Senior Software Engineer

Job summary

Overview The Mic*** Advertising Mediation Service (MMS) is the real-time auction and mediation platform that sits at the heart of Mic***'s advertising stack.

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Qualifications

• Required
• Ability to meet Mic***, customer and/or government security screening
• are required for this role.
• include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
• Mic*** Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Mic*** Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Preferred
• 6+ years of experience building and operating latency-sensitive backend services with strict SLA
• P99 measured in milliseconds, five-nines availability).
• Go — deep production experience, including profiling, GC tuning, concurrency patterns, and performance-sensitive code on the request hot path.
• OpenRTB / programmatic advertising — hands-on experience with header bidding, real-time bidding, mediation, exchanges, SSPs/DSPs, brand safety, or identity/cookie syncing.
• Familiarity with Prebid Server or similar auction platforms.
• Auction systems — experience designing or evolving pricing logic, bidder filtration, dynamic reserve pricing, or floor-price optimization at scale.

Responsibilities

• You will partner closely with engineering leads, PMs, data science, and partner teams across Mic*** Advertising to shape the roadmap, raise the engineering bar, and mentor senior engineers across the org.
• Technical Leadership
• Drive cross-team technical strategy with peer principals across Mic*** Advertising — bidders, supply integrations, brand safety, identity, measurement, and billing.
• Set and enforce engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, technical RFCs, and mentorship of senior and staff-level engineers.
• Identify and resolve systemic risks across reliability, latency, cost, and correctness before they reach production.
• Service & Platform Development
• Design and build highly scalable Go services on the MMS platform, with strict latency and availability SLAs measured in single-digit milliseconds and five nines.
• Evolve the bidder adapter framework to support new supply types (display, native, video) and new integration patterns (server-side header bidding, deal-based, programmatic guaranteed).
• Improve the auction subsystem — pricing, filtration (L1 brand safety, IP blocks, embargoes), bidder selection, and response shaping — with measurable revenue and quality impact.
• Strengthen the experimentation framework (flights, traffic sub-groups) so PMs and data science can ship A/B tests safely at high cadence.
• Improve observability of the request path: structured Event Hub logging, sampling strategies, metrics, and tracing across the bidder fan-out.
• Infrastructure & Cloud

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