This role sits at the core of Smartly’s data platform, powering the reporting systems that some of the world’s largest and most influential brands rely on to make real time decisions.
You’ll join the Bobby Tables team, which is responsible for ingesting, transforming, and serving tens of billions of data points across global advertising channels. This is the engine behind Smartly’s reporting and cross-channel analytics, turning fragmented, high volume data into a unified, real time, and highly flexible analytical experience.
You’ll design and optimize systems that execute complex queries over massive datasets with low latency, while ensuring reliability and consistency across a constantly evolving ecosystem of advertising channels and 3rd-party integrations. The work involves pushing the limits of distributed data processing, and enabling customers to explore their performance analytics with speed and precision.
Your contributions will directly shape how global brands understand, measure, and act on their advertising performance in real time, at a massive scale.
What You Will Do- Design and build systems that support high-scale reporting and analytics workloads
- Improve OLAP performance and optimize data access patterns across large datasets
- Develop solutions that unify data from multiple external ad channels with varying structures
- Own projects from definition through delivery, ensuring high quality and reliability
- Work with technologies such as Ruby, TypeScript, Kafka, and modern data storage systems (PostgreSQL/Citus, Clickhouse, Redis)
- Mentor engineers and support the team in maintaining a high engineering standard
- Strong experience building and operating data-intensive and high-scale systems
- Experience working with OLAP workloads and query performance optimization
- Must have strong experience with relational databases (such as PostgreSQL, MS SQL, MySQL etc.), experience with ClickHouse or other columnar databases is a plus
- Ability to design systems that handle varying data structures and integrations
- Comfortable working across the stack when needed
- Ability to take ownership of complex problems and drive them to practical solutions
- Clear communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with others
At Smartly, we offer a place where you can advance your career. Here, you'll find:
An Inclusive Global Culture: Join a team of over 750 Smartlies, representing more than 60 nationalities across 24 locations in 13 countries. We cultivate a culture built on trust, transparency, and open feedback, where diverse perspectives are valued and encouraged.
Global Impact: Contribute to a company making a global impact, directly influencing our customers' success and business growth.
Focus on Wellbeing: We prioritize your health with healthcare packages, mental health services, and a commitment to work-life balance through paid holidays and family leave.
Comprehensive Rewards: Benefit from equity options, performance-based rewards, competitive compensation, and career development opportunities.
Flexible Hybrid Workplace: Experience a hybrid work model, balancing office collaboration with remote work, and the option to work abroad for up to 30 days annually.
Apply Now and Build Your Future with Smartly!
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Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers.
Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.
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Skills Required
- Strong experience building and operating data-intensive and high-scale systems
- Experience working with OLAP workloads and query performance optimization
- Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MS SQL, MySQL)
- Experience with ClickHouse or other columnar databases is a plus
- Ability to design systems that handle varying data structures
- Comfortable working across the stack when needed
- Ability to take ownership of complex problems
- Clear communication skills and collaborative approach
What the Team is Saying
Smartly Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Five weeks of paid vacation per year, plus company holidays, sick time, company‑wide recharge days, and a holiday shutdown indicate generous time away from work. Some locations also offer sabbatical or study leave.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision insurance are paired with mental‑health support, FSA availability, and options like pet insurance and transgender healthcare. This breadth points to robust core and ancillary coverage.
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Flexible Benefits — A hybrid/remote setup offers options from office‑assigned to fully remote in supported locations, with short‑term “work from anywhere” programs and a home‑office stipend for fully remote employees. Flexible schedules are also highlighted.
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What We Do
We solve for advertising campaign and creative complexities - both key elements to the time/money savings and performance that brands, agencies and businesses seek. Our unified platform combines media, creative, and intelligence, offering end-to-end workflows powered by AI across the open and closed web. With over 700 brands and advertisers, we've proven that dynamic and personalized creative makes advertising impactful. We are on a mission to transform the advertising experience for brands and their consumers. ⚡️
Why Work With Us
As a fast-paced growth company, we offer opportunities to maximize learning and amplify impact. Our culture and values have always been the secret sauce of our growth. They define how we aspire to build our adtech product, whom we hire and reward, and how we work towards a shared vision. Join us in moving advertising forward.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We are a hybrid workplace where Smartlies have the flexibility of hybrid work combining office and work from home. We also offer programs for short-term remote work globally.
