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

The Core Services Site Reliability Engineering (Core Services SRE) team sets the foundations and maintains the principles of reliable engineering across StackAdapt's core service teams. 

Core service teams power StackAdapt's software backend, where all data processing occurs. The Core Services SRE team ensures robust and reliable software by building and operating self-healing systems that automatically deploy and manage the scaling of core services software, while championing and evangelizing the principles of reliable software and Site Reliability Engineering across the organization. 

StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in the United States or Canada for this position.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Maintain tooling, libraries, and infrastructure leveraged by all core service teams
• Develop and maintain infrastructure services that enable engineers to manage, deploy, and scale systems 
• Act as a technical leader, guiding core service teams to design robust and reliable software
• Propose, design, coordinate, and implement cross-cutting initiatives impacting all of core services, both as an individual contributor and as a technical leader
• Propose, design, document, and communicate evolving SRE best practices to keep StackAdapt's core service backend maintainable
• Conduct security reviews for new projects, technologies, and services

What You'll Bring to the Table:

• At least 5 years experience in Infrastructure, Cloud, or Backend engineering
• At least 5 years experience with AWS, or other Cloud provider
• Strong programming, system design, and scripting skills
• Deep understanding of infrastructure as a code and application/network security
• Experience setting up complex AWS environments with Terraform
• Database management experience is a plus 
• Experience with our existing technologies is a strong plus: Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant, Boundary, Consul, Waypoint, Redis, Aerospike, Go, ScyllaDB, Elasticsearch, RDS, Grafana, Prometheus, Kafka, Envoy, Nginx

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