Staff Engineer, Software Engineering (Erlang) - Ad Platform Bidding & Optimizati

Samsung Ads is a leading innovator in advertising technology, dedicated to providing cutting-edge solutions that optimize ad performance and deliver exceptional results for our clients. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced front-end staff engineer to join our dynamic team and help shape the future of the ad tech industry. We seek a talented Staff Engineer to play a pivotal role in enhancing our platform’s performance advertising capabilities. As a Staff Engineer, Software Engineering you will be part of a dynamic team that owns the core ad bidding and optimization for Samsung Ads advertising serving platform. The team handles mission critical modules that have a direct impact on the revenue and customer satisfaction. This team is responsible for managing, growing and optimizing access to our high-quality programmatic ads supply. Our tech stack includes Erlang, Go, and C code with a mixture of OTP, HAProxy, Nginx, ScyllaDB, Kafka and Athena technologies. We are also using Docker and Kubernetes on our AWS stack. Responsibilities ● Create enterprise level distributed server infrastructure for mission-critical operations ● Research and develop algorithms for distributed consensus, replication, consistency, availability and scalability ● Makes difficult design trade-offs and decisions about features, schedule, quality and cost ● Seeks the optimal technology solutions to problems from internal and external options, and applies appropriate methodology to identify issues/concerns ● Primary accountability for major elements of a project, determines all tasks that are required, and is responsible for project outcome ● Designs, develops and/or directs research and tests to validate effect and consequences of designs, process or product enhancements across projects and/or products ● Proactively determines measures and standards of success for project, product, and process quality within project teams ● Participate and follow all team processes and technical standards ● Some travel may be required (up to 10%) Necessary Skills/Attributes ● Typically requires at least 8 years of related experience and a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years. ● 3+ years of experience in programming with Erlang ● Experience in designing and building highly scalable, high throughput distributed systems ● A solid foundation in systems programming, computer science and software engineering ● Can do attitude, take ownership and responsibility of the task and drive things to completion with minimum support ● Collaborative spirit with a willingness to mentor others ● Curious mind that enjoys building things and appreciating the craftsmanship in software ● Hands-on experience working in a multithreaded environment Nice to Have ● Familiar and experienced following Agile methodologies such as Scrum ● Functional programing experience ● Experience mentoring and guiding junior developers ● Previous experience as a lead ● Experience with Code Version tools like Git and collaboration tools like JIRA CALIFORNIA ONLY Compensation for this role is expected to be between $190,000 and $240,000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role. #LI-BL1