Staff Software Engineer, Ads Measurement & Orchestration
Databricks5 hours ago
Base Salary
$191k - $254k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the ingestion and normalization path for advertising platform data at scale, including rate limits, schema drift, backfills, and restated numbers.
- Design aggregation and identity layers that reconcile data across advertising platforms.
- Lead development of agentic workflows that parse, interpret, present, and act on performance data.
- Set the correctness and evaluation standards for measurement systems with noisy and partially observable ground truth.
- Partner with product management, design, and engineering teams to build scalable solutions that support user and business growth.
- Drive projects from initial concept through launch and adoption while making pragmatic trade-offs in incomplete-information environments.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including experience as a tech lead or leading other tech leads on complex enterprise software projects.
- Hands-on experience with advertising platform APIs such as Meta, Google, Amazon, or TikTok, or equivalent experience on the advertiser, agency, or DSP side.
- Working knowledge of advertising technology data models, including campaign hierarchies, attribution windows, conversion APIs, and cross-source deduplication.
- Familiarity with MTA, MMM, incrementality testing, and privacy-preserving aggregation.
- Experience shipping LLM-powered systems to production, including evaluation and guardrails.
- Strong ownership, bias for action, and ability to operate effectively in 0→1 environments.
- Strong collaboration skills across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives.
- Preferred: technical and people leadership experience, such as serving as a TLM.
- Preferred: experience building or operating measurement infrastructure at a platform, measurement vendor, or large advertiser.
- Preferred: background in experimentation or causal inference.
Benefits
- Databricks offers comprehensive benefits and perks, with region-specific details provided separately.
Tech Stack
Databricks
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About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).