Staff Software Engineer, Ads

Required

• You are a hands-on technical leader who can connect product goals to system architecture, break complex initiatives into deliverable milestones, and work through implementation details.
• You are comfortable taking ownership of an ambiguous, high-impact space, clarifying the most important problems, and creating a path forward without detailed direction.
• You decompose complex problems that span teams and services, clarify dependencies and ownership, and help teams deliver toward a shared outcome.
• You reason clearly about tradeoffs and design systems for both immediate needs and plausible future use cases.
• You build trust with technical, product, and business partners and adapt your communication to create clarity and alignment.
• You lead through influence, direct contribution, and follow-through, and you take accountability for outcomes rather than stopping at recommendations.
• You invest in other engineers and create reusable guidance, tools, and practices that improve quality and decision-making across the teams you work with.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on technical leadership on complex, business-critical systems.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating integrations or developer-facing APIs as products.
• Deep knowledge of API design and lifecycle management, including authentication and authorization, versioning, backwards compatibility, rate limiting, documentation, and developer experience.
• Experience designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems with strong security, reliability, observability, and performance characteristics.
• Experience leading the technical design and delivery of substantial initiatives that span multiple teams or services, from problem definition through production operation.