4 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end features across frontend interfaces, backend services and APIs, data models, and production infrastructure.
- Write and maintain analytical SQL over large-scale TV viewership datasets in BigQuery.
- Design and operate data pipelines and caching layers between raw data and product surfaces.
- Maintain authentication and authorization across Firebase, Auth0, and Firestore security rules.
- Manage integrations across GCP services and AWS, including BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Firestore, Cloud Storage, and S3.
- Instrument systems for testing, observability, and reliability, and own their behavior in production.
- Participate in architecture reviews, contribute to the technical roadmap, and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of experience building and operating production software.
- Strong command of TypeScript or JavaScript across frontend and backend systems.
- Experience building backend services and APIs, including authentication patterns and token-based authentication flows.
- Ability to write non-trivial SQL using window functions, aggregations, and query optimization techniques.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, including serverless or managed compute, object storage, secret management, and scheduled jobs.
- Familiarity with eventual consistency and cache invalidation patterns in distributed systems.
- Proficiency in agentic development, including building or integrating LLM-powered workflows, tool-use patterns, or AI agents in production.
- Ability to navigate unfamiliar production codebases, distinguish live from legacy paths, and make safe changes.
- Experience with React and modern frontend architecture patterns is preferred.
- Firebase, GCP, AWS, ad tech, audience measurement, CTV/OTT, and ad measurement experience are preferred.
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About Samba
Samba builds a media intelligence and advertising platform that uses TV ACR data and cross‑platform signals to power audience measurement, targeting, and optimization for brands, agencies, and media companies. Its products support Connected TV, OTT, and digital campaigns with deterministic ad detection and addressable TV capabilities. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company sells data and analytics services to help marketers plan, activate, and measure campaigns across screens.