\nWe are Quantcast. A global Demand Side Platform (DSP) powered by AI. Rooted in our DNA is a strong foundation of measurement and consumer analytics, enabling us to empower marketers to reach audiences and achieve measurable advertising outcomes across the Open Web. \n\n\nSince 2006, Quantcast has consistently set the industry standard by introducing groundbreaking initiatives such as the first measurement platform for digital publishers and the first AI-powered DSP. If you're prepared to be part of an enthusiastic team that crafts cutting-edge solutions, then Quantcast is the ideal place for you.\n\n\nYou will be responsible for the next generation of tools supporting monitoring & alerting, incident response, and orchestration at Quantcast. This extends from off-the-shelf tools such as Veneur, Prometheus, and Pagerduty, to custom application and pipeline orchestration environments and large Kubernetes installations.\n\n\n\nAs a Staff Engineer on the team, you will have the opportunity to:\n* Solve complex technical and/or business problems that are both sizable and ambiguous, defining the solution strategy and manage the day-to-day tactical execution of that strategy.\n* Design systems that are elegant and simple, reducing technical debt while providing a strong foundation for future development.\n* Actively mentor more junior engineers, participate in cross-team design, and ensure operational excellence.\n* As a Software Engineer with a focus on Platform Reliability, you care about the health and maintainability of our systems and the velocity of the engineering organization. You write code, architect, and design systems to improve automation throughout our technology stack.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n* Ability to work on several large projects with multiple dependencies across teams.\n* Mentor and develop the members of your team from a technical perspective.\n* Design and implement a secure and reliable logging and monitoring infrastructure using modern, scalable tools.\n* Develop custom dashboards, alerts, and data visualizations to provide real-time insights into our systems' health and performance.\n* Collaborate with engineering teams to identify areas for improvement in our systems and processes.\n* Monitor system performance, diagnose problems, and implement solutions.\n* Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices in observability tools as well as container orchestration solutions.\n\n\n\nQualifications:\n* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a minimum of 5+ years experience developing and working on highly scalable infrastructure as a Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer.\n* Hands-on experience with programming languages such as; Python, Shell Scripting, Go, or similar languages.\n* Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry and its implementation in various programming languages.\n* Experience with Elasticsearch and Grafana, including building dashboards, creating alerts, and data visualizations.\n* Experience with Veneur, Fluentd, and Kubernetes is preferred.\n* Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS preferred).\n\n\n\n\n\nThe expected base salary range for this position is $191,300 to $258,700.\n\n\n#LI-AC1\n\n\nUltimately, in determining your offer, we will take into consideration your geographic location, relevant experience and expertise, and other job-related factors. Furthermore, full-time roles are eligible for a bonus, equity, and benefits (depending on your location) which include hybrid work, vacation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and retirement plans. Please see our Careers page for additional information.\n\n\nFounded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, Quantcast has employees in 18 offices across 10 countries. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone can be their authentic self. We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.\n\n\nRecognizing the importance of flexible work environments, Quantcast operates in a hybrid work model. This model gives employees the opportunity to work from home two days a week and work in the office for team collaboration for the remainder of the time. Our hybrid model may differ based on location or team, so please consult with your hiring manager for further information. All hybrid employees can also work remotely for two weeks each year or, if eligible, apply for our fully remote work program. We strongly encourage vaccination for all Quantcast employees as a way to stop the spread of COVID and protect yourself and others. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, CA

\nQuantcast’s new Seattle office is looking for awesome engineers interested in solving juicy technical challenges. We’re a successful pre-IPO big-data company building our next-generation analytics engine that empowers our customers by improving the way they understand their audiences. Quantcast receives millions of data points per second and is aiming to turn that stream into immediately available and actionable insights for our customers. Quantcast pioneered internet audience measurement and is now looking to revolutionize the field again. As an engineer on the Seattle team, you’ll help design and build systems that produce industry-changing analytics and enable our customer to work with us in new ways. Processing petabytes of data per day, devising new ways of understanding the data, and scaling out the systems to support internet-scale audiences are just some of the challenging problems you’ll tackle. To accomplish this, you’ll be joining a team of startup veterans and senior engineers that will make this ambitious vision a market-changing reality.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* Launch, iterate, and have end-to-end impact on our new high-visibility product\n\n* Solve complex big-data problems in a highly-scalable and maintainable way\n\n* Work with customers to implement improvements in a lightweight agile environment\n\n* Establish office culture as a founding member of the Seattle team\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Developer and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $130,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nCluster Interfaces is responsible for all of the entry points into Quantcast’s big data services. We develop a dashboard through which data pipelines are scheduled and executed.  The dashboard provides a holistic view into the company’s data pipelines, including their dependency trees, capacity needs, and execution times. It also allows users to define data retention policies, monitoring, and alerting. The dashboard is similar to the open source project Azkaban.\n\nThe team also develops and operates a SQL-On-MapReduce platform along with a data catalog. Quantcast’s SQL-On-MapReduce platform is very similar to Hive, providing company wide easy access to our core data assets.\n\nCluster Interfaces is looking for an individual to drive improvements to the systems used to schedule, debug and analyze map/reduce pipelines while facilitating the management of shared cluster resources and capacity planning.\nModernize the front-ends of these internal web-services using state of the art javascript frameworks, implement testing best practices, and develop rich service oriented APIs.  \n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Consolidate the interfaces to Quantcast’s massive compute cluster\n\n* Design rich data-visualizations to aid with analysis and resource management tasks\n\n* Mentor and grow team members\n\n* Work to understand the needs of customers in order to serve them better\n\n* Contribute to the technical roadmap of the team\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad and JavaScript jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $130,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nCluster Interfaces is responsible for all of the entry points into Quantcast’s big data services. We develop a dashboard through which data pipelines are scheduled and executed.  The dashboard provides a holistic view into the company’s data pipelines, including their dependency trees, capacity needs, and execution times. It also allows users to define data retention policies, monitoring, and alerting. The dashboard is similar to the open source project Azkaban.\n\nThe team also develops and operates a SQL-On-MapReduce platform along with a data catalog. Quantcast’s SQL-On-MapReduce platform is very similar to Hive, providing company wide easy access to our core data assets.\n\nCluster Interfaces is looking for an individual to drive improvements to the systems used to schedule, debug and analyze map/reduce pipelines while facilitating the management of shared cluster resources and capacity planning.\nModernize the front-ends of these internal web-services using state of the art javascript frameworks, implement testing best practices, and develop rich service oriented APIs.  \n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Consolidate the interfaces to Quantcast’s massive compute cluster\n\n* Design rich data-visualizations to aid with analysis and resource management tasks\n\n* Mentor and grow team members\n\n* Work to understand the needs of customers in order to serve them better\n\n* Contribute to the technical roadmap of the team\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad and JavaScript jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $130,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nCluster Interfaces is responsible for all of the entry points into Quantcast’s big data services. We develop and operate a SQL-On-MapReduce platform along with a data catalog.  Quantcast’s SQL-On-MapReduce platform is very similar to Hive, providing company wide easy access to our core data assets.\n\nThe team also develops a dashboard through which data pipelines are scheduled and executed. The dashboard provides a holistic view into the company’s data pipelines, including their dependency trees, capacity needs, and execution times. It also allows users to define data retention policies, monitoring, and alerting. The dashboard is similar to the open source project Azkaban.\n\nQuantcast is looking for a person that can lead and develop our own SQL-On-MapReduce solution. It leverages Facebook’s Presto framework and Quantcast’s custom MapReduce to process ~80 PB per month. In addition to driving our SQL-On-MapReduce language development, you will work on our data catalog similar to HCatalog and our pipeline scheduler (similar to Azkaban) to make SQL-On-MapReduce scripts easy to use and deploy.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Research and make decisions on the future path of the platform\n\n* Design, implement features, as well as optimize and debug SQL-On-MapReduce jobs\n\n* Mentor and grow team members\n\n* Advise users across multiple teams\n\n* Improve SQL-On-MapReduce as both an ad-hoc query platform and alternative language for writing Map/Reduce jobs\n\n* Work closely with cluster and operations teams\n\n* Work with various languages and really big data\n\n* Participate in a light on-call rotation\n\n* Contribute not only to the team roadmap, but also to the vision of big data services at Quantcast\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $130,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nAnalytics at Quantcast is driven by sorting, slicing and reorganizing petabytes of data daily to gain insights into audiences across the web and mobile apps.  The Interactive Query team is developing real time analytics expertise to complement our batch processing platforms—one of the largest in the world—as we drive value for our business.\n\nThe team’s long-term vision is to develop a data store and query platform built on the fundamental atoms of data Quantcast uses to train models, build demographic profiles, and target advertising in real time.  This platform will provide faster and richer analytics for our advertising and publisher clients while helping us efficiently scale our product offerings.\n\nIn this position, you will work independently and as part of a team to design, implement, and operate interactive query systems that ingest large amounts of data in near real time and enable queries at web speed.  You will work across teams and with our customers to understand the requirements and design trade offs for these services.  You will be a critical member of a team that redefines how modeling and analytics are done in the Ad Tech industry.  \n\n\n* Work with open source realtime data processing technologies and NoSQL stores\n\n* Build sophisticated RESTful services\n\n* Implement ETL jobs using our map/reduce infrastructure\n\n* Build real-time data flow and aggregation pipelines\n\n* Solve challenging scalability, performance and operational problems\n\n* Drive the vision of the team and Big Data Services at Quantcast\n\n* Mentor other engineers on the team and assist in recruiting efforts\n\n* Develop and drive the architecture of our interactive query platform\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, NoSQL and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nQuantcast seeks distributed systems enthusiasts, networking diehards, and performance aficionados to join our Edge Services team!\n\nThis tight-knit group of cavaliers is tasked with conquering the vast Internet badlands as they develop and maintain Quantcast's high-performance network edge--a world-class, globally-distributed data infrastructure that handles peak loads of 2 million requests per second -- each served in milliseconds.\n\nSystems engineers on the Edge Services team are serious about building & running high-throughput, low-latency systems. Whether it's replacing your predecessor with a shell script or debugging kernel locks, you will bring out every drop of performance and reliability to let everyone sleep well at night.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Engineer and operate solutions for automation, configuration management, deployment, software troubleshooting, system troubleshooting, etc.\n\n* Innovate with new designs and optimizations to enhance the performance of existing infrastructure\n\n* Create and operate mission-critical monitoring/measurement and alarm/alert systems\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $125,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n