[Hiring] Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Delivery @StackAdapt

Role Description

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on Data Delivery, you will help shape the long-term technical strategy for Data Delivery and the broader Stats & Analytics domain. You will work across teams to understand how the platform fits together, identify the right technical investments, and enable new product and feature development through scalable, reliable, and well-designed data systems.

• Technical strategy: Shape the long-term architecture and technical direction for Data Delivery and related Stats & Analytics systems.
• Cross-team leadership: Lead initiatives that span multiple teams, systems, and product areas, helping teams align on durable technical solutions.
• Platform enablement: Build and guide systems that make it easier to launch new reporting, measurement, forecasting, billing, export, and analytics capabilities.
• System design: Make high-impact technical decisions across APIs, data pipelines, data models, distributed systems, storage, serving layers, and operational patterns.
• Product partnership: Work with product, engineering, data science, analytics, and business leaders to translate company priorities into technical roadmaps.
• Technical quality: Identify systemic gaps in reliability, scalability, data quality, developer experience, and operational ownership, then drive improvements.
• Decision-making: Clarify trade-offs around correctness, latency, freshness, cost, migration complexity, maintainability, and long-term platform leverage.
• Technical mentorship: Coach and mentor engineers, including senior engineers, through architecture reviews, design discussions, and strategic technical guidance.

Qualifications

• Broad technical leadership: Experience shaping technical direction across teams, domains, or large platform areas.
• Backend and data systems expertise: Deep experience building scalable services, distributed systems, data platforms, or data-intensive applications.
• Strategic system design: Strong judgment across APIs, data pipelines, databases, distributed systems, observability, reliability, and long-term architecture.
• Cross-functional influence: Ability to align engineering, product, data science, analytics, and business stakeholders around technical strategy.
• Platform thinking: Ability to design systems that create leverage for multiple teams and make future product development easier.
• Data quality mindset: Strong ability to reason about correctness, freshness, completeness, consistency, explainability, cost efficiency, and customer trust.
• Business and product judgment: Ability to connect technical investments to customer impact, product velocity, reliability, and long-term business value.
• Technical communication: Ability to explain complex technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentorship: Experience developing senior engineers and raising engineering standards across a team or domain.
• Technical stack: Strong programming skills; experience with Golang and technologies such as Kafka, TiDB, Redshift, Vitess, Iceberg, StarRocks, or Trino is a plus.
• Domain experience: Experience in adtech, marketing technology, reporting, analytics, billing, attribution, forecasting, or high-volume event processing is a plus.

Requirements

• Data Delivery has a clear long-term technical direction that supports StackAdapt’s product and platform growth.
• Teams can launch new reporting, measurement, forecasting, billing, export, and analytics capabilities faster and with greater confidence.
• Core data systems are more reliable, scalable, cost-efficient, and easier to evolve.
• Product and engineering teams have a stronger understanding of how Stats & Analytics systems fit together.
• Technical trade-offs are clearly understood, documented, and aligned across teams.
• Engineers around you grow through your mentorship, strategic guidance, and example.
• Data Delivery helps StackAdapt scale new advertising and marketing opportunities by giving customers a trusted view of performance across channels and the customer journey.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Retirement/401K/Pension Savings globally
• Competitive Paid time off packages including birthdays off!
• Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
• Health benefits from day one of employment
• Work from home reimbursements
• Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
• Robust training and onboarding program
• Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books, etc.)
• Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
• An awesome parental leave program
• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
• Our social and team events!