8 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and review product and platform architecture for the CTV AdServer across multiple teams.
- Own technical direction and multi-quarter roadmaps for scalable, low-latency distributed backend platforms and services.
- Document architectural decisions, communicate trade-offs, and establish platform-wide engineering standards.
- Audit designs, review major architecture changes, and serve as a technical escalation point for complex cross-cutting problems.
- Drive technology research, proof-of-concepts, and build-versus-adopt decisions.
- Partner with Data Center, DevOps, engineering, and product leaders on long-range technical planning and platform stability.
- Mentor Principal, Senior Principal, and other senior engineers through design reviews and hands-on guidance.
- Promote generative AI use across design, coding, testing, documentation, debugging, and development workflows.
Requirements
- 14+ years of hands-on C/C++ development experience in Linux/UNIX environments and a history of shipping large-scale distributed systems.
- Demonstrated experience defining architecture and technical direction across multiple teams or an entire platform.
- Deep knowledge of algorithms, advanced data structures, operating-system internals, multithreading, multiprocessing, memory management, and systems programming.
- Extensive experience designing complex, scalable, low-latency, high-throughput systems and identifying architectural risks.
- Strong ability to write and review architectural decision records and communicate technical trade-offs to engineering and product stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of Go, Perl, Python, Shell scripting, and preferably MySQL.
- Working knowledge of generative AI tools and IDEs, prompt-engineering fundamentals, and different model types.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or an equivalent degree; an advanced degree is preferred but not required.
- CTV/ad-serving experience is preferred, including ad decisioning, real-time bidding, VAST/VPAID/VMAP, SSAI/CSAI, HLS/DASH, IAB CTV/OTT specifications, streaming platforms, CTV measurement, and privacy and identity systems.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule of 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely.
- Healthcare insurance, broadband reimbursement, and paternity/maternity leave.
- Kitchen snacks and drinks and catered lunches when working in the office.
About PubMatic
PubMatic builds a sell-side programmatic advertising platform that helps digital publishers and commerce media networks monetize display, mobile, video, and in‑app inventory by connecting them with DSPs and buyers. Its business model centers on fees from real-time ad auctions and related services, including RTB, yield optimization, and AI-driven decisioning. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and is listed on NASDAQ under the ticker PUBM.