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Software Engineer - Ads Applied Data

Posted 16 Days Ago
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Hybrid
Seattle, WA
140K-175K Annually
Mid level
Easy Apply
Hybrid
Seattle, WA
140K-175K Annually
Mid level
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and optimize data systems for real-time processing, working with cross-functional teams on feature engineering and data delivery.
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About Moloco:

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media and Streaming Monetization solutions enable retailers, marketplaces, and streaming platforms to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

About the Role

The Ads Data Infra team builds and scales the foundational data infrastructure that powers Moloco’s advertising platform. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and optimize distributed data systems for real-time and batch processing, ensuring reliable and low-latency delivery of data across the ads ecosystem. You’ll work closely with Product, ML, and Data Science teams to enable feature engineering, identity resolution, and advanced user signal enrichment across online and offline pipelines.

Responsibilities
  • Design and build large-scale distributed systems for data ingestion (Petabyte-scale), transformation, and serving.
  • Partner with ML and Serving teams to support feature engineering workflows, connecting offline data to serving systems.
  • Contribute to the evolution of Feature Infra / Feature Store, ensuring scalability, discoverability, and consistency of feature data.
  • Collaborate on Identity Graph construction to unify user and device identifiers for more effective signal enrichment and targeting.
  • Improve system observability, resilience, and performance in high-throughput, low-latency environments.
  • Mentor engineers and help define best practices for data and backend engineering.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical field.
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience with one or more modern languages (Java, Kotlin, Go, C++, C#, or Python).
  • Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining backend services or data-intensive systems.
  • Hands-on experience with data processing frameworks such as Apache Beam, Dataflow, or Spark, and orchestration tools like Airflow.
  • Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and data storage technologies (e.g., BigQuery, Bigtable, Redis, GCS, Kafka, Pub/Sub).
  • Demonstrated experience delivering impactful projects through collaboration with cross-functional teams (Product, ML, Data Science).
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with AdTech systems or data pipelines (e.g., bidding, attribution, identity, measurement, or audience platforms).
  • Exposure to Feature Infrastructure or Feature Store concepts and workflows.
  • Familiarity with Identity Graph–related systems or large-scale user data processing.
  • Experience working with Petabyte-scale data and high-availability systems.

Our Compensation And Benefits (for United States Residents Only)

In accordance with various state laws, the range provided is a reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. We also offer a competitive benefits package.

Base Pay Range:
$140,400$175,000 USD

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being: 

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. We offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives.

Moloco Values: 

  • Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success. 
  • Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible. 
  • Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value. 
  • Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail. 

Additional Resources: 

  • Moloco Company Blog 
  • Moloco Leadership
  • Moloco Newsroom 

Equal Opportunity: 

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging gives us the greatest opportunity to achieve our vision to become the scaling engine for the Internet economy.

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression and identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidate Privacy Notice:

Your privacy matters to us. By applying, you acknowledge that you’ve reviewed our Candidate Privacy Notice.

Top Skills

Airflow
Apache Beam
AWS
Azure
BigQuery
Bigtable
C#
C++
Dataflow
GCP
Gcs
Go
Java
Kafka
Kotlin
Pub/Sub
Python
Redis
Spark

Moloco Seattle, Washington, USA Office

701 5th Ave. Suite 6300, Seattle, WA, United States, 98104

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