PubMatic

Senior Performance Advertising Engineer

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2 months ago

Responsibilities

  • Develop, benchmark, deploy, and optimize real-time bidding algorithms, pacing controls, and predictive models to maximize ROAS and conversion tracking.
  • Design, evaluate, and implement scalable low-latency streaming and batch pipelines for conversion and multi-touch attribution data.
  • Build attribution and identity solutions across mobile, CTV, video, and desktop environments, including privacy-constrained and cross-device systems.
  • Audit data ingestion systems for data loss, architectural flaws, and latency that could affect attribution accuracy and campaign performance.
  • Write high-performance, memory-efficient code for an ultra-scaled backend processing trillions of monthly events.
  • Own the technical architecture and end-to-end evaluation, implementation, and scaling of performance advertising systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree, or equivalent practical experience, in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or another analytically grounded quantitative field.
  • At least 5 years of software engineering experience focused on performance advertising, programmatic bidding, or large-scale user-conversion optimization loops.
  • Production experience evaluating and implementing multi-touch attribution, last-touch attribution, or incrementality testing frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience building terabyte-to-petabyte-scale data pipelines with distributed frameworks and cloud data warehouses.
  • Technical familiarity with mobile attribution and privacy specifications, CTV standards, and desktop identity environments.
  • Preferred: understanding of OpenRTB, DSP/SSP mechanics, and supply-path optimization.
  • Preferred: experience deploying production-grade machine learning frameworks for CTR/CVR prediction.
  • Preferred: system-level performance benchmarking experience, including memory-allocation profiling and I/O bottleneck reduction.

Benefits

  • Remote or hybrid work from Redwood City or NYC.
  • Paid leave programs and paid holidays.
  • Healthcare, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
  • Commuter benefits and physical and financial wellness programs.
  • Unlimited DTO in the US, which employees are required to use.
  • Mobile reimbursement, stocked pantries, and catered in-office lunches five days per week.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkC++GoGoogle BigQueryJavaPythonSnowflake

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About PubMatic

1,001-5,000 employees

PubMatic builds a sell-side programmatic advertising platform that helps digital publishers and commerce media networks monetize display, mobile, video, and in‑app inventory by connecting them with DSPs and buyers. Its business model centers on fees from real-time ad auctions and related services, including RTB, yield optimization, and AI-driven decisioning. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and is listed on NASDAQ under the ticker PUBM.

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