# Staff Software Engineer, Ads Measurement & Orchestration

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $191k – $254k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Advertising Apis, Data Ingestion, Data Normalization, Schema Design, Data Aggregation, Identity Resolution, Llm Systems, Model Evaluation, Guardrails, Multi-Touch Attribution, Media Mix Modeling, Causal Inference, Experimentation, Conversion Apis, Deduplication
**Posted:** 2026-08-28

> Leads large-scale advertising data ingestion, measurement, and agentic workflow systems, combining deep ad-tech expertise with production LLM experience. Requires 10+ years of engineering experience and technical and people leadership in complex enterprise environments.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the ingestion and normalization of advertising platform data at scale, handling rate limits, schema drift, backfills, and restated numbers.
- Design aggregation and identity layers that make figures from different advertising platforms comparable.
- Lead development of agentic workflows that parse, interpret, present, and act on performance data.
- Establish correctness and evaluation standards for measurement systems with noisy and partially observable ground truth.
- Partner with product management, design, and engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user and business growth.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including experience as a technical lead or leading other technical leads on complex enterprise software projects.
- Hands-on experience with advertising platform APIs such as Meta, Google, Amazon, or TikTok, or equivalent experience at an advertiser, agency, or DSP.
- Working knowledge of advertising technology data models, including campaign hierarchies, attribution windows, conversion APIs, and cross-source deduplication.
- Familiarity with measurement approaches including multi-touch attribution (MTA), media mix modeling (MMM), incrementality testing, and privacy-preserving aggregation.
- Experience shipping LLM-powered systems to production, including evaluation and guardrails.
- Ability to operate with high ownership in 0-to-1 environments, make pragmatic trade-offs, work with incomplete information, and drive projects from concept through launch and adoption.
- Strong collaboration skills across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with business growth objectives.

## Nice-to-haves
- Technical and people leadership experience, such as serving as a technical lead manager (TLM).
- Experience building or operating measurement infrastructure at a platform, measurement vendor, or large advertiser.
- Background in experimentation or causal inference.

## Compensation
- Local pay range: $190,900–$253,750 USD.
- Total compensation may also include an annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

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