Senior Software Engineer (Auction Logic)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems): Building and optimizing a high-scale real-time advertising auction platform with an accent on performance, scalability, and algorithmic efficiency. Focus on designing low-latency distributed systems capable of handling millions of QPS and terabytes of daily data.

Location: Must be based in Redmond, United States (work from office at least 4 days per week)

Salary: USD 119,800 – 234,700 per year

Company

hirify.global AI develops advanced AI and monetization platforms to empower global organizations through high-performance advertising technology.

What you will do

• Lead cross-team engineering efforts to build business-critical products for publishers and buyers on the Monetize platform.
• Architect and own significant areas of the real-time distributed platforms.
• Design and implement scalable solutions for high-performance auction logic under strict real-time constraints (<100ms).
• Optimize software for performance, space, and algorithmic efficiency for systems processing over 5 million QPS.
• Mentor junior engineers on software development best practices and conduct rigorous code reviews.
• Support and debug production-level issues to ensure system reliability and availability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 4+ years of technical engineering experience with C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Must be able to pass hirify.global Cloud Background Check.
• Experience building high-performance, multi-threaded, distributed systems, preferably in a Linux environment.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and time complexity.
• Knowledge of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and generalized architecture patterns.

Nice to have

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 8+ years of technical engineering experience.
• Experience practicing advanced optimization techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a growth-mindset culture focusing on respect, integrity, and accountability.
• Opportunity to solve complex technical challenges at an immense scale (100 billion requests per day).
• Collaborative environment with a team of passionate engineers.
• Comprehensive corporate benefits and competitive base pay.