Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a leading global media measurement and optimization platform that delivers the industry’s most actionable data to drive superior results for the world’s largest advertisers, publishers, and media platforms. IAS’s software provides comprehensive and enriched data that ensures ads are seen by real people in safe and suitable environments, while improving return on ad spend for advertisers and yield for publishers. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality. For more information, visit integralads.com.

As a *Principal Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and expertise to help build ad verification, analytics, and ad fraud solutions that deliver on the team’s mission of helping advertisers understand the quality of the ad opportunities they’re acquiring. Our team provides the tools that advertisers need to maximize their ROI by displaying the recommended targets for their investments.

The ideal candidate has a track record of architecting and building end-to-end software solutions, enjoys working in a collaborative and agile environment, and brings innovative solutions to complex problems with a desire to improve the status quo. 

(*Please note: at IAS, Principal Engineer is an IC6 level position. Qualified applicants will have previously achieved IC6 or at least IC5- Senior Staff Level role)

What you’ll do:

  • Architect, design, build and integrate our core ad analytics and ad fraud products end to end 

  • Lead the entire software lifecycle including hands-on development, code reviews, testing, deployment, and documentation, in addition to mentoring the team

  • Partner with the Product team and other stakeholders across the company to understand product requirements, gather business and technical requirements from broadcaster clients, and research and develop solutions, including API development

  • Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, exciting, collaborative environment

  • Build and maintain high-performance, fault-tolerant and scalable distributed systems that can handle our massive scale

  • Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)

  • Automate cloud infrastructure, services, and observability

  • Develop CI/CD pipelines and testing automation

  • Establish and uphold best engineering practices through thorough code and design reviews and improved processes

  • Groom junior engineers through mentoring and delegation

Who you are and what you have:

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, or related STEM degree

  • 12-15+ years of hands-on software development experience

  • Solid overall programming skills, able to write modular, maintainable code in Java/Python & SQL

  • Expert understanding of SQL, dimensional modeling, and at least one relational database including solid contribution to ERD

  • Solid proficiency with automation frameworks/tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, and Cloudformation (or Terraform)

  • Solid Proficiency with containers and infrastructure-as-code fundamentals

  • Solid Proficiency with Amazon Web Services

  • Good Understanding of Data Engineering and related frameworks

  • Good Understanding of front end frameworks like ReactJS/AngularJS

  • Familiarity with MVC, SOA, Restful Web services

What puts you over the top:

  • Experience working with Databricks

  • Prior experience in an external client and/or vendor facing role

  • Experience with managing, leading and/or mentoring a development team 

  • Experience with big data and data pipelines

  • Experience working with audio or video technology

  • Experience in AdTech

 

New York Applicants: The salary range for this position is $208,600 - $357,600. Actual pay may vary based on experience or geographic location.

About Integral Ad Science

Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a leading global media measurement and optimization platform that delivers the industry’s most actionable data to drive superior results for the world’s largest advertisers, publishers, and media platforms. IAS’s software provides comprehensive and enriched data that ensures ads are seen by real people in safe and suitable environments, while improving return on ad spend for advertisers and yield for publishers. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality. For more information, visit integralads.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

IAS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to our diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age. We strongly encourage women, people of color, members of the LGBTQIA community, people with disabilities and veterans to apply.

California Applicant Pre-Collection Notice:

We collect personal information (PI) from you in connection with your application for employment or engagement with IAS, including the following categories of PI: identifiers, personal records, commercial information, professional or employment or engagement information, non-public education records, and inferences drawn from your PI. We collect your PI for our purposes, including performing services and operations related to your potential employment or engagement. For additional details or if you have questions, contact us at compliance@integralads.com.

To learn more about us, please visit http://integralads.com/ 

Attention agency/3rd party recruiters: IAS does not accept any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles. If you are interested in becoming an IAS recruiting partner, please send an email introducing your company to recruitingagencies@integralads.com. We will get back to you if there's interest in a partnership.

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