Desired Skills and Experience

  • Take full ownership of a service, and its production operation in a highly complex and globally distributed system scalable to handle tens of billions of real-time transactions per day
  • Be able to understand high level and complex business requirements and turn these into effective designs and implementation
  • Be part of the leadership team, forming strategy and future direction of the real-time bidding infrastructure
  • Be a thought leader in the area of improvement of development and production operation processes
  • Innovate with new designs and optimizations to enhance the performance of existing infrastructure
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
  • Passionate about engineering excellence, good practices and continuous improvement thereof
  • Expert in Java or C++ and at least one of the major scripting languages (e.g. Ruby, Python, shell)
  • Expert understanding of networking protocols (HTTP, TCP/UDP/IP, etc.)
  • Proficiency and high level of insight into Linux OS and running software systems on Linux