Software Developer Production Engineering

Required Software Developer - Production Engineering
Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!
As a Software Developer on the Production Engineering team in our Infrastructure R&D Department, youll play a vital role in building and scaling the core platform behind one of the largest real-time recommendation systems in the world.
1.4 billion users. 950,000 requests per second. 140TB of fresh data every day. 800M metrics every minute.
Youll join a team of strong engineers operating at this scale, with full ownership from design to production.
Youll have the freedom to move fast, solve complex infrastructure challenges, and help drive what comes next.
How youll make an impact:
As a Production engineering team member, youll bring value by:
Have end to end ownership: Design, develop, deploy, measure and maintain our services
Build and evolve one of the worlds largest real-time systems, including our core framework code, used across R&D
Improve observability, monitoring, and logging to proactively detect and resolve performance issues.
Leverage Gen-AI tools to accelerate development velocity across the R&D organization, enabling further growth of our recommendation engine
Collaborate with the brightest software engineers team members
Directly shape how billions of people discover the internet.
Here are some of the things software devs in our group did in the last several months:
Rewrote part of our recommendation servers to reduce serving time p999 by >40%
Developed internal smart and adaptable cluster management capabilities to allow dynamic resources allocation for heterogeneous traffic patterns
Created and improved our Kafka consumer designed for very high scale
Developed a brand new metrics pipeline, ingesting over 100B metric messages per day
Rolled out a new custom home-built authentication service
Many more things
Our Tech Stack:
Java, Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Vertica, MySQL, HDFS, BigQuery, Docker, Linux, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Metrictank, Grafana, Airflow, Redis.