NewsBreak
Software Engineer, Ads Platform
$155K–$260K
Mountain View, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
About the job
Own and scale NewsBreak’s advertising backend, from advertiser campaign tools to real-time auctions and integrations with external ad exchanges.
What you'll do
- Build and operate the high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving and bidding flow, including auctions and event attribution.
- Develop advertiser campaign management, targeting, pacing, spend accounting, billing, and APIs.
- Expand external exchange bidding and protect the revenue path with monitoring, reconciliation, and ad-quality controls.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating distributed, high-QPS, low-latency production services; Java, Go, C++, or similar.
- Strong system design fundamentals across service decomposition, data modeling, caching, streaming/messaging, analytical query engines, and cloud infrastructure.
- End-to-end ownership of a revenue-critical or transaction-critical system, including money correctness and production operations.
- Strong written communication and cross-functional collaboration; effective with AI-assisted development workflows.
Nice to have
- Direct advertising-domain experience, including DSP, SSP, ad exchange, or ad server systems.
- Experience with ad-platform integrations, ML model serving in auctions, or brand safety and ad-fraud detection.
Pay
$155,000 — $260,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Java, Go, C++, Redis, Kafka, ClickHouse, Trino, Spark
AI focus
Work effectively with AI-assisted development workflows; integrating ML model serving into auctions is preferred.
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