Principal Engineer

Kochava provides a unified platform with solutions for mobile + CTV advertising and marketing technology clients. We serve the world’s top publishers and digital brands, and we set industry standards for secure, real-time data solutions. We help marketers establish identity, measure, and optimize their marketing across connected devices like smartphones, tablets, connected tv’s, and more, while enabling publishers to provide real-time, outcomes-based analytics to their advertising clients.

We enable the visibility into and management of billions of data points, millions of users, and hundreds of millions of dollars in lifetime value (LTV) and marketing budget. The Kochava platform(s) empowers our customers to see and manage their data and unleash the power of their connected audiences; Globally, Kochava is trusted by the largest brands across a wide spectrum of verticals, including media & entertainment, quick-serve restaurants, e-commerce, gaming, finance and more, to perform high-end marketing analytics.

Our Principal Engineers are both visionary leaders and hands-on builders. As Kochava’s most senior individual contributors, Principal Engineers work on our most challenging problems. Principal Engineers are asked to venture beyond comfortable approaches to pioneer new spaces and inspire others as to what’s possible.

We are looking for architects and hands-on builders who are highly attuned to the technical realities of building and operating high-scale systems for services and data. You should have strong technical judgment and influential skills to facilitate discussions for business-critical designs. The perfect candidate will be able to operate at the executive level as a key technical adviser. They should be able to provide both architectural guidance and detailed technical direction while nurturing a continuous delivery culture.

Ideal candidates can work remotely from one of the following approved US states: California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Montana, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington or Wyoming.

Key job responsibilities as a Principal Software Engineer, you will:

• Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
• Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. You are a visionary leader, builder, and operator.
• Balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience balancing strategic technical direction.
• Experience presenting technical problems/solutions to non-technical executives to influence decisions.
• Track record of creating software systems that scaled to millions of users globally or processed petabytes of data per week.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with one or more of the following tech stacks: VueJS, Go Lang, HTAP, Google Cloud, and Grafana. 
• Experience in the Adtech or Martech industry or experience building high-throughput, low-latency real-time data processing systems.
• Experience driving R&D objectives to create intellectual property (e.g. Patents and Publications). 
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large-scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, distributed processing of massive data sets.

Kochava began in 2011 when a team of mobile and gaming professionals saw the need to better understand the feedback loop of user acquisition, engagement, and LTV for mobile applications. Through the process of creating apps for customers from a wide range of industries, we were repeatedly asked if we could shed some light on what media advertising efforts were converting and the effectiveness of their mobile ad spend by partner. Realizing a solution to these questions wasn’t readily available, we started designing and building a mobile measurement platform that would become Kochava.

Kochava is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion.