Distributed Systems Engineer 5 - Live Ad Serving

This role is remote, based in the USA.

Compensation:

$170,000 - $720,000 per year

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and implement distributed systems for serving ads in live events.
• Develop and operate ad-insertion logic, including decisioning and manifest manipulation.
• Build monitoring dashboards and alerting systems for platform reliability.
• Drive operational excellence through capacity planning and incident management.
• Ensure scalability and fault tolerance for ad systems.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience, with 4+ years in the Ads domain.
• Experience with ads on live content and building ad servers.
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.

Tech stack:

Distributed systems, ad-tech standards (VAST, VMAP, SCTE-35), cloud infrastructure.