CrawlJobs Logo

Senior Software Engineer - Ads

rockbot.com Logo

Rockbot

Location Icon

Location:
United States

Category Icon
Category:
IT - Software Development

Job Type Icon

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary Icon

Salary:

150000.00 - 205000.00 USD / Year
Save Job
Save Icon
Apply Position

Job Description:

Rockbot is building the future of streaming media in businesses, and this role will play a key part in our Ads Pod — the team responsible for transforming how ads are delivered, targeted, and measured across our platform. You'll help shape scalable systems that power dynamic ad experiences for in-location media, driving value for both our customers and brand partners.

Job Responsibility:

  • Architect and implement scalable solutions to support a growing number of users and advertising campaigns
  • Develop and maintain high-performance ad-serving systems to ensure reliable ad delivery
  • Build innovative ad products to simplify ad operations and streamline sales workflows
  • Collaborate with internal data platform teams to prototype and validate in-house tools for data analysis, algorithm automation, and data-driven decision-making
  • Collaborate with other teams and third-party services to seamlessly integrate the ad serving pipeline with relevance, targeting, bidding, and asset serving systems
  • Develop scalable data pipelines and systems to support ad measurement, ROI analysis, and revenue attribution
  • Continuously monitor and optimize system performance to identify and address bottlenecks, enhancing ad delivery efficiency

Requirements:

  • Broad knowledge of ad tech and the advertising landscape, programmatic advertising, and digital marketing trends
  • Good product sense and prior experience designing and launching product features
  • Exceptional ability to work with and refactor legacy code effectively, adapting to frequent requirement changes
  • Exceptional skill in debugging production issues, especially for ad impressions on remote devices
  • Exceptional familiarity with distributed backend systems in cloud environments, including databases, caching, and application code
  • Proficiency with integrating third-party software and REST APIs, even with challenging documentation or systems
  • Proficiency in JavaScript across legacy and modern Chromium browsers
  • Proficiency with SQL, data warehousing concepts, query optimization, data streaming, and role-based access control
  • Strong algorithmic thinking ability, particularly for developing ad fill optimization strategies
  • Ability to rapidly translate high-level product requirements into concrete full-stack prototypes and solutions
  • Familiarity with the VAST specification and client-side ad SDKs (e.g., PAL SDK, OM SDK, IMA SDK)
  • Familiarity with video streaming/playback technologies (including on-device) and Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI)
  • Experience with front-end development tasks
What we offer:
  • equity
  • benefits

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 11, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
Icon
Rockbot - All Job Offers
Job Link Share:
Copy Link Icon
Facebook Icon Twitter Icon LinkedIn Icon

Looking for more opportunities? Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Briefcase Icon

Similar Jobs for Senior Software Engineer - Ads

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Atlassian’s Global Experiences organization is dedicated to creating unified, se...
Location
Location
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
https://www.atlassian.com Logo
Atlassian
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep expertise in platform and product engineering at scale
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
  • able to influence and partner across teams
  • Deep product engineering background, ideally with experience in platform environments at scale
  • Full stack experience preferred, or strong back-end skills with front-end capability
  • Proven ability to architect, build, and operate large-scale, distributed systems and user-facing applications
  • Strong product mindset and UX sensibility
  • Experience leading multi-year, cross-org technical initiatives that drive business outcomes
  • Passion for innovation, continuous improvement, and fostering an inclusive, high-performing engineering environment
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Leading technical strategy and architecture for Platform Apps, ensuring solutions are robust, secure, and consistent
  • Driving innovation in user and admin experiences, including integrating AI-powered insights and advancing Atlassian’s System of Work
  • Collaborating with product, UX, and engineering leaders to define and deliver a roadmap of high-impact, standalone apps
  • Managing negotiations and dependencies across multiple teams and departments, balancing deep project involvement with platform-wide strategic thinking
  • Standardising and mechanising app development processes , transitioning from ad hoc to scalable, repeatable approaches
  • Mentoring engineers and championing engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and an inclusive culture
What we offer
What we offer
  • Flexibility: Work from anywhere Atlassian has a legal entity, with support for remote, hybrid, or in-office work
  • Health and wellbeing resources
  • Paid volunteer days
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Software Engineer

Koddi's Ads team is building the next generation of performance advertising tech...
Location
Location
United States , Fort Worth
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
koddi.com Logo
Koddi
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Minimum of 5 years of professional experience developing and maintaining complex, high-scale, or high-availability systems
  • Strong programming fundamentals and deep understanding of software design principles
  • Proficiency in at least one object-oriented or strongly typed language, with a preference for Go, Python, or the C family
  • Experience designing and building backend services, APIs, and data pipelines for performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases, such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, or Aerospike
  • Hands-on experience deploying, operating, and monitoring production systems in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
  • A strong foundation in distributed systems, concurrency, and performance optimization
  • Experience contributing to large, multi-contributor codebases using modern version control and CI/CD workflows
  • A proven ability to mentor other engineers, raise the standard of technical quality, and lead by example
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design, build, and optimize large-scale backend systems that power Koddi's ad serving, optimization, and reporting pipelines
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, data science, and client delivery to identify and implement impactful solutions
  • Own technical projects from design and development through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
  • Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, and developer experience, ensuring systems meet performance goals under heavy data and traffic loads
  • Experiment and innovate with new ideas in ad performance, auction dynamics, and optimization algorithms
  • Mentor and support other engineers, contributing to a culture of excellence and continuous improvement
  • Use data and metrics to evaluate impact, guide decision-making, and identify new opportunities for growth and efficiency
  • Contribute to Koddi's technical vision by influencing architecture, design standards, and best practices across the Ads organization
  • Participate in lively technology discussions where your opinion is truly valued
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Product)

Koah Labs is building the ad network to power the next generation of AI-native p...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco
Salary
Salary:
150000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year
koahlabs.com Logo
Koah Labs
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Have experience building and scaling production quality systems and experiences
  • Are comfortable working across the stack, tackling new tasks out of your comfort zone, and can handle ambiguity
  • Work well in-person and enjoy fast feedback loops
  • Enjoy breaking down problems and testing your hypotheses
  • Get excited about end-to-end ownership within high agency environments
  • Have been a startup founder or an early-stage engineer
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Lead initiatives across the stack, with high agency in product direction and technical design
  • Dive deeply into technically challenging and rewarding work, whether it is optimizing our matching algorithms or creating world class experiences that reach millions of users
  • Partner with cross functional stakeholders in data and GTM to drive product direction that our customers need
  • Embrace an experimentation mindset - we are constantly trying to learn about how users are interacting with AI-native products, and use data from these experiments to drive our work.
What we offer
What we offer
  • Meaningful Equity
  • Offers Bonus
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Ad Display Platform Engineering

The Bidding Platform organization is the core of the RTB business, processing ov...
Location
Location
Poland
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
rtbhouse.com Logo
RTB House
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering
  • Proficiency in programming
  • Excellent understanding of how complex IT systems work (from the hardware level, through software, to algorithmics)
  • Very good knowledge of fundamental Internet protocols and technologies (DNS, HTTP, cookies and others)
  • Good knowledge of basic methods of creating concurrent programs and distributed systems (from thread level to geo-distributed clusters level)
  • Practical ability to observe, monitor and analyse the operation of production systems (and draw valuable conclusions from it)
  • The ability to critically analyze the solutions created in terms of performance (from estimating the theoretical performance of the designed systems to detecting and removing actual performance problems in production)
  • General knowledge of issues (typical problems and methods of solving them) in the areas of 'high scalability' and 'high availability'
  • C1 level in English and Polish
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Implement and maintain (in all aspects, including setting up environment, writing configuration code, monitor production) high-quality backend services for displaying Ads globally, focusing on extreme performance and scalability
  • Develop tools (deployment, testing platforms, web performance and reliability monitoring), and critical optimizations to drive measurable improvements in critical user performance metrics for ad rendering and display
  • Write, test, and deploy robust, efficient, and well-documented code in Java/Python, ensuring adherence to the highest coding and performance standards
  • Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing sessions, and help implement technical standards and best practices within the team
What we offer
What we offer
  • Projects focused on extreme performance and high code quality – solid code reviews are our standard
  • Collaboration within an interdisciplinary, self-sufficient team (including DevOps, database experts, backend developers, product designers, and QA engineers)
  • Hardware and software tailored to your preferences (e.g., MacBook, AI tool licenses)
  • Flexible working conditions – no core hours, fully remote cooperation possible
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Software Engineer, Video

Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in video streaming technologies to ...
Location
Location
Australia , Melbourne
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
easygo.io Logo
Easygo Gaming
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in video streaming software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development
  • Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks relevant to the role (Go, PHP and/or React)
  • Strong understanding of code architecture and design principles
  • Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders
  • Positive attitude and eagerness to learn new technologies to grow as a full-stack engineer
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Serve as a subject matter expert, collaborating with engineering, product, and operations teams to diagnose and resolve complex video-related issues
  • Architect, develop, and deploy a robust Server-Side Ad Insertion system for our live and VOD platforms, ensuring seamless ad delivery and a high-quality viewer experience
  • Analyse and address video playback challenges such as startup latency and rebuffering. Implement technical solutions both in player and service architecture that improve Quality of Experience (QoE)
  • Contribute to the design and evolution of our streaming architecture, from encoding and packaging to content delivery network (CDN) integrations and playback logic
  • Provide input on technology selection, best practices, and future product requirements for our video and ad platform
  • Hands-on coding, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting to ensure code quality, scalability, and maintainability
  • Write efficient, scalable, and maintainable code, adhering to coding standards and best practices
  • Lead and independently complete medium-sized projects or components from start to finish
  • Identify opportunities for improvement and take initiative in technical discussions
  • Share knowledge and best practices with the team, fostering a collaborative and learning-oriented environment
What we offer
What we offer
  • EAP access for you and your family
  • Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform
  • A full-time barista who will make you coffee, tea and fresh juices
  • Daily catered breakfast
  • Massage Wednesdays
  • Team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays
  • Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles
  • Paid volunteer day
  • Office first culture with flexible start and finish times
  • Unlimited access to drinks and snacks
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Silvus is seeking a full-time Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our Rese...
Location
Location
United States , Los Angeles
Salary
Salary:
140000.00 - 200000.00 USD / Year
silvustechnologies.com Logo
Silvus Technologies (International)
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Minimum Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical, Computer, or Communications Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant engineering fields
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant embedded system software development experience
  • 3 years of relevant embedded system software development experience with an advanced STEM degree
  • Expertise in C programming and experience in Linux kernel driver development
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Implementation of software portion of MAC (Medium Access Control) and mobile ad-hoc networking routing protocols
  • Network management software and web interface implementation
  • Implementation of different security protocols and encryption algorithms
  • Audio streaming and push-to-talk voice application implementation
  • Analyze and improve product security and robustness to meet certain regulatory requirements such as NIST FIPS 140-3 and NIAP Common Criteria
  • Implementation of testing software for product performance and reliability testing
  • Device driver and board support package development and maintenance for both ARM and RISC-V based systems
  • Linux system customization and scripting
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Software Engineering Manager – Optimizer Hub

Azul’s rapidly expanding product portfolio, engineering team growth, and investm...
Location
Location
Czech Republic , Prague
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
azul.com Logo
Azul Systems
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Experience leading and building teams, ability to asses engineer’s skills and experience and help with their development.
  • Deeply knowledgeable in engineering project management including release cycles, bug tracking applications, reporting, and schedule forecasting
  • Understand project architecture, used technologies, and engineering practices
  • A stellar skillset of collaboration, planning, influencing, prioritization, and time managemen
  • Ability to drive data analytics and reporting of development processes
  • Experience developing large distributed applications using k8s and cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience with Agile methodologies
  • Expert in the use of Jira, Confluence and related tools by engineering teams to accurately track software development projects
  • 3+ years minimum working in an engineering manager or technical project manager role for a software organization
  • Software Engineering background, i.e. hands on experience developing software product in Java or C/C++
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Oversee design and development of Optimizer Hub product, mentor engineers
  • Work with product managers and technical leads to respond to customer needs by clearly articulated plans and execution of the plans
  • Keep a living release calendar of implementation phases / events to ensure plans can accommodate realistic schedules / avoid conflict and provide accurate reports on major activities.
  • Build and manage dashboards and reporting on development performance metrics, top-down and bottom-up forecasting, benchmarks, trends, and ad hoc analyses
  • Use your subject matter expertise to drive processes that lead to predictable insights with the minimum necessary overhead
  • Work with customer support to track escalated issues
  • Help to improve our project management processes with a special focus on Agile development
What we offer
What we offer
  • Equity Program - be part of the company success.
  • Annual bonus based on company performance.
  • Referral Program - bring your colleague we would all love to work with.
  • IT Equipment - MacBook Pro or any other HW according to your preferences.
  • Work-life balance - 5 weeks of holidays, 5 sick days, flexible working hours, 100% work from home also possible.
  • Offices in Prague City Centre - if you prefer.
  • Most importantly you will work with top experts worldwide who contribute to the Java ecosystem
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Silvus is recruiting a Senior Embedded Software Engineer reporting to the Direct...
Location
Location
United States , Los Angeles
Salary
Salary:
135000.00 - 200000.00 USD / Year
silvustechnologies.com Logo
Silvus Technologies (International)
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant embedded system software development experience
  • Expertise in C programming and experience in Linux kernel driver development
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen due to clients under U.S. government contracts
  • All employment is contingent upon the successful clearance of a background check
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Implementation of software portion of MAC (Medium Access Control) and mobile ad-hoc networking routing protocols
  • Network management software and web interface implementation
  • Implementation of different security protocols and encryption algorithms
  • Audio streaming and push to talk voice application implementation
  • Analyze and improve product security and robustness to meet certain regulatory requirements such as NIST FIPS 140-3 and NIAP Common Criteria
  • Implementation of testing software for product performance and reliability testing
  • Device driver and board support package development and maintenance for both ARM and RISC-V based systems
  • Linux system customization and scripting
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
Jobs by Category
Art and Entertainment Jobs Banking Jobs Call Center Jobs Construction Jobs Consulting Jobs Customer Service Jobs Education Jobs Energy Jobs Finance Jobs Gastronomy Jobs Health and Beauty Jobs Hospitality and Tourism Jobs Human Resources Jobs Insurance Jobs IT - Administration Jobs IT - Software Development Jobs Legal Jobs Logistics Jobs Manufacturing Jobs Marketing, Digital Marketing, SEO, SEM Jobs Media Jobs Nursing Jobs Office Administration Jobs Pharmacy Jobs Physical Work Jobs Public Relations Jobs Public Sector Jobs Purchasing Jobs Quality Control Jobs Real Estate Jobs Research and Development Jobs Sales Jobs
Job Positions Jobs by Country
United States Jobs United Kingdom Jobs India Jobs Canada Jobs Australia Jobs Ireland Jobs Germany Jobs Poland Jobs
Company
Blog About Us Contact
Follow Us
Facebook
X (Twitter)
LinkedIn
Instagram
© 2026 CrawlJobs Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Terms & Conditions Privacy Policy