Posted May 19, 2026
StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels. ## Why this role matters
StackAdapt is expanding into the next generation of AI-powered advertising and marketing execution. As the platform grows across media, email, social, and emerging AI-powered channels, customers need a trusted view of performance across the full customer journey. The Data Delivery team is at the forefront of making this possible. We build the reporting, measurement, planning, billing, API, export, and data-serving systems that help customers trust the data, understand performance, and optimize campaigns. As a Staff Software Engineer I on Data Delivery, you will lead complex technical initiatives across backend systems, with a focus on measurement and planning. You will act as a project and domain DRI for this area: translating product requirements into technical requirements, clarifying feasibility and trade-offs, shaping milestones, identifying risks, and keeping execution moving. You will partner closely with product, engineering, and engineering management to recommend technical options, push back on unrealistic plans when needed, and help the team make sound decisions. Your work will help build the technical foundation for reliable customer-facing insights and make new product capabilities easier to launch and scale. To learn more about StackAdapt’s broader platform vision, watch Yang Han discuss the evolution of StackAdapt’s AI-powered advertising and marketing platform: How AI Advertising Platform StackAdapt Connects Marketers With Agencies - CTO Yang Han
Domain ownership: Act as a project and domain DRI for measurement and planning initiatives within Data Delivery. - Technical planning: Translate product requirements into technical requirements, clarify feasibility and trade-offs, shape milestones, and identify risks early. - Execution leadership: Keep complex initiatives moving by unblocking decisions, coordinating across teams, and giving engineering leadership clear options and recommendations. - Scalable data systems: Build reliable systems that process, organize, and serve large volumes of campaign and marketing data across StackAdapt. - Customer-facing impact: Power reporting, measurement, planning, billing, pacing, exports, APIs, and analytics that customers and internal teams depend on. - System design: Make thoughtful technical decisions that balance correctness, reliability, latency, freshness, cost, and long-term maintainability. - Cross-functional partnership: Work closely with product, engineering, data science, analytics, and business teams to turn product goals into strong technical solutions. - Operational excellence: Improve monitoring, testing, data quality, incident response, and documentation so our systems are easier to trust and operate. - Technical mentorship: Support engineers through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and clear communication of trade-offs. ## What you’ll bring
Backend and data systems experience: Strong experience building scalable services, distributed systems, data platforms, or data-intensive applications. - Project leadership: Experience leading complex technical projects with ambiguous requirements, multiple stakeholders, and meaningful trade-offs. - System design depth: Strong judgment across APIs, data pipelines, databases, distributed systems, observability, reliability, and operational ownership. - Data quality mindset: Ability to reason about correctness, freshness, completeness, consistency, cost efficiency, and customer trust. - Product judgment: Interest in building systems that support customer-facing reporting, measurement, planning, optimization, and analytics. - Technical communication: Ability to explain decisions clearly, align stakeholders, and document important trade-offs. - Mentorship: Experience helping other engineers grow and raising the technical bar of a team. - Technical stack: Strong programming skills; experience with Golang and technologies such as Kafka, TiDB, Redshift, Vitess, Iceberg, StarRocks, or Trino is a plus. - Domain experience: Experience in adtech, marketing technology, reporting, analytics, billing, attribution, planning, or high-volume event processing is a plus. ## What success looks like
You will help Data Delivery build trusted, scalable, and efficient data systems that customers and internal teams rely on to understand performance and make better decisions. In practice, this means:
StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.
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