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Principal Engineer, Ads Platform
Fetch
Remote, USA
Full-time
Senior Level
Remote
Discovered 1 months ago
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- Own the platform architecture. Define the architecture of the high-throughput, low-latency systems behind ad selection, targeting, pacing, delivery, attribution, and measurement, including the calls on partitioning, caching, consistency, concurrency, and performance as the platform scales.
- Design for reliability, resilience, and operational excellence. Set how systems degrade gracefully under partial failures, traffic spikes, and downstream degradation, and establish the metrics, tracing, SLOs, and alerting that give engineering clear visibility into revenue-generating systems.
- Evolve event-driven and data-intensive architectures. Guide decisions across transactional and non-transactional stores, streaming, messaging, caching, and real-time processing, balancing consistency, durability, latency, scalability, and operational complexity.
- Set organization-level standards. Establish the architectural patterns and quality bar for service design, APIs, observability, reliability, testing, and operational readiness that teams across the org build on.
- Drive fundamental technical shifts. Identify and lead major migrations, architectural redesigns, and platform re-foundations that unlock large scalability and productivity gains for the entire engineering organization, often through difficult incremental change.
- Own long-term engineering strategy. Shape Fetch's technical direction for the Ads platform across multiple organizations, influence priorities and architecture company-wide, steer it against industry trends, and represent Fetch's technical approach in the broader engineering community.
- Solve the problems no one else can. Solve deeply complex, cross-organizational problems that block major company initiatives, operating under extreme ambiguity, and lead cross-company technical alignment across Ads, Platform, Product, Data, and ML.
- Multiply the org and mentor its leaders. Mentor staff and senior engineers, coach engineering managers and technical leaders on direction, and design coaching, feedback, and calibration systems that persist across teams and time.
- Significant experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed backend systems in production, with demanding throughput, latency, availability, and reliability requirements.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems: partitioning, replication, consistency models, caching, concurrency, asynchronous processing, failure modes, and coordination.
- Experience diagnosing and solving performance and scaling problems across applications, databases, caches, queues, networks, and infrastructure.
- Strong expertise with service-oriented or microservice architectures, APIs, event-driven systems, and high-volume data processing.
- Demonstrated experience making architectural tradeoffs across relational and non-relational databases, streaming platforms, caching technologies, and other distributed storage.
- Strong operational experience with production systems: observability, SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, load testing, and reliability engineering.
- Track record of driving fundamental technical shifts, such as major migrations or architectural redesigns, that improved scalability, velocity, or reliability for an entire engineering organization.
- Track record of solving deeply complex, cross-organizational problems that blocked major initiatives and that others had been unable to solve.
- Demonstrated influence on long-term engineering strategy and architecture at the organization or company level, spanning multiple teams or organizations, including translating technical tradeoffs into business outcomes.
- Experience mentoring principal and staff engineers and coaching engineering managers and technical leaders.
- Ability to remain hands-on while operating at Principal scope, moving between architecture, implementation, debugging, strategy, and mentorship.
- Fluency in modern backend and infrastructure ecosystems such as Kubernetes, event streaming, distributed data stores, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability tooling.
- Experience building or scaling advertising, ad-serving, auction, marketplace, recommendation, or other real-time decisioning systems.
- Familiarity with advertising concepts such as targeting, pacing, bidding, frequency management, attribution, incrementality, measurement, and revenue integrity.
- Experience operating at very high request rates with strict tail-latency requirements, including large-scale event streaming and real-time processing.
- Experience designing multi-region or globally distributed systems with high availability.
- Demonstrated success materially reducing infrastructure cost while increasing throughput, reliability, or performance.
- Experience building platforms that support real-time ML inference, ranking, recommendation, or personalization.
- Strong judgment on where architectural complexity is justified and where a simpler system scales further and operates more reliably.
- Influence beyond a single company, such as contributions to open source, standards bodies, or the broader technical community.
- Equity: We offer full-time employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth.
- 401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.
- Benefits for humans and pets: We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets.
- Continuing Education: Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement.
- Employee Resource Groups: Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue and advocacy. The ERGs participate in our Inclusion Council with members of executive leadership.
- Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, as well as our year-end week-long break.
- Robust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule.
- Calvin Care Cash: Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!
- Flexible Work Environment: Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices, or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US. We’ll ensure you are equally equipped with the hardware and software you need to get your job done in the comfort of your home. (applicable for most roles)
About Fetch
Software & SaaS909 employeesFounded 2013
Fetch is a U.S. consumer rewards app and outcomes-based advertising platform serving shoppers and brands.
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