# Principal Engineer, Ads Platform at Fetch Rewards

- Company: Fetch Rewards
- What the company does: Turn your everyday receipts into gift cards with Fetch. Earn points on groceries, shopping, and games — then redeem for free gift cards. Get started free. Backed by Gaingels.
- Company website: https://fetchrewards.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/fetch/am9icG9zdDo2Xod1_0La20Psqbgh7zXP?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fetch-rewards-principal-engineer-ads-platform/

## About the role

Fetch is building the next generation of systems that power personalized advertising experiences for millions of users, and we're looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to help define the architecture behind them. You will design, scale, and evolve the high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems that sit on the critical path of Fetch's advertising platform. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Significant experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed backend systems in production, with demanding throughput, latency, availability, and reliability requirements
- Deep understanding of distributed systems: partitioning, replication, consistency models, caching, concurrency, asynchronous processing, failure modes, and coordination
- Experience diagnosing and solving performance and scaling problems across applications, databases, caches, queues, networks, and infrastructure
- Strong expertise with service-oriented or microservice architectures, APIs, event-driven systems, and high-volume data processing
- Demonstrated experience making architectural tradeoffs across relational and non-relational databases, streaming platforms, caching technologies, and other distributed storage
- Strong operational experience with production systems: observability, SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, load testing, and reliability engineering


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fetch-rewards-principal-engineer-ads-platform/