Senior Staff Engineer
TripleLift2 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve high-throughput services for bidding logic, auction mechanics, traffic shaping, and creative/image processing.
- Write maintainable, tested code and operate production services with meaningful metrics, traces, alerts, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Use and evaluate AI coding assistants while applying engineering judgment to validate production code.
- Research AI/ML-driven optimizations and agentic capabilities and translate promising ideas into production systems.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, data science, and platform teams across New York City and Zurich on architecture, code review, observability, and incident response.
- Lead cross-team and cross-region technical initiatives, write design documents, drive architectural consensus, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend services operating at scale.
- Demonstrated experience building high-performance Java APIs and services handling large volumes of network traffic under strict latency requirements.
- Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, caching, backpressure, fault tolerance, observability, event-driven non-blocking JVM frameworks, and JVM performance tuning.
- Experience with in-memory key-value stores, messaging systems, NoSQL and specialized low-latency key-value stores at high QPS, and services deployed across multiple AWS regions or comparable cloud environments.
- Working fluency with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or comparable AI coding assistants.
- Experience with Apache Spark, Snowflake, and Redpanda, plus familiarity with OpenRTB, VAST, or related advertising protocols.
- Track record of leading cross-team or cross-region technical initiatives, writing design documents, and driving architectural decisions to consensus.
- Strong communication, collaboration, organization, problem-solving, adaptability, ownership, and continuous-learning skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans are available to eligible employees.
- Flexible paid time off is available.
- 401(k) plan with employer match is available.
- Full-time employees are eligible for comprehensive benefits subject to applicable plans and policies.
- The position is based across TripleLift’s New York City and Zurich engineering teams; no specific remote or office schedule is stated.
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About TripleLift
TripleLift is a creative supply-side platform that supports programmatic advertising across online video, connected TV, display, and native formats for publishers, advertisers, and agencies. It provides a marketplace and ad-tech tools to monetize inventory and execute media buying, earning transaction-based fees. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, the company is owned by Vista Equity Partners and handles over 1 trillion ad transactions each month.