Staff Engineer, Data Engineering

Madhive is the leading tech company engineered for modern TV advertising. Advertisers seamlessly customize and automate the OTT buying process into an operating system with our self-service platform. Powered by our industry-leading bidder and device graph that processes 260 billion available ad opportunities per day, we deliver precise, brand-safe, audience connections efficiently at scale.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. The successful candidate will improve the reliability and stability of our data pipelines and systems and drive architectural improvements. You will lead as we develop best practices and create stability and operational efficiency for our increasingly complex data and database systems.

In this role, you will be a pivotal figure in shaping our technical strategy and execution. Collaboration with our product team and other technology leaders will be central to your responsibilities.

What you’ll do:

• Driving design and architecture discussions and building alignment on complex technical decisions.

• Designing, coding, testing, and releasing high-quality software for feature specs and architectural improvements. Running and measuring live experiments to vet hypotheses.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs and design solutions that meet business requirements.

• Apply your engineering expertise to solve large-scale business problems.

• Performing design and code reviews to ensure quality and scalability.

• Lead the design of data governance policies and procedures.

• Supporting on-call assignments and operational management.

• Mentoring junior engineers, supporting hiring and evaluation of candidates.

• Writing technical documents to influence decisions at the executive level.

Who you are:

• 5+ years experience working with big data systems that can process and transform data at petabytes scale. 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Familiar with messaging systems, batch processing, serverless, and streaming technologies. 

• Understanding of both OLTP and OLAP database systems.

• Handling database design and considerations for data at scale for transaction management, reporting, and analytics.

• You enjoy designing and implementing critical parts of complex systems, utilizing best-of-breed algorithms, design patterns, and system design skills.

• Handling operational aspects of large-scale systems focusing on observability, tech debt management, code refactoring, and robust software development and release processes.

• Articulating technically complex topics in an easy-to-understand way via written and verbal communication methods.

• Our stack runs entirely on GCP. Our engineers are language agnostic, but core technologies for our backend include Golang, gRPC, BigQuery, Postgres, Airflow, Bigtable, Docker, Spanner, Firebase, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

We are Madhive

We empower our clients to create enduring relationships with consumers through maximum-fidelity, TV-first technology that elevates media, embodies relentless innovation, and ensures unrivaled revenue acceleration.

Madhive is a dynamic, diverse, innovative, and friendly place to work. We embrace our differences and believe they fuel our creativity. We come from varied backgrounds and think that’s important. Whether it’s taking ideas from previous lives and applying them in different ways or creating something completely new, we are all trail-blazing team players who think big and want to make an impact. 

We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and collaboration. We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Please be advised that we will NOT be using third-party recruiting agencies for this search.