Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Delivery

The Data Delivery team builds the systems that help StackAdapt customers and internal teams understand campaign performance. We process, organize, and serve large volumes of campaign and marketing data so it can be used reliably across customer-facing dashboards, reporting, billing, forecasting, campaign pacing, measurement, exports, and internal analytics. Our work turns raw activity — such as impressions, clicks, conversions, spend, pacing, audience reach, creative performance, and cross-channel engagement — into accurate and actionable insights. StackAdapt is expanding into the next generation of AI-powered advertising and marketing execution. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on Data Delivery, you will help shape the long-term technical strategy for Data Delivery and the broader Stats & Analytics domain.

Responsibilities

Technical strategy: Shape the long-term architecture and technical direction for Data Delivery and related Stats & Analytics systems; Cross-team leadership: Lead initiatives that span multiple teams, systems, and product areas, helping teams align on durable technical solutions; Platform enablement: Build and guide systems that make it easier to launch new reporting, measurement, forecasting, billing, export, and analytics capabilities; System design: Make high-impact technical decisions across APIs, data pipelines, data models, distributed systems, storage, serving layers, and operational patterns; Product partnership: Work with product, engineering, data science, analytics, and business leaders to translate company priorities into technical roadmaps; Technical quality: Identify systemic gaps in reliability, scalability, data quality, developer experience, and operational ownership, then drive improvements; Decision-making: Clarify trade-offs around correctness, latency, freshness, cost, migration complexity, maintainability, and long-term platform leverage; Technical mentorship: Coach and mentor engineers, including senior engineers, through architecture reviews, design discussions, and strategic technical guidance

Requirements

Broad technical leadership: Experience shaping technical direction across teams, domains, or large platform areas; Backend and data systems expertise: Deep experience building scalable services, distributed systems, data platforms, or data-intensive applications; Strategic system design: Strong judgment across APIs, data pipelines, databases, distributed systems, observability, reliability, and long-term architecture; Cross-functional influence: Ability to align engineering, product, data science, analytics, and business stakeholders around technical strategy; Platform thinking: Ability to design systems that create leverage for multiple teams and make future product development easier; Data quality mindset: Strong ability to reason about correctness, freshness, completeness, consistency, explainability, cost efficiency, and customer trust; Business and product judgment: Ability to connect technical investments to customer impact, product velocity, reliability, and long-term business value; Technical communication: Ability to explain complex technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences; Mentorship: Experience developing senior engineers and raising engineering standards across a team or domain; Strong programming skills

Nice to have

Experience with Golang; Experience with technologies such as Kafka, TiDB, Redshift, Vitess, Iceberg, StarRocks, or Trino; Experience in adtech, marketing technology, reporting, analytics, billing, attribution, forecasting, or high-volume event processing

Benefits

Highly competitive salary; Retirement/401K/Pension Savings globally; Competitive paid time off packages including birthday's off; Access to a comprehensive mental health care program; Health benefits from day one of employment; Work from home reimbursements; Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto; Robust training and onboarding program; Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc); Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning; An awesome parental leave program; A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture; Our social and team events; Additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package