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Senior Staff Engineer

TripleLift · New York, New York, United States · On-site

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About TripleLift

TripleLift builds technology to make ads that empower rather than interrupt. Leveraging pioneering computer vision technology, TripleLift creates ads that blend in with the user experience as people consume content within television, walled gardens, and the... Backed by Edison Partners.

About the role

The Senior Staff Engineer plays a critical role in driving the performance, scalability, and intelligence of TripleLift’s Exchange — the real-time bidding platform that processes over a trillion ad transactions per month and sits at the heart of TripleLift. In this role, you will partner closely with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and platform teams across our entire ecosystem to design, build, and operate the core RTB services that decide which ads run, where, and at what price.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend services running in production at scale
  • Demonstrated experience building high-performance APIs and services in Java
  • Track record of working on large-scale, network-heavy systems handling billions of HTTP requests per day under strict latency requirements
  • Familiarity with in-memory key-value stores (e.g., Memcache, Redis) and messaging systems (e.g., Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ)
  • Solid grasp of distributed systems design patterns and their trade-offs, including concurrency, caching, backpressure, fault tolerance, and observability
More about this role

We're TripleLift, an advertising platform on a mission to elevate digital advertising through beautiful creative, quality publishers, actionable data and smart targeting. Through over 1 trillion monthly ad transactions, we help publishers and platforms monetize their businesses. Our technology is where the world's leading brands find audiences across online video, connected television, display and native ads. Brand and enterprise customers choose us because of our innovative solutions, premium formats, and supportive experts dedicated to maximizing their performance.

As part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio, we are NMSDC certified, qualify for diverse spending goals and are committed to economic inclusion. Find out how TripleLift raises up the programmatic ecosystem at triplelift.com .

The Senior Staff Engineer plays a critical role in driving the performance, scalability, and intelligence of TripleLift’s Exchange — the real-time bidding platform that processes over a trillion ad transactions per month and sits at the heart of TripleLift. In this role, you will partner closely with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and platform teams across our entire ecosystem...

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