Principal Engineer (Audience Team)

Principal Engineer

New York City, NY

Hybrid Schedule (M/F remote, T/W/TH in-office)

Buffalo, NY / East Coast US - Remote

At Magnite, we cultivate an environment of continuous growth and collaboration. Our work impacts what millions of people read, watch, and buy, and we’re looking for people to help us tackle that responsibility with creativity and focus.  Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI) is the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV / streaming, online video, display, and audio. Our tech fuels billions of transactions per day!

About this team:

The Audience team is responsible for managing and delivering the first and third-party data that powers all of the platforms that Magnite operates. We’re a globally distributed team of software and data engineers who build and operate data pipelines and real-time scaled services to enable Magnite and Magnite’s customers to reach their goals.

In this role you will:

• Lead the development and implementation of software projects from inception to deployment.

• Be a creative problem solver who can draw on an array of expertise and technology to design and implement reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions to challenging problems.

• Work closely with business stakeholders to deliver the most appropriate results.

• Lead the technical specification, development, integration, testing and release of software components.

• Identify and address technical challenges, optimize code for performance, and participate in ongoing code refactoring.

• Define long-term strategic engineering goals for the team.

We’re looking for someone with: 

• 7 to 10+ years of production coding experience, preferably in server-side Java, Go, and/or Rust.

• Expertise in service-oriented architectures, microservices, advanced database schemas, relational and nonrelational databases, highly scalable and available services.

• The ability to manage multiple priorities at the same time.

• Hands-on experience in building RESTful WebServices.

• Great communication skills.

• Experience with microservices using Docker. Kubernetes and Spring Boot are a plus.

• Experience using SQL and one or more DB (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, etc).

• Experience using NoSQL (Aerospike, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB).

• Experience with monitoring and metrics systems (Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch).

• Experience with automated testing frameworks (TDD, Mocking, Unit/Functional/Integration).

• Experience with development and CI tools: git, github actions, Jenkins, Jira.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and all of its assorted tools & technologies.

• Experience with IaaC technologies (Puppet, Spacelift, Terraform).

• Experience with load balancing technologies (AWS ALB, HAProxy, NGINX).

• Experience working with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and a variety of different programming/scripting languages.

• Experience with Javascript, React Component Libraries like Ant Design, Material UI, or React Bootstrap is a plus.

Our current tech stack:

• Golang, Rust, Java / Spring Boot, Python

• ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes

• Docker

• ALB, HAProxy

• RDS, MariaDB, Postgres

• Redis, Memcache

• Kafka, SNS, SQS

• Terraform, Github Actions, Jenkins

• JavaScript / TypeScript / React

• Linux (both on-premise and AWS)

Perks and Benefits: 

• Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage from Day One

• Generous Time Off  

• Holiday Breaks and Quarterly Wellness Days

• Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Family-Focused Benefits and Parental Leave 

• 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match

• Disability and Life Insurance

• Cell Phone Subsidy

• Fitness and Wellness Reimbursement

Company Culture: 

We believe collaboration is essential to success. Magnite’s hybrid schedule includes two days worked remotely (Monday and Friday) and three days on-site (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Our offices provide catered lunches, beverages, snacks, training and development, and office events to support your work week.  We also understand you have appointments, families, hobbies, and other commitments. Magnite strives to maintain a healthy work/life integration for all employees so you can bring your best every day - both at work and at home.

• Community Service and Volunteer Events

• Company-Matched Charitable Contributions

• Wellness Coach and Mental Health Support

• Career Development Initiatives and a Career Growth Framework

• Culture and Inclusion Programs

• Bonusly Peer-to-Peer Recognition Program

About Us

The world's leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. Anchored in bustling New York City, sunny Los Angeles, mile-high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.

The base salary range for this position, across all United States geographies, is $175,000 - $195,000 per year in addition to an annual variable bonus based on performance and company equity (NASDAQ: MGNI).

Magnite is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Our Commitment: We aim to incorporate a wide range of voices into our Magnite culture, cultivating an environment where employees feel welcomed, cared for, and encouraged to freely share ideas. We are committed to employee growth, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation.  We invest in Magnite’s local communities. We seek talent from all backgrounds to champion corporate values of seeing the big picture and being catalysts of change.

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