Senior Software Engineer (Data Analytics / Big Data Engineer )

  • Full-time
  • Department: Development: Emerging Solutions

Company Description

PubMatic (Nasdaq: PUBM) is an independent technology company maximizing customer value by delivering digital advertising’s supply chain of the future.

PubMatic’s sell-side platform empowers the world’s leading digital content creators across the open internet to control access to their inventory and increase monetization by enabling marketers to drive return on investment and reach addressable audiences across ad formats and devices.

Since 2006, our infrastructure-driven approach has allowed for the efficient processing and utilization of data in real time. By delivering scalable and flexible programmatic innovation, we improve outcomes for our customers while championing a vibrant and transparent digital advertising supply chain.

Job Description

Our Advertising technology team is building a holistic advertising platform which will be key to e-commerce company’s ad revenue growth strategy. We will build cutting edge machine learning and optimization algorithms to ingest, model and analyze online and in-store data from e-commerce companies. Importantly, we will build smart systems that deliver relevant retail ads and experiences that connect customers with the brands and products they love and enable advertisers to achieve their product sales goals via campaign activation.

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for developing end-to-end product features for reporting system for advertising platform for e-commerce clients, that would have big data processing and will include the design and development of Analytics components.   

We are looking for self-motivated senior software engineers who enjoy working in dynamic, agile development environments as individual contributors to the team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated problem solver with a strong background in big data tech stack, software design, development, and e-commerce AdTech domain. 

Job Location: US (RWC/NYC) 

Responsibilities:  

  • Build, design and implement our highly scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available big data platform to process terabytes of data and provide customers with in-depth analytics. 

  • Developing Big Data pipelines using modern technology stack such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, HBase, Hive, Presto etc. 

  • Developing analytics application ground up using modern technology stack such as Java, Spring, Tomcat, Jenkins, REST APIs, JDBC, Amazon Web Services, Hibernate. 

  • Building data pipeline to automate high-volume data collection and processing to provide real-time data analytics. 

  • Customize PubMatic’s reporting and analytics platform based on customer’s requirements from customers and deliver scalable, production-ready solutions. 

  • Lead multiple projects to develop features for data processing and reporting platform, collaborate with product managers, cross-functional teams, other stakeholders and ensure successful delivery of projects. 

  • Use various mechanisms established to fetch data from different external data sources and reconcile them with PubMatic’s processed data. 

  • Collaborate with functional teams to build products to deliver end-to-end products and features and fix bugs for better performance. 

  • Develop robust & fault-tolerant systems and monitor implications of changes on data processing pipeline and performance. 

  • Leveraging a broad range of PubMatic’s data architecture strategies and proposing both data flows and storage solutions. 

  • Managing hadoop map reduce and spark jobs & solving any ongoing issues with operating the cluster. 

  • Working closely with cross functional teams on improving availability and scalability of large data platform and functionality of PubMatic software. 

  • Expertise in developing Implementation of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, performing code reviews, committing to Github, preparing documents in Confluence, continuous delivery using Jenkins, automated testing, and operations. 

  • Participate in Agile/Scrum processes such as sprint planning, sprint retrospective, backlog grooming, user story management, work item prioritization, etc. 

  • Frequently discuss with product managers about the software features to include in PubMatic Data Analytics platform. Understand the technical aspects customer requirement from product managers. 

  • Keep in regular touch with quality engineering team which ensure the quality of the platforms/products and performance SLAs of java based micro services and spark-based data pipeline. 

  • Support customer issues over email or JIRA (bug tracking system), provide updates, patches to customers to fix the issues. 

  • Discuss with technical writing team about the technical documents that are published on documentation portal. 

  • Perform code and design reviews for code implemented by peers or as per the code review process. 

Qualifications

  • 3+ years coding experience in Java. 

  • Experience in implementing closed loop reporting for sponsored product listing campaigns for e-commerce companies.  

  • Building analytics pipes for product search relevance modeling and click prediction 

  • Experience in implementing reporting for display/video/native Ad campaigns for e-commerce companies. 

  • Solid computer science fundamentals including data structure and algorithm design, and creation of architectural specifications. 

  • Expertise in developing Implementation of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, documentation, build processes, automated testing, and operations. 

  • A passion for developing and maintaining a high-quality code and test base and enabling contributions from engineers across the team. 

  • Expertise in big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, HBase etc would be an added advantage. 

  • Experience in developing and delivering large-scale big-data pipelines, real-time systems & data warehouses would be preferred. 

  • Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a very innovative and fast paced environment. 

  • Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently. 

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially in technical communications. 

  • Strong interpersonal skills and a desire to work collaboratively. 

Base Compensation Range: $120,000 - $160,000 

In accordance with applicable law, the above salary range provided is PubMatic’s reasonable estimate of the base salary for this role. The actual amount may vary, based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities. In addition to salary PubMatic also offers a bonus, restricted stock units and a competitive benefits package.

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Additional Information

Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the global have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.  All PubMatic employees in the US and India are required to be fully vaccinated to return to our offices.  Covid-19 boosters are not required at this point in time.

Benefits: Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide such as, paid leave programs, paid holidays, healthcare, dental and vision insurance, disability and life insurance, commuter benefits, physical and financial wellness programs, unlimited DTO in the US (that we actually require you to use!), reimbursement for mobile and internet expenses and fully stocked pantries plus in-office catered lunches 3 days per week. 

Diversity and Inclusion: PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don’t just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.