Staff Software Engineer (Ads Measurement)

Location: New York City, New York, United States

Salary: $190,900–$253,750 USD per year, plus potential annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

Databricks is a data and AI company providing a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, AI applications, and agents to organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead ingestion and normalization of advertising platform data at scale, including rate limits, schema drift, backfills, and restated figures.
• Design aggregation and identity layers that make data from different advertising platforms comparable.
• Lead the development of agentic workflows that parse, interpret, present, and act on campaign performance data.
• Set standards for correctness and evaluation in a domain with noisy and partially observable ground truth.
• Partner with product management, design, and engineering teams to build scalable, extensible solutions that support user and business growth.

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including experience as a technical lead or leading other technical leads on complex enterprise software projects.
• Hands-on experience with advertising platform APIs such as Meta, Google, Amazon, or TikTok, or equivalent advertiser, agency, or DSP experience.
• Working knowledge of advertising data models, including campaign hierarchies, attribution windows, conversion APIs, and cross-source deduplication.
• Familiarity with MTA, MMM, incrementality testing, and privacy-preserving aggregation.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered systems to production, including evaluation and guardrails.
• Strong technical and people leadership, ownership, collaboration, and ability to drive 0→1 projects from idea through launch and adoption.

Nice to have

• Experience combining technical and people leadership, such as in a TLM role.
• Experience building or operating measurement infrastructure at a platform, measurement vendor, or large advertiser.
• Background in experimentation or causal inference.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with details varying by region.
• Potential annual performance bonus and equity eligibility.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunity and diversity.