Databricks
Staff Software Engineer, Ads Measurement & Orchestration
$191K–$254K
New York City, New York +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Location
- New York City, New York
San Francisco, California - Experience
- 10+ years of engineering experience; includes time as a tech lead or leading other tech leads.
- Visa sponsorship
- The employer may choose whether to apply for a U.S. government license if export-controlled technology or source code access is required, and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis.
About the job
Leads engineering for an advertising measurement and orchestration platform, building scalable data pipelines, comparable measurement layers, and agentic workflows that interpret and act on campaign performance data.
What you'll do
- Lead ingestion and normalization of advertising-platform data, including rate limits, schema drift, backfills, and restatements.
- Design aggregation and identity layers that make measurements across platforms comparable; set standards for correctness and evaluation.
- Lead development of agentic workflows and partner with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead or leading other tech leads on complex enterprise software projects.
- Hands-on experience with walled garden advertising APIs (Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok) or equivalent advertiser, agency, or DSP experience.
- Working knowledge of ad tech data models and measurement approaches, including MTA, MMM, incrementality testing, and privacy-preserving aggregation.
- Experience shipping LLM-powered systems to production, including evaluation and guardrails.
Nice to have
- Technical and people leadership, for example as a TLM.
- Experience building or operating measurement infrastructure at a platform, measurement vendor, or large advertiser; experimentation or causal inference background.
Pay
$190,900 — $253,750 USD (salary range; non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles)
Tools
Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok, LLM
AI focus
Lead development of agentic workflows that parse, interpret, and present advertising performance data and act on it; ship LLM-powered systems with evaluation and guardrails.
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