Staff II Software Engineer, Data Ingestion

StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. They are seeking a Staff II Software Engineer for their Data Ingestion Team to lead technical initiatives and improve the infrastructure that handles high-volume event processing and data flows across the company.

Responsibilities:

• Own and lead large technical initiatives end-to-end, from design through production and monitoring
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the team
• Design, build, and operate highly scalable, distributed ingestion services for real-time and near-real-time scenarios
• Contribute hands-on as needed while enabling the team to execute effectively
• Build and maintain event ingestion pipelines using streaming technologies like Kafka
• Work with high-volume storage systems and databases to persist and serve data efficiently
• Partner with Data, ML, Product, and Platform teams to support evolving requirements
• Improve code quality, testing practices, system reliability, and observability
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions
• Balance and prioritize projects to maximize impact and align with company objectives

Requirements:

• Extensive experience building distributed systems and high-throughput backend services
• Proven ability to lead technical direction and drive large, cross-team initiatives
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with comfort working in ambiguous, complex domains
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across teams
• Ability to think strategically, lead technically, and drive high-impact, scalable solutions
• Hands-on experience with streaming systems (Kafka or similar)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs (consistency, availability, partition tolerance, scalability)
• Maintains an AI-forward approach to software engineering - leveraging AI to boost productivity, collaboration, and business automation
• Familiarity with AdTech, event-driven architectures, or analytics systems