Senior Backend Engineer - OpenRTB

Description

Minute Media is a leading global tech-driven media company, developing all its technological needs in-house, end to end, in a rapid big-data environment. Minute Media’s proprietary platform serves as the company’s foundation, powering its content as well as enabling the evolution of other market leading content brands. Minute Media owns and operates brands, including Sports Illustrated, The Players’ Tribune, 90min, DBLTAP, Mental Floss, The Big Lead, and FanSided (B2B/B2C).

We're expanding our programmatic stack and looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help build and scale our real-time bidding (RTB) infrastructure. You'll develop high-performance Go services based on OpenRTB and VAST, powering low-latency, high-throughput programmatic systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of our bidding and ad-decision services (tens of thousands of QPS, sub-120 ms).
• Build and optimize Go micro-services that speak OpenRTB 2.x, VAST and related specs.
• Shape technical direction: pick patterns, set standards, drive architecture sessions.
• Give constructive feedback on pull requests and mentor engineers.
• Keep our services observable and reliable (DataDog/Grafana, traces).
• Streamline CI/CD, container builds and blue-green deploys together with the platform squad.
  
  

• 3+ years back-end development, 1+ with Go in high-traffic production.
• Solid grasp of the full OpenRTB workflow (bid request/response, win-notice, loss-notice).
• Proven work on event-driven or real-time systems handling >10 k RPS.
• Experience launching and operating services in at least one public cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Knowledge of header bidding, Prebid S2S, SPO, FPO.
• Familiarity with Go profiling (pprof), memory tuning, lock-contention fixes.
  
  

• Terraform or Helm for infra-as-code.
• Exposure to Redis or similar key value stores.
• Exposure to ClickHouse, BigQuery or similar column stores for analytics.