Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Delivery
StackAdaptResponsibilities
- Shape the long-term architecture and technical direction for Data Delivery and related Stats & Analytics systems.
- Lead initiatives spanning multiple teams, systems, and product areas.
- Build and guide systems supporting reporting, measurement, forecasting, billing, export, and analytics capabilities.
- Make high-impact technical decisions across APIs, data pipelines, data models, distributed systems, storage, serving layers, and operational patterns.
- Partner with product, engineering, data science, analytics, and business leaders on technical roadmaps.
- Identify and improve systemic gaps in reliability, scalability, data quality, developer experience, and operational ownership.
- Evaluate trade-offs involving correctness, latency, freshness, cost, migration complexity, maintainability, and long-term platform leverage.
- Coach and mentor engineers, including senior engineers, through architecture reviews, design discussions, and strategic technical guidance.
Requirements
- Experience shaping technical direction across teams, domains, or large platform areas.
- Deep experience building scalable services, distributed systems, data platforms, or data-intensive applications.
- Strong system design judgment across APIs, data pipelines, databases, distributed systems, observability, reliability, and long-term architecture.
- Ability to align engineering, product, data science, analytics, and business stakeholders around technical strategy.
- Ability to design platform systems that create leverage for multiple teams and enable future product development.
- Strong understanding of data correctness, freshness, completeness, consistency, explainability, cost efficiency, and customer trust.
- Ability to connect technical investments to customer impact, product velocity, reliability, and long-term business value.
- Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising engineering standards across a team or domain.
- Strong programming skills.
- Experience with Golang and technologies such as Kafka, TiDB, Redshift, Vitess, Iceberg, StarRocks, or Trino is a plus.
- Experience in adtech, marketing technology, reporting, analytics, billing, attribution, forecasting, or high-volume event processing is a plus.
Benefits
- Retirement, 401(k), or pension savings options globally.
- Competitive paid time off, including birthdays off.
- Comprehensive mental health care program.
- Health benefits from the first day of employment.
- Work-from-home reimbursements.
- Optional global WeWork membership and access to London and Toronto hubs.
- Training and onboarding program.
- Support for professional development initiatives such as conferences, courses, and books.
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications.
- Parental leave program.
- Social and team events.
- Benefits and perks may vary by country and engagement type.
- Remote role, as indicated by the #LI-REMOTE designation.
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About StackAdapt
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. Our state-of-the-art platform is where some of the most progressive work in machine learning meets cutting-edge user experience. StackAdapt is designed around the three core pillars of programmatic—planning, executing and analyzing. StackAdapt is ranked as the number 1 DSP on G2. For six consecutive years with over hundreds of reviews, StackAdapt has been recognized as a high performer and the highest-ranking DSP in customer satisfaction by G2. StackAdapt was also recognized as an Enterprise Fast 15 winner as part of the Technology Fast 50™ program in 2024 and is one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work in 2024. Learn more about StackAdapt here: www.stackadapt.com. And if you're looking for a change, we'd love to have you on our team—check out our open roles by visiting: www.stackadapt.com/careers. StackAdapt is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. We have teams and client support across North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.