Rokt
Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)
Rokt, New York, New York, United States, 10001
Staff Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)
Target total compensation of $300,000 - $515,000, including a fixed annual salary of $200,000 - $315,000, an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits. Equity grants are issued in good faith, subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility. We are looking for a software engineer with deep experience in distributed systems to join our team in New York City. You will architect, build, and scale backend services that power critical systems across Rokt's ecommerce platform. You'll work on systems that demand low latency, high throughput, and rock-solid reliabilitywhile leveraging AI tools to accelerate development, improve resilience, and increase autonomy. As an engineer, you will drive projects from design through delivery, mentoring others and contributing to our engineering best practices. You'll partner cross-functionally with Product, ML, and SRE to ensure performance and scalability as Rokt continues to scale globally. What You'll Do Design and implement distributed systems and backend APIs that scale to billions of transactions per year. Own architectural decisions and contribute to system design reviews and incident root cause analyses. Drive performance optimizations and refactors to improve system reliability, latency, and cost. Leverage AI/ML frameworks and tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Datadog AI, etc.) to speed up delivery and reduce toil. Mentor junior engineers and set technical direction for the team on scalability and observability best practices. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering delivery with business objectives.
Target total compensation of $300,000 - $515,000, including a fixed annual salary of $200,000 - $315,000, an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits. Equity grants are issued in good faith, subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility. We are looking for a software engineer with deep experience in distributed systems to join our team in New York City. You will architect, build, and scale backend services that power critical systems across Rokt's ecommerce platform. You'll work on systems that demand low latency, high throughput, and rock-solid reliabilitywhile leveraging AI tools to accelerate development, improve resilience, and increase autonomy. As an engineer, you will drive projects from design through delivery, mentoring others and contributing to our engineering best practices. You'll partner cross-functionally with Product, ML, and SRE to ensure performance and scalability as Rokt continues to scale globally. What You'll Do Design and implement distributed systems and backend APIs that scale to billions of transactions per year. Own architectural decisions and contribute to system design reviews and incident root cause analyses. Drive performance optimizations and refactors to improve system reliability, latency, and cost. Leverage AI/ML frameworks and tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Datadog AI, etc.) to speed up delivery and reduce toil. Mentor junior engineers and set technical direction for the team on scalability and observability best practices. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering delivery with business objectives.