Senior Staff Software Engineer Architect

About Moloco:

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTubes monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, were transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media and Streaming Monetization solutions enable retailers, marketplaces, and streaming platforms to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

The Impact Youll Be Contributing to Moloco:

Moloco is at the forefront of revolutionizing the digital advertising industry through the power of machine learning. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Moloco, you will play a critical role in driving innovation and shaping the future of digital advertising. We are looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems that solve complex problems in a fast-paced environment.

This role is part of Moloco’s Streaming Monetization (MSM) team, building the first ML-driven monetization platform built from the ground up. MSM allows leading streaming media and OTT companies to leverage the cutting-edge monetization engine.

If you are excited about building groundbreaking technology that needs to scale for millions of users, and has a direct impact on the customers’ topline, then Moloco is the place for you.

The Opportunity:

• Drive engineering projects for architecting, designing, developing, and operating an end-to-end service platform for customers looking to leverage Moloco’s ML-driven advertising technology stack, services and infrastructure.
• Build, grow and lead a full stack engineering team responsible for developing enterprise platform products, features and APIs across the entire MSM technology stack.
• Be responsible for all development and operational aspects of MSM engineering in collaborating with peers in the Product Management, Business Development, and Enterprise Sales teams. Joint activities will include requirement specification, ensuring the quality of products and service operations, and communicating the technical roadmap to enterprise customers.
• Own the communication, coordination, and facilitation of cross-functional MSM engineering projects across Moloco’s engineering organization.
• Help engineering leadership build roadmaps and action plans for the MSM service.
• Identify risks in executing projects and develop mitigation plans and strategies.
• This role reports to India site leader.
  
  

How Do I Know if the Role is Right For Me?

• 15+ years of hands-on industry experience in software development on data infrastructure or platform.
• Experience building large scale distributed systems that can handle large data (Terabytes) and millions of users.
• Excellent software development skills and fluency in at least one programming language (preferably Java, Go or Python).
• Experienced team lead. Should be comfortable mentoring senior, mid and junior engineers.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and strategic planning.
• Experience in Cloud/Big Data platforms (e.g., AWS, GCE, GCP, Beam, Spark, BigTable, BigQuery etc.).
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Interest in monetization or digital advertising technology business.
  
  

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. We offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives.

Moloco Values:

• Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success.
• Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value.
• Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail.
  
  

Additional Resources:

• Moloco Company Blog
• Moloco Leadership
• Moloco Newsroom
  
  

Equal Opportunity:

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging gives us the greatest opportunity to achieve our vision to become the scaling engine for the Internet economy.

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression and identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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