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Senior Backend Engineer, Auction

Own the real-time auction that prices billions of impressions a day. Latency, fairness, and correctness are the job.

San Francisco or Remote (US) $210,000 – $265,000 + equity
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What you'll do

  • Design and operate the server-side unified auction (Go / Rust)
  • Drive down p99 latency while adding demand partners
  • Build the price-discovery and floor-optimization pipeline
  • Carry the pager for the systems you build

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years building low-latency distributed systems in production
  • Deep comfort with profiling, load testing, and capacity planning
  • Experience with ad tech, trading systems, or another sub-second domain

Nice to have

  • Rust in production
  • Experience with in-app bidding / OpenRTB

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