PubMatic

PubMatic

Principal Software Engineer - PubMatic AgenticOS (Buy Side Bidding Platform)

Redwood City, US · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$229kDetected 7 days ago
GoDistributed SystemsData StructuresAlgorithmsSQLPostgreSQLBigQuerySnowflakeAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesKafkaMachine LearningSparkData EngineeringData ScienceForecastingSignal ProcessingCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • This role is ideal for someone with deep expertise in Golang, real-time bidding systems, and campaign pacing and optimization algorithms, with strong exposure to DSP / performance advertising domains.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, and build high-throughput, ultra-low-latency real-time bidding systems for buy-side advertising platforms.
  • Lead development of bidder services handling millions of QPS with strict latency and reliability SLAs using Golang/C/C++.
  • Design and implement campaign pacing, budget management, and delivery optimization algorithms across multiple objectives (CPA, ROAS, CTR, CVR).
  • Own core systems for deal execution, auction participation, bid shading, and supply path optimization.
  • Build and evolve real-time and near-real-time data pipelines for impressions, clicks, conversions, and attribution using Kafka, Flink, or Spark.
  • Collaborate closely with ML engineers to productionize models such as bid optimization, contextual bandits, reach forecasting, and incrementality models.
  • Integrate and maintain support for programmatic advertising protocols (OpenRTB, VAST, CTV-specific standards).
  • Drive architectural decisions around scalability, fault tolerance, data consistency, and latency optimization.
  • Mentor engineers, set coding and design standards, and lead technical reviews across teams.

Requirements

  • Should have a bachelor's degree in engineering (CS / IT) or equivalent degree from well-known Institutes / Universities.
  • Additional Information
  • Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the globe 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.

Compensation

  • In accordance with applicable law, the below salary rang e provided is PubMatic's reasonable estimate of the total compensation for this role.
  • New hires and current team members are typically compensated toward the middle of our pay range.
  • In addition to salary PubMatic also offers a bonus, restricted stock units, and a competitive benefits package.
  • Total Compensation Range
  • $200,000 - $228,750 USD

Benefits

  • We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
  • In addition to salary PubMatic also offers a bonus, restricted stock units, and a competitive benefits package.

Equal opportunity

  • PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don't just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it.
  • About PubMatic
  • PubMatic is one of the world's leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.
  • Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.
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