Distributed Systems Engineer 6 - Ad Eventing

This role is based in Los Gatos, California or New York, New York.

Compensation:

$499,000 - $900,000/year

Responsibilities:

• Own the technical direction of the Ad Eventing team, including architecture reviews and incident leadership.
• Architect and evolve the end-to-end ad event pipeline under strict latency and throughput constraints.
• Scale event ingestion infrastructure to handle billions of events per day.
• Design and implement robust deduplication and validation systems.
• Build and operate stream processing pipelines using technologies like Kafka or Flink.
• Define and maintain authoritative event schemas and data contracts.
• Drive operational excellence across the eventing stack.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in building distributed systems and backend services.
• Deep experience with high-throughput event ingestion and stream processing.
• Experience with event deduplication and validation systems in an ads environment.
• Strong understanding of delivery semantics and idempotency patterns.
• Technical leadership experience across multiple teams.

Tech stack:

Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, and other relevant technologies.