Position Summary
Architects at Samsung Ads know their product and architecture like the back of their hands. They relentlessly drive for excellence, focus on important issues, and solve complicated problems. They constantly innovate and make visions a reality, partnering with engineering managers and product managers to execute. They manage constraints and own what is possible. They coordinate amongst multiple sites worldwide and always work towards increased communication and productivity. If this sounds like you, please read on!
POSITION SUMMARY
Over the last few years, Samsung has been investing in building up a portfolio of engaging services across its devices to complement its market-leading hardware business, while leveraging its unparalleled global distribution footprint. These services, coupled with a vast partner network and proprietary data, generate a massive opportunity for ad-based monetization. Five years into this journey, Samsung Ads is a highly successful and fast-growing business. This business and its continued future success depend on the products, technologies, and tools owned by the Global Ads & Data Product & Engineering team. Hundreds of people strong, with a substantial presence in four countries, the Global P&E team is a fast-paced, dynamic and complex organization, operating across a broad spectrum of product and strategic domains.
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Our Architecture team is responsible for defining, refining, and guiding the execution of long, medium, and short-term visions for our systems, as well as for major investments across our product suite. In this role, you'll report directly to our US Site Lead Architect in Mountain View, and you will be a close partner with senior endangering and product leadership.
Our tech stack includes a mixture of Erlang, Go, Java, Scala, JavaScript, Concourse, and Kubernetes running on hybrid bare metalaws cloud mix.
You will enjoy this job if you have a deep innate passion for software engineering, distributed systems, systems architecture, and big data. You will need to demonstrate a wide breadth across multiple engineering disciplines, while also having depth in several key areas. You should have an eye and a knack for some product work (both authoritative and working with product teams in refining and defining their vision). Experience in AdTech is a very strong plus. Enterprise Trading and FinTech experience is also extremely relevant to our domain.
Role and Responsibilities
- Build high throughput/availability, cloud based, distributed platforms
- Quickly prototyping and developing consumer-facing services that will be displayed on millions of devices
- Ability to effectively communicate ideas to peers and distributed teams
- Contributing towards building a system with a test-driven development / Agile approach
- Rapid deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting around the cloud hosted environments
- Working on relevant data pipelines to power the targeting data on the platform.
Necessary Skills / Attributes:
- 10-14 years of professional experience in platform engineering and architecture
- Significant exposure and knowledge of his throughput systems (1M TPS traffic or higher)
- Previous experience rearchitecting a legacy platform from monolithic systems to a distributed microservice environment
- Extensive experience on large-scale multi-tier cloud applications and environments
- Extensive experience with Amazon AWS, and other Amazon cloud offerings
- Experience working in multi-threaded & concurrency-driven environments and an understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of concurrency
- Experienced in Java, Golang, C++ languages
- Experience in Automation and Load Testing Frameworks.
- Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
- Strong knowledge in Computer Science foundations
- BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
Skills and Qualifications
Not-Required but Preferred:
- Experience in backend Ad technologies such as RTB, DSP, and DMP.
- Experience in client Ad technologies such as Google AdSense, Google Mobile Ads SDK.
- Experience using message brokers (such as Kafka, Kinesis)
- Experience using caching technologies (such as Memcached)
- Big Data technologies and languages (Pig, Hive, Spark, Hadoop)
The qualified candidate will possess the following:
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Consider yourself a curious, high-level thinker
- Passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well
- Experience with the Agile Methodology
- Module / feature ownership
CALIFORNIA ONLY
Compensation for this role is expected to be between $210,000 and $240,000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role.
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