[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Data Delivery
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. As a Staff Software Engineer I on Data Delivery, you will lead complex technical initiatives across backend systems, focusing on measurement and planning to help build reliable customer-facing insights.
Responsibilities
- Domain ownership: Act as a project and domain DRI for measurement and planning initiatives within Data Delivery
- Technical planning: Translate product requirements into technical requirements, clarify feasibility and trade-offs, shape milestones, and identify risks early
- Execution leadership: Keep complex initiatives moving by unblocking decisions, coordinating across teams, and giving engineering leadership clear options and recommendations
- Scalable data systems: Build reliable systems that process, organize, and serve large volumes of campaign and marketing data across StackAdapt
- Customer-facing impact: Power reporting, measurement, planning, billing, pacing, exports, APIs, and analytics that customers and internal teams depend on
- System design: Make thoughtful technical decisions that balance correctness, reliability, latency, freshness, cost, and long-term maintainability
- Cross-functional partnership: Work closely with product, engineering, data science, analytics, and business teams to turn product goals into strong technical solutions
- Operational excellence: Improve monitoring, testing, data quality, incident response, and documentation so our systems are easier to trust and operate
- Technical mentorship: Support engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and clear communication of trade-offs
Skills
- Strong experience building scalable services, distributed systems, data platforms, or data-intensive applications
- Experience leading complex technical projects with ambiguous requirements, multiple stakeholders, and meaningful trade-offs
- Strong judgment across APIs, data pipelines, databases, distributed systems, observability, reliability, and operational ownership
- Ability to reason about correctness, freshness, completeness, consistency, cost efficiency, and customer trust
- Interest in building systems that support customer-facing reporting, measurement, planning, optimization, and analytics
- Ability to explain decisions clearly, align stakeholders, and document important trade-offs
- Experience helping other engineers grow and raising the technical bar of a team
- Experience with Golang and technologies such as Kafka, TiDB, Redshift, Vitess, Iceberg, StarRocks, or Trino is a plus
- Experience in adtech, marketing technology, reporting, analytics, billing, attribution, planning, or high-volume event processing is a plus
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
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