Principal Engineer

Madhive is the leading independent and fully customizable operating system built to help local media professionals build profitable, differentiated, and efficient businesses. Madhive empowers sales teams to extend their reach into streaming and connects local advertisers with the communities they serve. Madhive’s platform provides the unique ability to reach local audiences at national scale, with premium supply partnerships and end-to-end tools for planning, targeting, and measuring full-funnel campaign outcomes. Powering campaigns for over 30,000 small and medium businesses per day, Madhive is driving the evolution of local media. 

We’re looking for a Principal Engineer with experience in AdTech to join our engineering team at Madhive. This person will help build and improve the systems that power our advertising platform. You’ll work closely with engineers across the stack to ship reliable, well-tested software and contribute to the quality and evolution of our technology. As a Principal Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in architecting, building, and optimizing our backend infrastructure, data pipelines, and APIs. If you're passionate about cutting-edge technology, enjoy solving complex challenges, and thrive in a collaborative environment, we want you to be a part of our team.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the design and development of our real-time bidding system, ensuring efficient execution of advertising campaigns, real-time auction responses, win tracking, and event monitoring.

• Spearhead the creation of robust data pipelines capable of handling massive data volumes, enabling data movement, aggregation, maintenance, and transformation into actionable insights that drive our platform.

• Architect and develop both external and internal APIs, facilitating seamless integration across our platform, including custom reporting for ad-hoc analysis and programmatic activation of ad campaigns.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance our tech stack, which primarily resides within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Leverage technologies such as Golang, gRPC, BigQuery, Postgres, Airflow, Bigtable, Docker, Spanner, Firebase, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

• Contribute to the design and implementation of ad-tech-scale data and ML solutions.

• Partner with executive leadership to establish strategic visions.

• Foster a culture of open and transparent communication across the organization.

• Coach others on how to navigate challenging conversations with courage.

• Support emerging leaders and inspire individuals in their professional development.

Who You Are:

• A seasoned engineer who can influence our technical architecture, shape our product vision, and contribute to our engineering culture.

• At least 15+ years of experience in building scalable backend systems.

• Background in adtech, including hands-on experience with bidding systems, inventory, supply, and related systems.

• Background in kafka or similar streaming systems

• Has an established track record of creating sweeping improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems.

• Capable of independently owning complex projects and delivering high-quality code with minimal guidance.

• Able to work on ambiguous technical problems and come up with appropriate solutions

• Superior verbal and written communication and persuasion skills.

• Exhibit "T"-shaped expertise, with proficiency across a range of technologies and deep specialization in one technical domain.

• Embrace an ownership mentality and thrive on staying at the forefront of technology trends.

• Collaborative team player who excels at identifying and leading discussions across teams, synthesizing information from diverse perspectives, sharing opinions constructively, and working effectively across departments.

• Fosters a culture of open and transparent communication within their team

• Bonus points for expertise in specific technologies from our stack and experience in architecting petabyte-scale data pipelines, consumer-grade APIs, or high-performance distributed systems.

The approximate compensation range for this position is $250,000-$280,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors, including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team.

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We are Madhive

Madhive is a dynamic, diverse, innovative, and friendly place to work. We embrace our differences and believe they fuel our creativity. We come from varied backgrounds and think that’s important. Whether it’s taking ideas from previous lives and applying them in different ways or creating something completely new, we are all trail-blazing team players who think big and want to make an impact. 

We are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and collaboration. We welcome diversity in education, culture, opinions, race, ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Please be advised that we will NOT be using third-party recruiting agencies for this search.