Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Hybrid Schedule (M/F remote, T/W/TH in-office)

At Magnite, we cultivate an environment of continuous growth and collaboration. Our work impacts what millions of people read, watch, and buy, and we’re looking for people to help us tackle that responsibility with creativity and focus.  Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI) is the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV / streaming, online video, display, and audio. Our tech fuels billions of transactions per day!

We are looking for a senior backend engineer who loves tackling high volume data ingestion and tuning ultra-low-latency services. If you thrive in a collaborative, high-ownership environment and want to shape the future of audience targeting at scale, we’d love to meet you.

Our team builds Magnite’s data-management-platform (DMP) and audience-targeting solutions. We:

• Operate terabyte-scale data pipelines that aggregate billions of records every day
• Stream, ingest and asynchronously process 50 million+ events every day
• Run sub-20 ms, high-QPS microservices in production
• Web scrape & content classify almost the whole of internet
• Solve problems with a polyglot approach — Java, Go, PySpark, and the right tool for the job

In this role you will: 

• Design & build streaming-ingestion pipelines and asynchronous workers that aggregate events with Kafka
• Design & build APIs for internal and external customers
• Create high-QPS, low-latency microservices that power real-time audience targeting
• Own service life-cycle end-to-end design, coding, code-review, CI/CD, observability
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Ops, Data Science, and Product to turn ideas into production systems
• Work collaboratively with multiple teams to deliver quality software
• Support operation of services in production
• Perform design and code reviews

We’re looking for someone with:

• 4+ years of working as a software engineer
• Strong computer-science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis)
• Proficiency in Java and/or Go – with a willingness to work in both
• Proficiency in using Relational & Document storage, and caching systems
• Passion for learning new languages and technologies quickly
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• The ability to demonstrable experience in mentoring engineers
• A visible passion for developing software, creating solutions, and growing people

Our current tech stack:

• Golang, Java
• ECS, Fargate, Docker, ALB, HAProxy
• RDS, MariaDB, DocumentDB, Postgres, ScyllaDB
• Redis, Memcache
• Kafka, SNS, SQS
• Terraform, Github Actions, Jenkins

Comprehensive Perks and Benefits: 

• Holiday Breaks and Quarterly Wellness Days
• Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Family-Focused Benefits and Parental Leave 
• Private Medical Insurance
• Competitive Pension Plan
• Disability and Life Insurance
• Mobile Phone Subsidy
• Fitness and Wellness Reimbursement

Company Culture: 

We believe collaboration is essential to success. Magnite’s hybrid schedule includes two days worked remotely (Monday and Friday) and three days on-site (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Our offices provide lunches, beverages, snacks, training and development, and office events to support your work week.  We also understand you have appointments, families, hobbies, and other commitments. Magnite strives to maintain a healthy work/life integration for all employees so you can bring your best every day - both at work and at home.

Magnite Invests in You: 

• Career Development Initiatives and a Career Growth Framework
• Culture and Inclusion Programs
• Bonusly Peer-to-Peer Recognition Program
• Community Service and Volunteer Events
• Company-Matched Charitable Contributions
• Mental Health Support

About Us

The world's leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. Anchored in bustling New York City, sunny Los Angeles, mile high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.

Our Commitment: We aim to incorporate a wide range of voices into our Magnite culture, cultivating an environment where employees feel welcomed, cared for, and encouraged to freely share ideas. We are committed to employee growth, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. We invest in Magnite’s local communities. We seek talent from all backgrounds to champion corporate values of seeing the big picture and being catalysts of change.

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