Staff Software Engineer - DevOps Platform

Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global technology and data company that builds verification, optimization, and analytics solutions for the advertising industry and we’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our DevOps Platform team. Do you have the desire and ability to touch everything across the tech stack that has the power to handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second; collect tens of billions of events each day; and evaluate thousands of data-points in real-time all while responding in just a few milliseconds; and process years of videos every hour? Then IAS is the place for you!

As a Staff Software Engineer, DevOps Platform, you will be part of our Engineering Skunkworks/Tiger Team—a specialized group that takes on challenging R&D projects and solves complex, high-impact problems across our applications and infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with Developer Experience and Platform Engineers to enhance tooling, templates, and frameworks while working alongside development teams across Engineering and Data Science.

What you’ll get to do:

• Cut deep into systems in order to drive directly to a resolution and alter the landscape in order to make it possible
• Face a variety of challenges that will allow you to constantly expand your repertoire by always learning new complex systems and skills
• Use your expert knowledge of SDLC, integration and migration in order to improve tooling and processes used by platform teams
• Have extreme ownership of assigned tasks and projects, proactively tackle problems, and suggest resolutions

You should apply if you have most of this experience:

• Bias toward action, backed by the ability to architect and implement solutions from initial commit to 1.0 release
• Extensive experience in writing and debugging applications across local and remote environments
• Strong coding background with Java, Python, or TypeScript (3+ years)
• Expert knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD principles, best practices, Git, and dev tools across multiple languages (Gradle, Maven, Yarn, Python build tools, etc.)
• Deep expertise in containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Hands-on experience with k8s tools: FluxCD, Argo CD, Istio, Karpenter, Grafana stack, Flagger, External Secrets Operator, Helm, Kustomize, Kyverno
• Experience with Apache Spark (PySpark, Java, Spark Scala), particularly in Databricks environments
• 7+ years of overall experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering
• Self-motivated and able to work independently as part of a remote-first team
• Strong experience in Linux administration and configuration (4+ years)
• Experience developing and maintaining Jenkins shared libraries and Jenkinsfiles
• Hands-on experience with AWS (CloudFormation, CDK) and cloud-native deployments
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (Atlantis, Terraform, Terragrunt)

What puts you over the top:

• Experience with MLOps tooling and Data Science workflows

New York/California Applicants: The salary range for this position is $165-185,000 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.

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

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