StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
The Stats and Analytics team at StackAdapt solves complex distributed system challenges, focusing on scalability, performance, reliability, and data consistency. We leverage a modern tech stack that includes Golang for high-performance services, TiDB for scalable SQL databases, Redshift and Snowflake for data warehousing, Kafka for real-time streaming, Elasticsearch for analytics, and HDFS for distributed storage. The Stats & Analytics team is structured into three sub teams: Data Ingestion, Data Platform and Data Delivery.
About the Data Ingestion Team:
This team builds and operates the critical infrastructure that serves as the “front door” of StackAdapt’s event flow. We work on large-scale distributed systems focused on scalability, performance, reliability, and data correctness, processing 10+ billion events per day. Our systems power core functions across bidding, reporting, billing, analytics, and machine learning. We design and run low-latency, highly reliable ingestion systems for impressions, clicks, conversions, and third-party signals, ensuring data is accurate and available for downstream teams in real time.
About the Data Platform Team:
This team is responsible for building and operating the infrastructure that powers data at scale across StackAdapt. Our systems process terabytes of data daily, serving both real-time and batch use cases. The data platform ensures that data is fresh, accurate, and cost-efficient so that analytics, machine learning, and product teams can rely on trustworthy, governed datasets.
What You'll Be Doing:- Building highly scalable, distributed real-time micro-services primarily written in Go
- Working with large data sets and various databases including Aerospike, Elasticsearch, Redis, ScyllaDB, Redshift, TiDB, MariaDB
- Working with data lakehouse technologies like Apache Iceberg, Apache Trino, and real-time analytics technologies like StarRocks and Clickhouse
- Build software that utilize messaging queues such as Kafka, SQS, and Kinesis
- Write performance efficient and memory optimized code
- 2+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer.
- Very strong problem solving skills in data structures, algorithms, and optimization
- Experience working with relational databases and/or key-value stores
- Experience building scalable micro-services and distributed systems
- 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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