Moloco Inc.
Staff Software Engineer - Ad Serving - Moloco Commerce Media
Menlo Park, California, United States · Staff+
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$1,187 more — $221,187 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,187 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Provide technical leadership and guidance for both internal/external engineering teams and cross functional business teams.
- Contribute to the strategic vision of the platform, strongly influencing technical decisions and long-term architecture.
- Explore and prototype next generation features including those enabled by generative AI.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and operate an end-to-end enterprise platform that remains fast, reliable and secure at scale.
- Build and maintain APIs and features for ad serving, while shaping the technical roadmap for the future of the product.
- We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career.
- Lead with Humility: Everyone's voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success.
- Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value.
- We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way.
- We strive to create a more equitable workplace.
- Our interview process is designed to get to know the real you.
- Experience in building platforms for digital advertising or e-commerce applications.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, from requirements gathering and design to implementation and production deployment.
- Experience with cloud-based technologies (e.g., AWS, GCE, GCP, Beam, Spark, BigTable, BigQuery etc.)
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Communication proficiency, capable of elaborating engineering concepts and product features in detail even to non-technical audiences.
Compensation
- For base pay range purposes, location-based compensation is grouped into the following regions.
- Salary Ranges:
- $220,000 - $303,600 USD
- $198,000 - $273,240 USD
- $187,200 - $258,336 USD
Company info
- Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of.
- We help our customers win by delivering durable value. - Go Further Together: We're one team working towards one mission and vision.
- Unless a round specifically includes AI as part of what's being assessed, we ask that candidates engage without AI assistance.
- Experience working directly with customers having varying levels of technical knowledge, and translating their ambiguous requirements into actionable roadmaps and technical solutions.
- Directly engage with customers to identify gaps, translate real world needs into engineering solutions, and deliver outcomes including legacy platform migrations, data connectors, bespoke features, workflows and analytics.
Equal opportunity
- Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging gives us the greatest opportunity to achieve our vision to become the scaling engine for the Internet economy.
- Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression and identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence.
- To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization.
This listing is sourced directly from Moloco Inc.'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.