Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Job summary

The Ads Infrastructure team is responsible for building and maintaining the core distributed systems that support a major real-time advertising platform. The focus is on creating resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient systems that facilitate segmentation, optimization, bidding, and analytics at a global scale.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
• Proficient in backend service and infrastructure development programming.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native systems in GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong expertise in distributed infrastructure, including traffic management, load balancing, networking, and large-scale data processing.
• In-depth understanding of networking, observability, and debugging of distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and low-level design of distributed systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Manage and operate infrastructure services alongside engineering teams, including on-call duties and complex issue debugging.
• Assist engineering teams with onboarding and utilizing platform-managed services.
• Enhance operational excellence through improved observability, resiliency, and automation.
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards through design and code reviews.
• Provide strategic advice to leadership regarding platform direction and emerging infrastructure technologies.

Skills

• Expertise in distributed caching or storage systems for large-scale, low-latency workloads is a plus.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes CI/CD tools such as ArgoCD.
• Knowledge of protocols, routing, and service discovery in large-scale environments.
• Domain knowledge in online advertising and adtech systems is advantageous.

Education

• Relevant degree or equivalent experience in a related field is preferred.

Tools

• Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) is essential.