5 hours ago
Base Salary
$155k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the high-QPS, low-latency ad serving path, including ad requests, candidate retrieval, auction serving, bid serving, and event and attribution pipelines.
- Improve yield across internal and external auctions through floor pricing, timeout and latency management, and network or exchange migrations.
- Build and operate advertiser-facing campaign and line-item models, targeting, budgets, pacing, spend accounting, billing, APIs, and workflows.
- Implement outbound bidding into external exchanges, including OpenRTB integrations, creative delivery, audience matching, bid pricing and shading, budget and QPS protection, and post-bid reconciliation.
- Build real-time revenue metrics, alerting, discrepancy detection, and diagnostics for the advertising money path.
- Collaborate with product, algorithm/modeling, SRE, and ad operations teams; lead design reviews and document subsystem ownership.
- Support creative and landing-page policy enforcement, fraud and cloaking detection, and invalid-traffic signals within the serving path.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating distributed, high-QPS, low-latency production services using Java, Go, C++, or similar technologies.
- Strong system design fundamentals, including service decomposition, data modeling, caching, streaming and messaging, analytical query engines, and AWS cloud infrastructure.
- End-to-end ownership of a revenue-critical or transaction-critical system, including accounting correctness, idempotency, reconciliation, and production operations.
- Ability to take ambiguous business problems through implementation, measurement, and production delivery on a small team.
- Strong written communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, including comfort with AI-assisted development workflows.
- Preferred: direct DSP, SSP, ad exchange, or ad server experience with OpenRTB, real-time auctions, header bidding, budget pacing, bid shading, and attribution or conversion measurement.
- Preferred: experience integrating Google Ad Manager, Ad Exchange, Meta or Google ad SDKs, or major mobile exchanges.
- Preferred: experience integrating ML model serving for CTR or CVR prediction and ranking into latency-sensitive auctions.
- Preferred: experience with brand safety, ad fraud, or invalid-traffic detection.
Benefits
- Full-time position with a stated annual base pay range of $155,000–$260,000 USD.
- May be eligible for a discretionary bonus and stock options.
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About NewsBreak
NewsBreak builds a local-news aggregation and discovery platform for U.S. consumers on web and mobile, powered by recommendation systems and NLP. It partners with publishers and independent creators and monetizes primarily through advertising for local and national businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the platform serves over 40 million monthly active users and aggregates content from more than 10,000 sources.