Job Description

Through our publishers, Sovrn Holdings reaches over 200 million people every day, generating over 10 billion HTTP requests daily. These requests must be processed in low milliseconds and result in several petabytes of data on a monthly basis. The exciting technical problems we solve require a world class team and engineering culture to deliver against our mission. As a Principal Engineer on Sovrn’s application team you will drive solutions and architecture across our exchange. You should have experience and interest with building high volume, low latency applications, moving data through our lambda architecture data pipeline and working with data science to optimize machine learning models. The fast paced and complex industry coupled with tight SLAs require our applications to push the boundaries of performance and scalability. You will play a key role in defining and implementing our next generation stack which is key to our success.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience designing, implementing projects in a distributed, highly scalable and performant environment using Java.
• Track record of significant contributions to projects in a distributed, highly scalable environment.
• A solid foundation with concurrency, non blocking IO, data structures, algorithms
• Strong knowledge of web and internet fundamentals
• Experience in breaking up monoliths into microservices (or equivalent)
• Experience coaching other engineers into leads and mentoring more junior engineers
• Excellent Java development and design experience
• Excel in a fast paced agile development environment
• Source control (GitHub, svn, etc)
• Build and deployment tools (GoCD, Maven, grunt, etc)
• Development experience on Linux/POSIX platforms
• Proficient with persistence stores: Relational, Aerospike/Redis, NoSQL, etc....
• Extensive experience with monitoring for highly observable code: StatsD, Graphite, etc..
• Strong experience with full SDLC
• Articulate; excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong experience with multi-threaded, parallel processing
• B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

Bonus Points

• Advertising industry experience
• Working familiarity with Javascript

Position Reports to: Sr. Director Applications Engineering