Position Summary

Architects at Samsung Ads know their product and architecture like the back of their hands. They relentlessly drive for excellence, focus on important issues, and solve complicated problems. They constantly innovate and make visions a reality, partnering with engineering managers and product managers to execute. They manage constraints and own what is possible. They coordinate amongst multiple sites worldwide and always work towards increased communication and productivity. If this sounds like you, please read on!

POSITION SUMMARY
Over the last few years, Samsung has been investing in building up a portfolio of engaging services across its devices to complement its market-leading hardware business, while leveraging its unparalleled global distribution footprint. These services, coupled with a vast partner network and proprietary data, generate a massive opportunity for ad-based monetization. Five years into this journey, Samsung Ads is a highly successful and fast-growing business. This business and its continued future success depend on the products, technologies, and tools owned by the Global Ads & Data Product & Engineering team. Hundreds of people strong, with a substantial presence in four countries, the Global P&E team is a fast-paced, dynamic and complex organization, operating across a broad spectrum of product and strategic domains.

Our Architecture team is responsible for defining, refining, and guiding the execution of long, medium, and short-term visions for our systems, as well as for major investments across our product suite. In this role, youll report directly to our US Site Lead Architect in Mountain View, and you will be a close partner with senior endangering and product leadership.

Our tech stack includes a mixture of Erlang, Go, Java, Scala, JavaScript, Concourse, and Kubernetes running on hybrid bare metalaws cloud mix.

You will enjoy this job if you have a deep innate passion for software engineering, distributed systems, systems architecture, and big data. You will need to demonstrate a wide breadth across multiple engineering disciplines, while also having depth in several key areas. You should have an eye and a knack for some product work (both authoritative and working with product teams in refining and defining their vision). Experience in AdTech is a very strong plus. Enterprise Trading and FinTech experience is also extremely relevant to our domain.

Role and Responsibilities

Build high throughput/availability, cloud based, distributed platforms
Quickly prototyping and developing consumer-facing services that will be displayed on millions of devices
Ability to effectively communicate ideas to peers and distributed teams
Contributing towards building a system with a test-driven development / Agile approach
Rapid deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting around the cloud hosted environments
Working on relevant data pipelines to power the targeting data on the platform.

Necessary Skills / Attributes:

10-14 years of professional experience in platform engineering and architecture
Significant exposure and knowledge of his throughput systems (1M TPS traffic or higher)
Previous experience rearchitecting a legacy platform from monolithic systems to a distributed microservice environment
Extensive experience on large-scale multi-tier cloud applications and environments
Extensive experience with Amazon AWS, and other Amazon cloud offerings
Experience working in multi-threaded & concurrency-driven environments and an understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of concurrency
Experienced in Java, Golang, C++ languages
Experience in Automation and Load Testing Frameworks.
Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
Strong knowledge in Computer Science foundations
BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience

Skills and Qualifications

Not-Required but Preferred:

Experience in backend Ad technologies such as RTB, DSP, and DMP.
Experience in client Ad technologies such as Google AdSense, Google Mobile Ads SDK.
Experience using message brokers (such as Kafka, Kinesis)
Experience using caching technologies (such as Memcached)
Big Data technologies and languages (Pig, Hive, Spark, Hadoop)

The qualified candidate will possess the following:

Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Consider yourself a curious, high-level thinker
Passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well
Experience with the Agile Methodology
Module / feature ownership
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