Feature Ownership: Lead the design and implementation of complex features within our Go-based ad-serving stack, optimized for high throughput.
Systems Optimization: Use pprof and tracer to eliminate bottlenecks; tune memory allocation and goroutine usage to meet aggressive p99 latency targets.
Protocol Mastery: Maintain high-speed support for OpenRTB and VAST protocols, focusing on efficient request parsing and validation.
Stream Processing: Integrate services with Kafka pipelines and with low-latency data stores to support real-time decisioning.
Platform Partnership: Work closely with Platform Engineers to ensure application behavior aligns with infrastructure capabilities, specifically around auto-scaling triggers, networking, and deep observability.
Defensive Engineering: Implement reliability patterns (circuit breakers, retries, graceful degradation) to maintain uptime during traffic surges.
Production Ownership: Take end-to-end responsibility for services, from initial design through deployment to Kubernetes (EKS) and production monitoring.
Architectural Rigor: Lead design reviews, providing critical feedback on system architecture, data modeling, and API design.
Mentorship: Grow the team through thoughtful code reviews and informal sessions on Go best practices and distributed systems.

Requirements

Go Expertise: 5+ years of professional experience building high-scale services in Go, with a deep understanding of internals (GC, scheduling, and memory management).
High-Scale Systems: Proven track record of operating distributed systems handling 100k+ RPS.
Concurrency: Mastery of goroutines, channels, and synchronization primitives.
Domain Context: Experience with OpenRTB, VAST, or similar programmatic advertising technologies preferred.
Infrastructure: Practical experience running and debugging services in Kubernetes and AWS environments
Mindset: A pragmatic architect who values simple, effective solutions over over-engineered abstractions.

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

GopproftracerKafkaKubernetesEKScircuit breakersretriesgraceful degradationAPI design

Soft Skills

leadershipmentorshipcritical feedbackpragmatic mindsetcode reviews