🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll join the Data Ingestion Team building the critical infrastructure that serves as the "front door" of StackAdapt's event flow, processing over 10 billion events per day. You'll own technical direction for critical parts of the ingestion platform and lead large-scale initiatives that directly shape data quality, system reliability, and innovation speed across the company.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Own and lead large technical initiatives end-to-end from design to production
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the team
• Design, build, and operate highly scalable distributed ingestion services
• Build and maintain event ingestion pipelines using streaming technologies like Kafka

📋 Requirements

• Extensive experience building distributed systems and high-throughput backend services
• Proven ability to lead technical direction and drive large, cross-team initiatives
• Hands-on experience with streaming systems (Kafka or similar)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs (consistency, availability, partition tolerance, scalability)

✨ Nice to Have

• Familiarity with AdTech or event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with analytics systems

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Highly competitive salary
• 🏖️ Competitive Paid time off including birthdays off
• 🧠 Comprehensive mental health care program
• 🏥 Health benefits from day one
• 👶 Awesome parental leave program

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Call· 30 min
2. 2Technical Interview· 60 min
3. 3System Design Interview· 60 min
4. 4Hiring Manager Interview· 45 min