# Staff Backend Engineer, Ads Platform

**Company:** [Fetch](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fetch)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Backend Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture, API Design, Streaming, Messaging, Caching, Replication, Concurrency, Observability, Performance Optimization, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2026-08-24

> Designs and leads high-throughput, low-latency distributed backend systems powering Fetch’s advertising platform. The role requires deep distributed-systems expertise, production-scale performance and reliability experience, and technical leadership across multiple teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own architecture across critical Ads services, including ad selection, targeting, pacing, delivery, attribution, and measurement.
- Design high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems with appropriate partitioning, caching, consistency, concurrency, and performance strategies.
- Build for reliability, resilience, and operational excellence under partial failures, traffic spikes, and downstream degradation.
- Establish metrics, tracing, SLOs, alerting, structured logging, capacity planning, and incident-response practices.
- Evolve event-driven and data-intensive architectures spanning transactional and non-transactional stores, streaming, messaging, caching, and real-time processing.
- Set backend, reliability, and performance standards adopted by multiple teams.
- Lead refactoring, migration, and system-health initiatives and build reusable infrastructure and patterns.
- Define and deliver multi-quarter technical initiatives across Ads, Platform, Data, and ML.
- Resolve ambiguous reliability, performance, and scalability problems spanning multiple teams.
- Mentor senior engineers, lead technical design reviews, and raise engineering standards.

## Requirements
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems at significant production scale.
- Deep understanding of partitioning, replication, consistency, caching, concurrency, asynchronous processing, failure isolation, and coordination.
- Strong experience diagnosing performance and scaling issues across applications, databases, caches, queues, networks, and infrastructure.
- Expertise in API design, service boundaries, event-driven architectures, streaming, messaging, distributed stores, and caching.
- Experience owning architecture for complex distributed systems, including scalability planning, performance optimization, failure modes, and long-term evolution.
- Experience building highly reliable production systems with comprehensive observability.
- Ability to evaluate tradeoffs involving scalability, reliability, latency, consistency, operational cost, complexity, and developer productivity.
- Ability to translate ambiguous product and technical problems into clear, executable direction.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Full-time role available from US offices or remotely in the United States.

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