Staff Software Engineer, Ads Measurement & Orchestration
Databricks · New York City, New York
Posted about 2 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 57 days Databricks's roles stay open a median of 83 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Databricks's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Databricks
- high 879 stale, 25 reposted of 879 open
- Hiring momentum
- 1112 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-25
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About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Ads Measurement & Orchestration at Databricks, you will lead the development of systems that normalize and aggregate advertising data, ensuring accurate performance metrics across various platforms. Your role involves designing workflows to interpret and act on performance data, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create scalable solutions, and setting standards for data correctness in a complex advertising landscape.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead or leading other tech leads, on complex enterprise software projects
- Hands-on experience with walled garden advertising APIs (Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok) or equivalent from the advertiser, agency, or DSP side
- Working knowledge of ad tech data models: campaign hierarchies, attribution windows, conversion APIs, deduplication across sources
- Familiarity with measurement approaches such as MTA, MMM, incrementality testing, and privacy-preserving aggregation
- Experience shipping LLM-powered systems to production, including evaluation and guardrails
- High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments
Nice to have
- Combination of technical and people leadership, for example, as a TLM
- Built or operated measurement infrastructure at a platform, measurement vendor, or large advertiser
- Background in experimentation or causal inference
Worth weighing
- No specific benefits listed in the posting
- Pay range provided, but actual compensation may vary based on individual factors
- Role involves leading complex projects with potentially high stakes due to the nature of advertising data
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