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Software Engineer, Ads Platform

NewsBreak · Mountain View, California, United States

Posted 7 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
7 days
NewsBreak's roles stay open a median of 44 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
15% of NewsBreak's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at NewsBreak
high
25 stale, 0 reposted of 55 open
Hiring momentum
61 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from NewsBreak's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for NewsBreak.

About this role

The Software Engineer for the Ads Platform at NewsBreak will be responsible for owning and scaling the backend of the advertising platform, including managing the ad serving path and optimizing auction processes. This senior role involves collaborating with various teams to enhance system performance and operational resilience, while also ensuring the integrity of revenue-critical systems and metrics.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
2/5
freshness
5/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of NewsBreak as an employer.

What you need

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating distributed, high-QPS, low-latency production services (Java, Go, C++, or similar)
  • Strong system design fundamentals: service decomposition, data modeling, caching (e.g., Redis), streaming/messaging (e.g., Kafka), analytical query engines (e.g., ClickHouse, Trino, Spark), and cloud infrastructure (AWS)
  • Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a revenue-critical or transaction-critical system, including correctness of money — accounting, idempotency, reconciliation — and production operational responsibility
  • Comfort with ambiguity and full ownership on a small team: able to go from a business problem to a shipped, measured system without a spec handed down
  • Strong written communication and cross-functional collaboration; effective working with AI-assisted development workflows

Nice to have

  • Direct advertising-domain experience — DSP, SSP, ad exchange, or ad server — including OpenRTB, real-time auctions, header bidding, budget pacing, bid shading, and attribution/conversion measurement
  • Experience integrating with Google Ad Manager / Ad Exchange, Meta or Google ad SDKs, or major mobile exchanges
  • Experience integrating ML model serving (CTR/CVR prediction, ranking) into an auction under latency constraints
  • Experience with brand safety, ad fraud, or invalid-traffic detection

What you get

  • Annual base pay range of $155,000 — $260,000 USD
  • Discretionary bonus and options may be available
  • Overall rewards package designed to attract top talents

Worth weighing

  • Role involves significant ownership and responsibility on a small team, which may require navigating ambiguity
  • High-performance expectations with a focus on revenue-critical systems
  • No specific mention of work-life balance or remote work options

Summarised from NewsBreak's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by NewsBreak on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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