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Our compensation packages consist of salary and equity in one of Seattle’s hottest start-ups, as well as other standard benefits. Most importantly, we provide a really interesting working experience, and the chance to contribute to the success of something great.\nWhat You’ll Be Part Of:\nAd Optimization builds the pipelines and integrations that deliver iSpot's TV and streaming measurement (impressions, conversions, and attribution) to partners such as DSPs, CTV platforms, and ad servers, so advertisers can optimize campaigns in flight. 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You will respond to alerts and incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and keep runbooks current.\nMentor other engineers through code review, pairing, and design feedback.\nUse AI-assisted tools for design, development, testing, and incident work, and verify what they produce.\nQualifications and Education Requirements:\n5+ years of professional software or data engineering experience.\n3+ years building, optimizing, and operating production Apache Spark pipelines in Java or Scala and in Python/PySpark.\n2+ years of production Snowflake experience, including complex SQL transformations, performance and cost tuning (warehouse sizing, clustering, query profiling), and tasks and streams or dynamic tables for scheduled and incremental processing.\n2+ years running data workloads on AWS, including S3 and Spark on Kubernetes (EKS) or EMR.\nProduction experience with Airflow or an equivalent workflow orchestrator.\nAdvanced SQL and relational data modeling.\nExperience building external partner or client data feeds that involve file and API deliveries, identity matching, privacy-sensitive data, and delivery SLAs.\nExperience designing data-quality checks, reconciliation, telemetry, and alerting for batch pipelines, including handling late-arriving data and backfills.\nExperience writing unit and integration tests for data pipelines.\nProduction ownership experience covering CI/CD, releases and rollback, incident response, and root-cause analysis.\nExperience writing and reviewing technical designs and leading small-to-medium engineering projects through production delivery.\nExperience mentoring engineers through code review, pairing, and design feedback.\nExperience using AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly, with appropriate verification for security, correctness, and maintainability.\nPreferred Skills:\nExperience with Snowflake external Iceberg tables and catalog integrations, secure data sharing, or Snowpark (Python).\nExperience with Apache Iceberg and MySQL.\nExperience running Spark on Amazon EKS and Airflow on Amazon MWAA.\nExperience in ad tech or advertising measurement, such as attribution, conversions, audience and impression data, identity matching, or partner optimization feeds.\n\nTarget cash compensation range: $117,688 - $148,289USD Annually\nWe are committed to providing competitive, market-informed compensation.The cash compensation above includes base salary, variable commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, all full time iSpotters are eligible to participate in iSpot’s equity plan to receive stock options. Non-exempt roles will also be eligible for (pre-approved) overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are influenced by different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons.\nFor more information on total rewards package, goHERE\nHybrid & Flexible Workplace Policy\niSpot supports a hybrid and flexible workplace. Depending on location and work responsibilities, employees may be designated as full-time or part-time office-based or a fully remote employee. A hybrid work schedule indicates that you work in the office some days and work from home other days. 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