust the data they use to evaluate and optimize campaigns.
- Core data systems are more reliable, scalable, and easier to build on.
- New metrics, datasets, APIs, exports, and reporting capabilities can launch faster and with greater confidence.
- Product and engineering teams can build new advertising, marketing, measurement, and AI-powered capabilities more easily.
- The team makes better technical decisions because trade-offs are clearly understood and communicated.
- Engineers around you grow through your mentorship, guidance, and example.
- Data Delivery helps StackAdapt scale new product opportunities by giving customers a trusted view of performance across channels and the customer journey.
#LI-TM8
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Delivery
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
About the team
The Data Delivery team builds the systems that help StackAdapt customers and internal teams understand campaign performance.
We process, organize, and serve large volumes of campaign and marketing data so it can be used reliably across customer-facing dashboards, reporting, billing, forecasting, campaign pacing, measurement, exports, and internal analytics.
Our work turns raw activity — such as impressions, clicks, conversions, spend, pacing, audience reach, creative performance, and cross-channel engagement — into accurate and actionable insights.
The team works closely with product managers, backend engineers, web engineers, data scientists, analysts, business teams, and customer-facing teams to make data accurate, timely, scalable, and easy to use.
Why this role matters
StackAdapt is expanding into the next generation of AI-powered advertising and marketing execution. As the platform grows across media, email, social, and emerging AI-powered channels, customers need a trusted view of performance across the full customer journey.
The Data Delivery team is at the forefront of making this possible. We build the reporting, measurement, forecasting, billing, API, export, and data-serving systems that help customers trust the data, understand performance, and optimize campaigns.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on Data Delivery, you will help shape the long-term technical strategy for Data Delivery and the broader Stats & Analytics domain. You will work across teams to understand how the platform fits together, identify the right technical investments, and enable new product and feature development through scalable, reliable, and well-designed data systems.
This role is ideal for someone who can operate across a broad technical surface area, connect product goals with platform architecture, and influence technical direction beyond a single team.
To learn more about StackAdapt’s broader platform vision, watch Yang Han discuss the evolution of StackAdapt’s AI-powered advertising and marketing platform:
How AI Advertising Platform StackAdapt Connects Marketers With Agencies - CTO Yang Han
What you’ll be doing
- Technical strategy: Shape the long-term architecture and technical direction for Data Delivery and related Stats & Analytics systems.
- Cross-team leadership: Lead initiatives that span multiple teams, systems, and product areas, helping teams align on durable technical solutions.
- Platform enablement: Build and guide systems that make it easier to launch new reporting, measurement, forecasting, billing, export, and analytics capabilities.
- System design: Make high-impact technical decisions across APIs, data pipelines, data models, distributed systems, storage, serving layers, and operational patterns.
- Product partnership: Work with product, engineering, data science, analytics, and business leaders to translate company priorities into technical roadmaps.
- Technical quality: Identify systemic gaps in reliability, scalability, data quality, developer experience, and operational ownership, then drive improvements.
- Decision-making: Clarify trade-offs around correctness, latency, freshness, cost, migration complexity, maintainability, and long-term platform leverage.
- Technical mentorship: Coach and mentor engineers, including senior engineers, through architecture reviews, design discussions, and strategic technical guidance.
What you’ll bring
- Broad technical leadership: Experience shaping technical direction across teams, domains, or large platform areas.
- Backend and data systems expertise: Deep experience building scalable services, distributed systems, data platforms, or data-intensive applications.
- Strategic system design: Strong judgment across APIs, data pipelines, databases, distributed systems, observability, reliability, and long-term architecture.
- Cross-functional influence: Ability to align engineering, product, data science, analytics, and business stakeholders around technical strategy.
- Platform thinking: Ability to design systems that create leverage for multiple teams and make future product development easier.
- Data quality mindset: Strong ability to reason about correctness, freshness, completeness, consistency, explainability, cost efficiency, and customer trust.
- Business and product judgment: Ability to connect technical investments to customer impact, product velocity, reliability, and long-term business value.
- Technical communication: Ability to explain complex technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Mentorship: Experience developing senior engineers and raising engineering standards across a team or domain.
- Technical stack: Strong programming skills; experience with Golang and technologies such as Kafka, TiDB, Redshift, Vitess, Iceberg, StarRocks, or Trino is a plus.
- Domain experience: Experience in adtech, marketing technology, reporting, analytics, billing, attribution, forecasting, or high-volume event processing is a plus.
What success looks like
You will help Data Delivery and the broader Stats & Analytics domain build trusted, scalable, and efficient data systems that enable faster product development and better customer outcomes.
In practice, this means:
- Data Delivery has a clear long-term technical direction that supports StackAdapt’s product and platform growth.
- Teams can launch new reporting, measurement, forecasting, billing, export, and analytics capabilities faster and with greater confidence.
- Core data systems are more reliable, scalable, cost-efficient, and easier to evolve.
- Product and engineering teams have a stronger understanding of how Stats & Analytics systems fit together.
- Technical trade-offs are clearly understood, documented, and aligned across teams.
- Engineers around you grow through your mentorship, strategic guidance, and example.
- Data Delivery helps StackAdapt scale new advertising and marketing opportunities by giving customers a trusted view of performance across channels and the customer journey.
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Programmatic Bidding
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
About the Team:
The Programmatic Bidding team powers our Adtech platform by processing billions of ad auctions every day at millisecond latency. Our Bidding team designs, and builds scalable microservices that span every core aspect of the Adtech pipeline—including pacing, machine learning, bid price optimization, user-profile enrichment, and more. The StackAdapt bidding platform supports hundreds of thousands of advertisers, delivering real-time, intelligent and performant bidding decisions ensuring that every bid is both efficient, and strategically aligned with our customer's business goals. We empower our customers with the best performance driven platform for them to drive the best business decisions, and ROI.
The ideal candidates we're looking for must have proven experience in Adtech, exceptional analytical thinking, and superior execution skills. You'll thrive here if you are eager to build and experiment with new technologies and approaches, and can back your ideas with rigorous analysis and data-driven, pragmatic approaches.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Lead and collaborate with a team of engineers to design, implement, and optimize our programmatic bidding systems.
- Apply analytical, data-driven, and statistical methodologies to problem solving. Continuously optimizing programmatic performance through experimentation and quantitative analysis.
- Collaborate with ML engineers to architect and to build complex, innovative solutions that pushes the boundaries of programmatic advertising capabilities, and drive impactful business results.
- Rigorously optimize large-scale distributed systems capable of handling billions of requests per second with ms-level latency, ensuring high throughput and infrastructure performance under demanding workloads.
- Partner with Product teams to ship innovative features that advance the company's vision, and drive competitive advantage.
- Embody the team mission. Be adaptable, and ground development efforts in pragmatic, results-oriented decision making.
- Foster operational excellence across engineering and backend teams by cultivating a culture of trust, transparency and technical excellence
- Clearly articulate development ideas and hypotheses, openly embrace technical feedback to support collaborative innovation and continuous improvement.
What You'll Bring to the Table:
- 3+ years of experience in AdTech or MarTech, ideally working on high-scale or performance-critical systems.
- Advanced programming expertise in Go (or strong proficiency in comparable languages such as C++, Java, Scala, or Rust). We value engineers who can deliver high-performance applications regardless of language.
- Experience applying machine learning, mathematics, and numerical methods—including deploying large-scale models and real-time inference systems in production. (This is an applied engineering role, not research-focused.)
- 5+ years of experience in software development, particularly building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and architecting scalable microservices or data pipelines in a fast-growing tech environment.
- Hands-on experience with multiple database systems, with a solid grasp of their trade-offs and performance considerations.
- Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
- Up-to-date knowledge of modern technologies, tools, and frameworks, with curiosity to continuously learn and evolve.
- Bonus: Interest or experience in computational graphics, GPU programming, game development, game theory, or financial trading systems.
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Staff Software Engineer, User Profile
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
About the Team:
Our systems are built in Golang and handle millions of requests per second with an SLA of 100ms. We leverage AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, ScyllaDB, and other modern tools and databases. It’s important to note that we are a software services team, not a data engineering team.
Watch our talk at Amazon Tech Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRqu-a4gPuU
StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada or the United States for this position.
What you'll be doing:
- Architect scalable, low-latency backend systems and data pipelines while writing code as necessary to support the team
- Provide technical leadership in the design of scalable solutions and the establishment of best practices
- Contribute positively to the team's productivity and growth
- Advocate for software development best practices and conduct thorough code reviews
- Proactively identify and address technical challenges
What you'll bring to the table:
- Proven track record of building scalable, distributed, data-intensive systems
- Experience working with large data in low-latency environments
- At least 7 years of experience in software development for distributed systems, architecting scalable microservices, and data pipelines in a successful high-growth technology company
- A strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms
- Up-to-date knowledge and experience in the latest technologies, tools, and frameworks
- Adtech or Martech experience is a plus
- Experience with Go and high-performance databases is a plus
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
Ready to apply?
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Software Engineer, Integrations Services
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
We're seeking a Software Engineer to help our growing backend engineering team. We’re working on an exciting new data engineering initiative to solve a hard and complex big data problem, leveraging new technologies, at the core of what StackAdapt is built upon. We are seeking experienced software engineering candidates to help us design and build this from the ground up! Our real-time advertising bidding system handles over 3,000,000 requests per second and stores several terabytes of data every day. Our technologies include Go, Ruby on Rails, Aerospike, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, RocksDB, Redshift, ScyllaDB, GraphQL and others. We're not afraid to test and try new technologies.
Watch our talk at Amazon Tech Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRqu-a4gPuU
StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada for this position.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Work with a team of engineers to build first-party and third-party data integration with external data sources
- Build and architect scalable low-latency backend systems and big data pipelines
- Provide technical guidance in designing scalable solutions and best practices
- Make a positive impact on the team's productivity and growth
- Promote software development best-practices and conduct rigorous code reviews
- Rigorously identify and solve technical challenges
- Write performance efficient and memory optimized code that can scale with the volume of data that we ingest
What You'll Bring to the Table:
- Proven track record of building scalable data pipelines and services
- Experience with working with large data in low-latency environments
- Software development experience in distributed systems, architecting scalable microservices and data pipelines in a successful high-growth technology company
- A strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms
- Up to date knowledge and experience in the latest technologies, tools, and frameworks
- Experience with data engineering tools and frameworks (Spark, Flink, Apache Beam, BigQuery, Redshift, dbt, etc)
- Experience with Go and high performance databases is a plus
- Adtech or Martech experience is an asset
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer, Mobile App User Acquisition
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
What you'll be doing:
- Design & Build: Develop high-performance, data-intensive microservices (primarily in Go) that drive real-time bidding and user acquisition outcomes for mobile apps.
- Scale Systems: Architect and maintain event-driven data pipelines that process billions of mobile signals daily, ensuring low-latency and highly available services.
- Optimize User Acquisition: Collaborate with data scientists and product teams to integrate ML models and sophisticated targeting logic into the bidding process to achieve optimal campaign performance.
- Leverage Modern Technologies: Work with our evolving stack, including Go, Ruby on Rails, Aerospike, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redshift, ScyllaDB, GraphQL, and other emerging technologies.
- Ensure Efficiency: Write performance-efficient, memory-optimized code and continually refine services for reliability, scalability, and speed.
- Data-Driven Insights: Partner with analytics and data engineering to build and optimize reporting systems that surface actionable insights for our clients’ user acquisition campaigns.
What you'll bring to the table:
- 5+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer, with exposure to large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines in a mobile user acquisition environment.
- Strong Problem-Solving: Demonstrated expertise in algorithms, data structures, and complex system design—comfortable tackling low-latency, high-throughput challenges.
- Database Mastery: Experience working with both relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Aerospike, Redis, ScyllaDB) for storing and retrieving large volumes of data.
- Microservices & Messaging: Hands-on experience with building microservices and using message queues (Kafka, SQS, Kinesis) to handle massive event streams in real time.
- Performance Focus: Proven track record of writing highly optimized, scalable code in Go or similar languages.
- Team Player: Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a cross-functional, globally distributed environment.
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
Ready to apply?
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Senior Software Engineer, Stats & Analytics - Data Platform
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
StackAdapt is a Remote First company, and we are open to candidates located anywhere in the United States or Canada.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Design and build scalable data pipelines, batch jobs, and streaming processes that power analytics and machine learning.
- Implement and optimize data storage systems (warehouses, lakes, analytical databases) with a focus on reliability, lineage, and governance.
- Develop tools and frameworks to support data orchestration, ETL workflows, and big data processing.
- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and product managers to align platform capabilities with business needs.
- Ensure data systems meet requirements for quality, scalability, and cost efficiency in cloud environments.
- Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, and system design sessions.
- Take ownership of features and projects, driving them from concept to production.
What You'll Bring to the Table
- Strong background in software engineering, data engineering and distributed systems, ideally at scale (terabytes+).
- Hands-on experience with modern data warehouses, lakes, and compute/storage technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Pinot, TiDB, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Trino/Presto).
- Experience designing and building robust ETL pipelines and real-time streaming processes.
- Solid understanding of data governance, lineage, and cost optimization in cloud environments.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and performant code in production systems.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Engineering Manager I/II - User Profile
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
About the Team:
What You'll Be Doing:
- Lead a backend engineering team focused on user and audience data
- Drive complex, cross-team initiatives across multiple domains
- Design and own scalable, low-latency backend systems and data pipelines
- Mentor engineers and support team growth, performance, and productivity
- Promote engineering best practices through strong technical leadership and code reviews
- Identify and solve complex technical challenges
- Establish and evolve development processes using modern methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Own the technical roadmap and software delivery for your team
- Interview and hire high-performing engineering talent
- Balance priorities to ensure alignment with company goals
- Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders (Product, Project Management)
- Support systems operating under global compliance frameworks
What You'll Bring to the Table
- 2+ years of people management or mentorship experience
- 5+ years of backend development experience in distributed systems, microservices, and data pipelines
- Experience in a high-growth technology environment (preferred)
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Golang preferred; Java, Kotlin, C++, or similar)
- Proven ability to deliver results while leading and scaling teams
- Experience as a hands-on leader managing 3–10 direct reports
- Working knowledge of modern development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
Bonus:
- Adtech experience, particularly with Demand Side Platforms (DSPs)
- Experience with compliance frameworks such as GDPR or CCPA
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Software Engineer, Backend
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StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
What you'll be doing:
- Building highly scalable, distributed real-time micro-services primarily written in Go
- Working with large data sets and various databases including Aerospike, Elasticsearch, Redis, ScyllaDB, Redshift, TiDB, MariaDB
- Build software that utilize messaging queues such as Kafka, SQS, and Kinesis
- Write performance efficient and memory optimized code
We'll be reaching out to candidates that have:
- 2+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer.
- Very strong problem solving skills in data structures, algorithms, and optimization
- Experience working with relational databases and/or key-value stores
- Experience building scalable micro-services and distributed systems
Teams Hiring at StackAdapt 
Bidding Team (AdTech at Scale)
- Build and optimize the real-time microservices that automatically purchase ad inventory across web, mobile, CTV, and more.
- Work on low-level performance optimizations, high-throughput systems, campaign pacing algorithms, and ML model integrations that directly impact how millions of dollars are spent efficiently every day.
- Ideal for engineers with hands-on AdTech experience, especially with bidders, open exchanges, and bid streams, who thrive in high-scale, low-latency environments.
Marketing Execution (MarTech Meets AdTech)
- Join a backend team doing something different: building the foundation for marketing tech, i.e. Email, Direct Mail and SMS marketing as part of StackAdapt’s broader MarTech vision.
- Help bridge MarTech and AdTech to create a smarter, more connected marketing platform that allows brands to conduct their advertising and marketing strategies in one place.
- Perfect for engineers excited by greenfield development, working on high-throughput event-driven systems, and shaping how marketing technology evolves at StackAdapt.
Integrations - Solutions (Platform Expansion & Partnerships)
- Develop specialized integrations that unify the fragmented AdTech ecosystem into a single, powerful StackAdapt platform - eliminating the need for advertisers to juggle multiple tools.
- Collaborate closely with internal product teams and external data partners to deepen product capabilities, unlock new use cases, and drive platform growth.
- A great fit for engineers who enjoy complex integrations, data-heavy systems, and building scalable solutions that expand market reach.
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
Please note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.
2026 Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
Ready to apply?
Apply to StackAdapt