[Remote] Staff II Software Engineer, Data Ingestion
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. They are seeking a Staff II Software Engineer for their Data Ingestion Team to lead technical initiatives and improve the infrastructure that handles high-volume event processing and data flows across the company.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead large technical initiatives end-to-end, from design through production and monitoring
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the team
- Design, build, and operate highly scalable, distributed ingestion services for real-time and near-real-time scenarios
- Contribute hands-on as needed while enabling the team to execute effectively
- Build and maintain event ingestion pipelines using streaming technologies like Kafka
- Work with high-volume storage systems and databases to persist and serve data efficiently
- Partner with Data, ML, Product, and Platform teams to support evolving requirements
- Improve code quality, testing practices, system reliability, and observability
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions
- Balance and prioritize projects to maximize impact and align with company objectives
Skills
- Extensive experience building distributed systems and high-throughput backend services
- Proven ability to lead technical direction and drive large, cross-team initiatives
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with comfort working in ambiguous, complex domains
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across teams
- Ability to think strategically, lead technically, and drive high-impact, scalable solutions
- Hands-on experience with streaming systems (Kafka or similar)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs (consistency, availability, partition tolerance, scalability)
- Maintains an AI-forward approach to software engineering - leveraging AI to boost productivity, collaboration, and business automation
- Familiarity with AdTech, event-driven architectures, or analytics systems
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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