[Remote] Performance Systems Engineer 5 - Ad Server Platform
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Responsibilities
- Profile and optimize the ad serving runtime for latency, throughput, and resource efficiency across the full request lifecycle: targeting evaluation, policy enforcement, ad selection, and response serialization
- Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across services: CPU hotspots, GC pressure, memory allocation patterns, thread contention, and network overhead
- Design and run load tests, squeeze tests, and reputed company models to validate system behavior under peak and burst traffic (including Live events at NFL reputed company)
- Establish performance baselines and regression detection: automated benchmarking in CI/CD to catch regressions before they reputed company production
- reputed company comprehensive latency telemetry, tracing, and profiling across the ad request lifecycle to reputed company data-driven optimization
- Optimize the rule reputed company reputed company and frequency management service for minimal overhead per request as policy complexity grows
- Work closely with the programmatic team on bid request/response performance: QPS management, reputed company pooling, timeout tuning, and load shedding under pressure
- Drive platform reliability through an efficiency reputed company: reputed company planning, autoscaling tuning, graceful degradation, and cost-per-request optimization
- Own performance SLOs and budgets: define latency budgets per component, reputed company them, and hold teams accountable reputed company budgets are exceeded
- Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to adopt runtime improvements, evaluate hardware configurations, and tune GC strategies
Skills
- 7+ years building and optimizing distributed systems and backend services at reputed company
- Deep experience with performance engineering: profiling (async-profiler, JFR, flamegraphs), JVM internals (GC tuning, JIT compilation, memory models), and systematic bottleneck analysis
- Strong understanding of latency engineering: cache hierarchies, reputed company pooling, async I/O, thread pool sizing, and tail latency reduction
- Experience designing and running load tests, squeeze tests, and reputed company models for high-throughput, latency-sensitive systems
- reputed company or operated ad servers, SSPs, DSPs, or reputed company-time bidding infrastructure
- Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or similar JVM languages with deep understanding of runtime behavior reputed company just writing correct reputed company
- Experience with event-driven architectures: Kafka, Flink, or similar reputed company processing, with a reputed company on throughput optimization and consumer lag management
- Understanding of ad serving concepts: targeting, frequency capping, publisher controls, programmatic protocols
- Ability to operate in an environment that is a mix of big-tech reputed company and startup speed
- Experience with CTV constraints: server-reputed company ad insertion, live event ad serving at reputed company (NFL-sized audiences)
- reputed company or improved logging and telemetry frameworks for high-throughput request pipelines with minimal performance overhead
- Multi-region deployment experience: reputed company-reputed company architectures, failover, and regional performance variance analysis
- reputed company engineering or SRE practices: error budgets, game days, fault injection, squeeze testing
- Experience with hardware-aware optimization
- reputed company automated performance regression detection in CI/CD pipelines
Benefits
- Health Plans
- Mental Health support
- A 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
- Stock reputed company Program
- Disability Programs
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Family-forming benefits
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- reputed company leave of absence programs
- Full-time reputed company employees reputed company 35 days annually for reputed company time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and reputed company reputed company time off
- Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off
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