Senior Backend Software Engineer - AdTech
arcadian servicesCulver City, CA
Senior Backend Software Engineer - AdTech
L5
arcadian servicesCulver City, CAtoday
We are partnering with Sony Pictures Entertainment to fill a Senior Software Engineer (Ad Tech) to join the engineering team focused on building scalable, reliable, and high-performance advertising services in cloud environment for our FAST, and AVOD offerings on Playstation and Bravia platforms. As an engineer focused on advertising technology platforms, you will have a strong background in advertising technology, including advertising signals and global privacy signals. This will be a hybrid setup (Onsite - Mondays to Thursdays / Remote - Fridays) and will report directly to Sony regarding the project.
Job Responsibilities:
- Build and support our ads engineering services and infrastructure in cloud environments
- Drive continuous improvements to the reliability, performance, data accuracy, and security of the services
- Solve distributed systems engineering and data problems, utilizing the best tools and technologies
- Develop real-time monitoring and alerting of services and ad signaling flows.
- Extract and aggregate data from a variety of sources into data warehouses
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to ad serving backend systems.
- Collaborate with product, DevOps, and client engineering teams to design scalable microservices architectures
- Integrate with third-party services such as SSAI (server-side ad insertion), Ad Server, SSPs, OpenRTB integrations, Data pipeline and analytics systems
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts such as scaling, availability, reliability, latency, API design, caching and design efficient data structures 5+ years of experience in building backend services in C#, Golang or similar modern programming languages
- Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. Postgres, DynamoDB)
- Strong knowledge of monitoring, observability, and logging tools (e.g. Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, CloudWatch)
- Experience working with Product, QA teams and external Stakeholders
- Experience with cloud-native development (AWS), serverless architecture
- Previous ad-tech experience and strong domain knowledge
- Familiarity with Ads standards and technologies such as VAST, VMAP, SSAIExperience in streaming technologies: Live, AVOD, HLS, DASH, CDN, and playout automation
- Strong background in advertising technology, including ad serving, corresponding ad and privacy signals.
- Familiarity with Video ad servers like Freewheel, Publica, or Springserve
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development using tools such Github Copilot
- Experience with video encoding/transcoding workflows
- Familiarity with SCTE-35, manifest manipulation and stream delivery pipeline
- Job Work Set up:
- Hybrid (Office Location: Culver City, CA): Onsite - Mondays to Thursdays / Remote - Fridays40 work hours/week
- Full-Time Position with Benefits - Includes Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage through HMO available after 90 days of employment
Note: This position does not include Paid Time Off (PTO).
Who are we?
Arcadian is a global leader in innovative technology solutions, seamlessly bridging expertise and scalability across the streaming video entertainment industry. As a B2B services company, we provide support with video and audio transcoding, quality assurance, app development, software development, and customer service. We have team members located in Los Angeles, Chicago, Singapore, and the Philippines.
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Level
SeniorL5
Location
Culver City, CA
Occupation
Software Developers
Industry
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