Senior Software Engineer - Ads Infrastructure - Moloco Commerce Media

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Menlo Park, CA, USA
Hybrid
188K-235K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Cloud • Machine Learning • Mobile • Retail
Moloco empowers businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.
The Role
Design and operate highly available, scalable Commerce Media infrastructure across cloud environments. Build CI/CD, deployment, and configuration-management pipelines; develop observability frameworks; and lead reliability practices including SLOs, capacity planning, incident response, on-call operations, and post-incident reviews. Collaborate with product, data, security, and operations teams to support secure, performant systems and customer SLAs.
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About Moloco:

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media enables retailers and marketplaces to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

The Impact You’ll Be Contributing to Moloco
Help shape the reliability, scalability, and performance of Moloco’s Commerce Media platform, ensuring our customers can run mission-critical retail media and commerce advertising at global scale. In this role, you’ll drive foundational infrastructure and SRE practices that enable product teams to move quickly while maintaining a highly available and secure environment.

The Opportunity
  • Design and evolve highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure for Moloco Commerce Media services across cloud environments.
  • Build and automate resilient CI/CD, deployment, and configuration management pipelines to improve release safety and developer velocity.
  • Develop, refine, and operate observability frameworks (metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards) that provide deep visibility into Commerce Media systems.
  • Champion reliability-focused practices such as SLOs, capacity planning, incident response, and post-incident reviews for critical Commerce Media workloads.
  • Collaborate with product engineering, data, and security teams to architect infrastructure solutions that meet performance, compliance, and customer SLAs.
How Do I Know if the Role is Right For Me?
  • Bring 5 years of professional software engineering or SRE experience, including ownership of production systems at scale in a cloud environment.
  • Operate large-scale distributed systems on public cloud platforms (commonly GCP or AWS) using containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Leverage infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (for example Terraform, Helm, or similar) to define, manage, and version-control infrastructure.
  • Apply strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (such as Go, Java, or Python) to build tools, services, and automation for infrastructure and reliability.
  • Navigate ambiguous, evolving requirements by breaking down complex reliability or scalability problems into iterative, measurable improvements.
  • Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders—such as product engineers, data engineers, and security and operations teams—to align infrastructure choices with Commerce Media business goals.
  • Lead or significantly contribute to incident management, on-call operations, and continuous process improvements that raise the reliability bar for critical customer-facing services.

Compensation & Benefits

U.S.-based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits and perks. U.S.-based employees also receive up to 12 scheduled paid holidays per calendar year and one Thrive Day off per quarter. Additionally, all employees have Flexible Time Off (FTO).

The successful candidate may be eligible for a bonus and equity awards. Eligibility and amounts are determined by performance and the terms of the applicable plans.

The location for this role is listed above. For base pay range purposes, location-based compensation is grouped into the following regions. Your region is determined by your assigned work location.

  • Region A: Menlo Park Office, New York Office, SF Bay Area, New York Metro Area
  • Region B: Seattle Office, Seattle, Los Angeles/Orange County, San Diego, Austin, Boston, Washington DC Metro Area, Miami
  • Region C: All other U.S. locations

Salary Ranges:

Region A:
$188,000$235,000 USD
Region B:
$169,200$211,500 USD
Region C:
$159,800$199,750 USD

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being: 

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives.

Moloco Values: 

  • Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success. 
  • Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible. 
  • Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value. 
  • Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail. 

Additional Resources: 

  • Moloco Company Blog 
  • Moloco Leadership
  • Moloco Newsroom 

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Our interview process is designed to get to know the real you. Unless a round specifically includes AI as part of what's being assessed, we ask that candidates engage without AI assistance. Please review our AI Use in Interviews Policy before your interview to understand what to expect. Failure to comply with this policy may impact your candidacy.

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Skills Required

  • 5 years of professional software engineering or SRE experience
  • Ownership of production systems at scale in a cloud environment
  • Experience operating large-scale distributed systems on public cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform or Helm
  • Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Java, or Python
  • Ability to solve complex reliability and scalability problems under ambiguous, evolving requirements
  • Ability to collaborate with product engineers, data engineers, security, and operations teams
  • Experience leading or significantly contributing to incident management, on-call operations, and continuous process improvements

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The Company
HQ: Redwood City, CA
700 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations of all sizes to grow and unlock the full value of their unique first-party data, elevating the traditional path to performance advertising. While the largest technology companies have proven the speed and scale of ad-targeting utilizing data— the same robust performance powered by machine learning has previously been unavailable beyond their platforms. That's where Moloco steps in. With Moloco's powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, we play a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy, all while allowing companies to stay independent and scale. An industry leader at the nexus of machine learning, performance marketing, and visionary product infrastructure, Moloco is advancing the advertising technology industry. We ranked in the top 10% in the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2023. Recognized as one of 46 leading Cloud Computing companies, receiving the Stratus Award for 2023. In 2023, we received Google’s Cloud DevOps Dreamers Award, a recognition given to companies that are implementing DevOps practices to drive organizational success and high performance. Lastly, Moloco is a 2024 certified Great Place to Work! Check us out on Glassdoor and be sure to get an inside look at working at Moloco on Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube. Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Gurgaon, and Tokyo.

Why Work With Us

Moloco plays a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy. We are a powerful combination of cutting-edge technologies and executive innovators who utilize machine learning to scale business models. At Moloco you’ll work alongside people who are world-class thought leaders and focused on using their superpowers to create real value.

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