Senior Software Engineer - Ads Infrastructure - Moloco Commerce Media

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.

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.
• 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.

Pay

• Region A (Menlo Park Office, New York Office, SF Bay Area, New York Metro Area): $188,000—$235,000 USD
• Region B (Seattle Office, Seattle, Los Angeles/Orange County, San Diego, Austin, Boston, Washington DC Metro Area, Miami): $169,200—$211,500 USD
• Region C (All other U.S. locations): $159,800—$199,750 USD