About Moloco:

Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations of all sizes to grow and unlock the full value of their unique first-party data, elevating the traditional path to performance advertising. While the largest technology companies have proven the speed and scale of ad-targeting utilizing data— the same robust performance powered by machine learning has previously been unavailable beyond their platforms.

That's where Moloco steps in. With Moloco's powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, we play a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy, all while allowing companies to stay independent and scale.

An industry leader at the nexus of machine learning, performance marketing, and visionary product infrastructure, Moloco is advancing the advertising technology industry. We ranked in the top 10% in the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2023. Recognized as one of 46 leading Cloud Computing companies, receiving the Stratus Award for 2023. In 2023, we received Google’s Cloud DevOps Dreamers Award, a recognition given to companies that are implementing DevOps practices to drive organizational success and high performance. Lastly, Moloco is a 2024 certified Great Place to Work! Check us out on Glassdoor and be sure to get an inside look at working at Moloco on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Gurgaon, and Tokyo.

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 to how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging will allow us the greatest opportunity to carry out our mission -- to empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

About the role

Moloco is looking for a talented Backend Software Engineer to join the Reliable Infrastructure team. The team's mission is to maintain business continuity of the cloud infrastructure platform for Moloco's DSP (Demand Side Platform) business by achieving infrastructure reliability and availability. As part of the team, you will have the opportunity to build back-end infrastructure software solutions to improve reliability, observability, and availability of DSP infrastructure and improve their operational speed and quality. As a member of the team, you will lead the team in defining and implementing the right reliability solutions that best meet the needs of the DSP engineering teams.

Our core ML serving infrastructure handles over 5 million requests per second, which is about 80 times the traffic of Google search. Our data processing platforms ingest over 10 petabytes of data per day. These massive workloads present us with unique and challenging reliability, availability, scalability, and operational issues. As a member of the DSP Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to solve these huge challenges with the engineers who built the platform and the latest technologies.

What you'll do

Define reliability solutions that best meet the needs of DSP engineering teams
Align reliability solution development strategies with DSP engineering teams
Help define the roadmap for reliability solutions
Design & implement reliability backend services
Design & implement service release pipelines
Proactively identify opportunities to improve DSP reliability, continuously find the risks, and create solutions to mitigate them
Establish and evangelize the highest level of operational excellence by supporting internal reliability solution onboarding

What you'll need to succeed

Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field
Backend software development experience involving API design and implementation
Good communication skills to collaborate with different teams to build successful solutions
Tech lead experience
Experience with cloud service providers such as GCP, AWS or Azure. (GCP preferred)
Software development skills in one or more programming languages.
Excellent problem-solving skills with hands-on ability
Experience working with real-time systems and highly scalable software architectures.
Experience working closely with SRE, Production Engineering, or Reliability functions as a software engineer

Our Compensation And Benefits (for United States Residents Only)

In accordance with various state laws, the range provided is a reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. We also offer a competitive benefits package.

Base Compensation Range:

$179,340—$249,010 USD

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of Inclusion, we offer innovative benefits which empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives. For an overview of our global benefits, click here.

Moloco Values:

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.
Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
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.
Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. 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. We won’t let each other fail.

Additional Resources:

Equal Opportunity:

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we 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 gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Staff Backend Software Engineer - Reliable Infrastructure