Developing traffic-shaping technology to prioritize the highest-value ad requests at scale for Magnite
Requirements
- 4+ years of software development experience, and a BS/MS Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Experience in designing and implementing high-quality applications, preferably with Scala and Spark
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and other CNCF projects like Prometheus, Argo, helm, etc.
- Ability to engage in critical and creative thinking
- Openness to working with the functional programming (FP) paradigm
Responsibilities
- Develop large-scale distributed systems and solve deep technical and mathematical challenges
- Solve for large-scale data analysis
- Solve problems involving complex mathematical algorithms to optimise traffic consumption
- Develop high-performance software and write optimised, low-latency software that routes high volumes of ad request traffic and targets p99 latencies <= 20ms while maximising throughput
- Cost optimisation: improving profit margins by lowering the infrastructure cost basis to optimise traffic
Other
- BS/MS Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Desire for ownership and willingness to join the On-Call rotation for our applications
- Hunger to learn while working with a sense of urgency
