Samba

Principal Engineer, Architecture — Audiences & Measurement

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29 days ago

Base Salary

$230k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set architectural direction and technical standards across audience and measurement systems.
  • Lead system design for high-impact, cross-team initiatives while balancing delivery and long-term platform health.
  • Drive architectural convergence between audience/segment and measurement systems.
  • Define the technical approach to data clean room integrations.
  • Advise engineering leadership on complex design, code quality, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor senior and staff-level engineers and align teams across adjacent parts of the stack.
  • Identify and reduce technical debt, scalability bottlenecks, and single points of failure.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience architecting large-scale, data-intensive systems such as streaming or batch pipelines, distributed data stores, or audience and measurement platforms.
  • Track record of technical leadership at scale without direct reports, using influence and design rigor to drive alignment.
  • Strong system design fundamentals, including data modeling, distributed systems tradeoffs, scalability, and reliability patterns.
  • Strong cross-functional communication and experience partnering with product, data science, and multiple engineering teams.
  • Ability to operate with significant ambiguity and define technical direction.
  • Ad tech or adjacent industry experience.
  • Experience with data clean rooms.
  • Experience working across multiple time zones or with globally distributed engineering teams.

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