Senior Software Engineer — Adtech

Zetaglobal

Berlin, Germany
On-site
Real-time bidding systems
Low-latency, high-throughput services
Distributed systems fundamentals
Design and build core DSP bidder components that handle high-QPS bid request ingestion, filtering, enrichment, decisioning, and bid response generation within strict time budgets

Job Summary

  • Design and build core DSP bidder components that handle high-QPS bid request ingestion, filtering, enrichment, decisioning, and bid response generation within strict time budgets.
  • Optimize p99 latency and tail behavior using timeouts, backpressure, concurrency control, efficient serialization, caching strategies, and careful memory/GC management.
  • Define SLOs and observability (metrics, tracing, structured logging), participate in on-call, and drive post-incident improvements.

Matching Summary

Design and build core DSP bidder components that handle high-QPS bid request ingestion, filtering, enrichment, decisioning, and bid response generation within strict time budgets.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • real-time bidding systems
  • low-latency, high-throughput services
  • distributed systems fundamentals
  • AWS at scale
  • Java and/or Go proficiency

Nice-to-have

  • pacing/budgeting systems
  • bid shading
  • supply quality/brand-safety
  • privacy-aware systems
  • Kubernetes/service mesh

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering (Senior)
  • 8+ years of software engineering (Staff)
  • Proven experience building low-latency, high-QPS services
  • Experience operating production services on AWS
  • Hands-on DSP / RTB experience

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