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This product is present across the globe with major data centres across US, Europe, and APAC.\n\nThe team is responsible for making sure that the product is designed in the most efficient fashion in terms of infrastructure and latency. We handle multi-hundred million dollars of floating revenue annually and this business is growing at a very fast pace year on year.\n\nAn ideal team member would be the one who is fascinated with the scale, wants to work on complex problems, build large-scale distributed systems, wants to make the system more optimized and intelligent, and can own the complete product or parts of the product.\n\nWhy you should join us:\nIf you want to join the mission of making a world of better looking ads.\nIf you want to take ownership of large scale systems.\nIf you want to work with a huge amount of data and make billions of decisions daily with sub-millisecond latency.\nIf you want to work on global products spanned across the globe. 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