About the job

Title: Senior Software Engineer – Ad Tech
Location: Remote / Hybrid (periodic NYC office collaboration)
Type: Full-Time

The Role:

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and optimize scalable, real-time systems that power Symitri’s privacy-first ad targeting and audience modeling capabilities. You’ll help build the foundation for a high-performance platform capable of processing billions of daily ad requests, supporting programmatic buying, predictive inference, and privacy-centric data flows. This is a hands-on engineering role in a fast-paced environment—ideal for someone who thrives on performance tuning and system design at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Software Engineering & System Architecture

• Design and build low-latency, high-throughput systems for programmatic ad delivery
• Develop scalable microservices and APIs to support real-time bidding (RTB) workflows
• Ensure system reliability, fault-tolerance, and high availability across production environments

Ad Tech Integration & Optimization

• Implement and improve RTB mechanics, auction logic, and bid prediction models
• Build and maintain data pipelines for campaign metrics, audience signals, and conversion tracking
• Build toward integrating with DSPs, SSPs, DMPs, and CDPs for real-time data activation, measurement and optimization across the programmatic supply-chain

 
Performance Tuning & Analytics

• Monitor and improve response times, throughput, and reliability using real-time analytics
• Implement inference models, machine learning and predictive modeling techniques to improve targeting, budget allocation, and campaign effectiveness
• Ensure data integrity and consistency across high-volume streaming architectures
  

 
Collaboration & Team Leadership

• Partner with product managers to define and deliver technical solutions that align with business goals
• Collaborate with data science and platform teams to deploy inference models and optimize performance
• Lead code reviews, contribute to system design discussions, and mentor junior engineers

 
What You’ll Bring to Symitri

• 5+ years of software development experience in distributed, high-scale systems
• Deep knowledge of programmatic advertising and ad tech protocols (OpenRTB, DSP/SSP/CDP/DMP stacks)
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Scala, or Golang
• Experience with containerized infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and streaming data tools (Kafka, Spark, Flink)
• Strong understanding of database systems (Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, BigQuery)
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex system issues in production environments

 
Nice to Have

• Experience working with ML inference models in production
• Exposure to digital ad auction theory, bid optimization, or reinforcement learning
• Familiarity with data privacy standards (GDPR, US State regs) and privacy-preserving data techniques

 
What Success Looks Like

• You deliver performant, scalable services that handle real-time traffic under load
• Your code and architectural choices elevate system reliability and maintainability
• You’re trusted across engineering and product teams as a technical problem-solver
• You help evolve Symitri’s ad platform to support cutting-edge targeting and analytics

 
Working at Symitri

At Symitri, you’ll find the freedom to experiment, the support to grow, and the challenge of solving real problems in the fast-moving digital advertising industry. We’re a mission-driven team with deep expertise across advertising, data, and privacy — and we’re building for impact without compromising on principles.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary + equity
• Remote flexibility with NYC collaboration
• Excellent health, dental, vision, and wellness perks
• A team that values candor, craft, and accountability

 
Compensation: $180,000 to $243,000

Compensation at Symitri is based on a range of factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications and worksite location. Final offers may vary from the listed range and are determined through a structured evaluation process to ensure equity and consistency.

About the job

Title: AI Software Engineer
Location: Remote / Hybrid (periodic NYC office collaboration)
Type: Full-Time

The Role:

We’re looking for an AI Software Engineer to help power the future of privacy-centric digital advertising. You’ll build and deploy agentic systems and inference models that drive better outcomes for advertisers without compromising user privacy. This role sits at the intersection of data science, AI, and ad tech—and is ideal for someone excited by real-time systems, vector databases, LLMs, and RAG pipelines.

Key Responsibilities:

AI Development & Deployment

• Build and optimize AI agents that interface with databases, data lakes, and vector embeddings
• Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems using LangChain and LLMs
• Design supervised/unsupervised models for targeting, clustering, and cohort creation
• Apply NLP for use cases like classification, sentiment analysis, and entity recognition

System Integration & Strategy

• Collaborate with engineering and product to integrate AI into programmatic buying platforms
• Develop agents to analyze campaign and audience data to improve targeting, ROAS, and client outcomes
• Contribute to Symitri’s long-term AI roadmap and innovation agenda

Collaboration & Evangelism

• Translate complex tech into practical use cases for product, marketing, and client teams
• Participate in code reviews, documentation, and team-wide AI knowledge-sharing
• Represent Symitri in thought leadership and industry discussions around AI in ad tech

What You’ll Bring to Symitri

• 3+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, LangChain, vector DBs, and RAG techniques
• Familiarity with Azure (Synapse, ML Compute, Data Factory)
• Python proficiency (plus Scala or JS is a bonus)
• Experience with NLP libraries (spaCy, NLTK, transformerX) and matrix factorization libraries (NumPy, SciPy, and PyTorch)

Tech Stack & Tools You’ll Use

• Languages: Python (required), Scala or JavaScript (bonus)
• Frameworks & Libraries: TensorFlow or PyTorch, LangChain, spaCy, NLTK
• Data Tools: Redis, NoSQL DBs, MLFlow, Azure ML, vector databases
• Cloud & Infra: Azure Synapse, Data Factory, AML Compute

Nice to Have

• Experience optimizing RTB algorithms or audience modeling in a programmatic ad stack
• Familiarity with bidstream analysis, taxonomy classification, and cohort expansion
• Understanding of privacy-preserving ML, clean rooms, and data governance principles

What Success Looks Like

• You’ve shipped AI agents that drive measurable improvements in ad targeting and ROAS
• Your models are performant, explainable, and scalable across campaign types
• You’re a go-to collaborator across engineering, product, and marketing
• You help shape the roadmap for Symitri’s AI-driven future

Working at Symitri

At Symitri, you’ll find the freedom to experiment, the support to grow, and the challenge of solving real problems in the fast-moving digital advertising industry. We’re a mission-driven team with deep expertise across advertising, data, and privacy — and we’re building for impact without compromising on principles.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary + equity
• Fully remote flexibility (with NYC team collaboration)
• Excellent health, dental, vision, and wellness perks
• A team that values candor, craft, and accountability

Compensation: $190,000 to $245,000

Compensation at Symitri is based on a range of factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications and worksite location. Final offers may vary from the listed.

About the job

Title: Senior Sales Engineer – AdTech & Programmatic
Location: Remote / Hybrid (periodic NYC office collaboration)
Type: Full-Time

The Role

We’re seeking a Senior Sales Engineer to lead technical pre-sales strategy and solution delivery for a complex, performance marketing technology solution designed for programmatic advertisers and publishers. This role supports Symitri’s commercial partnerships, including direct clients (advertisers, agencies, publishers) and full-stack programmatic technology platforms (SSPs, DSPs). You’ll bridge technical depth with business acumen—driving integrations, enabling client success, and amplifying Symitri’s value proposition through data, performance, and privacy alignment.

Key Responsibilities

Client Engagement & Sales Support

• Partner with sales and account leaders to close deals and grow key relationships
• Drive adoption of Symitri’s capabilities by managing client onboarding, training, and technical support
• Align product capabilities with client-specific use cases, workflows, and implementation plans
• Build POVs and proofs of performance to demonstrate the value of Symitri’s private audience activation, inference models and performance optimizations

Optimization & Performance Analysis

• Monitor KPIs (e.g., fill rate, CPMs, bid rates, latency) to surface opportunities for improvement
• Analyze log-level data and performance trends to inform targeting or deal configuration
• Troubleshoot delivery, measurement, or integration issues across supply-chain partners

Internal Collaboration & Product Feedback

• Act as the technical liaison between clients, sales, engineering, and product teams
• Document best practices and contribute to internal playbooks for technical success
• Provide input into Symitri’s product roadmap, pricing strategy and sales/BD approach based on client and partner feedback and use-case gaps

What You’ll Bring to Symitri

• 5+ years in ad tech sales engineering, technical account management, or programmatic ad operations leadership
• Deep knowledge of openRTB, header bidding (Prebid.js / Prebid Server), and ad server APIs (GAM, Amazon TAM, Xandr)
• Experience troubleshooting delivery, measurement, and auction dynamics across CTV and display
• Ability to articulate complex technical systems to non-technical audiences
• Familiarity with Hubspot or CRM tools for sales tracking and reporting
• Comfortable with scripting/debugging tools (Chrome DevTools, Postman, log parsers)

Nice to Have

• Exposure to AI-powered advertising tools and data science collaboration
• Experience working with identity graphs, clean rooms, or privacy-enhancing technologies
• Background in media planning, brand-side tech stacks, or agency trading desks

What Success Looks Like

• Clients and partners view you as a trusted, solution-oriented technical resource
• You unblock complex integrations and surface new revenue opportunities
• Symitri’s platform adoption grows through your influence and hands-on engagement
• Your insights shape the way we sell, integrate, and evolve the product

Working at Symitri

At Symitri, you’ll find the freedom to experiment, the support to grow, and the challenge of solving real problems in the fast-moving digital advertising industry. We’re a mission-driven team with deep expertise across advertising, data, and privacy — and we’re building for impact without compromising on principles.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary + equity
• Remote flexibility
• Excellent health, dental, vision, and wellness perks
• A team that values candor, craft, and accountability

Compensation: $130,000 to $167,000

Compensation at Symitri is based on a range of factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications and worksite location. Final offers may vary from the listed range and are determined through a structured evaluation process to ensure equity and consistency.

About the job

Title: Senior Technical Operations Manager – Programmatic AdTech [TRUSTX]
Location: Remote / Hybrid (periodic NYC office collaboration)
Type: Full-Time

About TRUSTX

In 2024, Symitri acquired TRUSTX an omni-channel, premium supply-side platform (SSP) backed by the world’s most trusted news, sports, lifestyle and entertainment media brands. Since 2016, TRUSTX has been on a mission to restore trust, transparency, and sustainability to programmatic advertising. With TRUSTX, advertisers gain clarity and confidence in media sourcing, and publishers earn revenue that reflects the quality of their content and audiences.

The Role

We’re seeking a Senior Technical Operations Manager to lead day-to-day programmatic execution, technical partner integrations, and data-driven performance optimization across the TRUSTX premium programmatic marketplace. You’ll serve as the market’s operational and technical backbone—partnering with publishers, buyers, and internal teams to ensure seamless campaign delivery and marketplace success.

If you’re passionate about clean supply paths, high-integrity inventory monetization, and programmatic operational excellence, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

Programmatic Tech Ops & Optimization

• Oversee implementation, troubleshooting, and optimization of programmatic campaigns across display, video, mobile, and CTV ad formats
• Tune auction dynamics across open market and deal ID (PMP and PG) campaigns
• Analyze bid density, latency, fill rates, and other KPIs to drive continuous marketplace improvements

Partner & Platform Integration

• Manage technical relationships with DSPs, verification vendors, curation partners and third-party measurement providers
• Ensure compliance with technical standards (openRTB, ads.txt, sellers.json, Prebid) and privacy regulations (GDPR and US State regs)

Client Success & Support

• Serve as a technical resource for top-tier publishers, advertiser and agency partners
• Provide onboarding, QA, and consultation to maximize campaign delivery and yield
• Translate technical issues into actionable recommendations for internal and external stakeholders

Leadership & Process Improvement

• Act as a bridge between sales, operations, and product teams, ensuring alignment on strategic initiatives.
• Develop and document best practices, playbooks, and automation tools to enhance operational efficiency.
• Lead troubleshooting sessions and provide internal training on RTB, header bidding, and ad serving dynamics.

Internal Leadership & Process Development

• Lead troubleshooting and war room sessions for complex issues
• Document best practices, playbooks, and automation tools to scale operational impact
• Collaborate across sales, product, and data teams to ensure alignment on delivery goals and to evolve TRUSTX’s SSP infrastructure and feature sets

What You’ll Bring to TRUSTX

• 5+ years of programmatic operations (SSP/DSP preferred) tech roles
• Expertise in OpenRTB, header bidding (Prebid.js, Prebid Server), and ad server integrations (GAM, Amazon TAM, Xandr)
• Strong troubleshooting skills using APIs, SQL, and tools like Chrome DevTools, Charles Proxy, Grafana, or Postman
• Familiarity with ad verification (IAS, HUMAN, DoubleVerify), viewability standards, and log-level analysis
• Clear communicator who can work across engineering, sales, and partner teams

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of CTV auction dynamics and SSAI stitching environments
• Experience with data privacy compliance and secure data transmission protocols
• Passion for supply-path transparency, optimization and sustainable media monetization

What Success Looks Like

• Campaigns run cleanly, efficiently, and with measurable uplift in KPIs
• Publishers and media buyers see you as a trusted technical partner
• TRUSTX’s infrastructure evolves based on your insights and operational leadership
• Internal teams rely on your clarity, accountability, and execution under pressure

Working at Symitri on the TRUSTX exchange

At Symitri, you’ll find the freedom to experiment, the support to grow, and the challenge of solving real problems in the fast-moving digital advertising industry. We’re a mission-driven team with deep expertise across publishing, programmatic tech, and media ethics — and we’re building for impact without compromising on principles.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary + equity
• Remote flexibility
• Excellent health, dental, vision, and wellness perks
• A team that values candor, craft, and accountability

Compensation: $130,000 to $168,000

Compensation at Symitri is based on a range of factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications and worksite location. Final offers may vary from the listed range and are determined through a structured evaluation process to ensure equity and consistency.

About the job

Title: Project Manager – AdTech Software Development
Location: Remote / Hybrid (periodic NYC office collaboration)
Type: Full-Time

The Role

We’re looking for a Project Manager to oversee complex software development projects that drive the future of privacy-centric advertising. You’ll collaborate with engineering, product, and operations to keep development efforts on track, remove roadblocks, and drive execution across multiple teams. This role is ideal for a highly organized communicator with experience in ad tech, Agile workflows, and remote-first environments.

Key Responsibilities

Project Ownership & Execution

• Manage full lifecycle of software development projects across Symitri’s ad tech platforms
• Translate product goals into clear timelines, sprints, and actionable milestones
• Maintain a clean, prioritized backlog and ensure roadmap alignment with stakeholders

Agile Process & Team Coordination

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives
• Collaborate with engineers to scope projects, plan sprints, and track velocity
• Champion Agile and DevOps best practices to drive continuous improvement
• Assist in managing resource allocation and release planning

Cross-Functional Communication

• Align product, engineering, and operations around shared project goals
• Clearly communicate progress, risks, and priorities to stakeholders across the business
• Maintain project documentation to foster transparency and accountability, and to foster clear communication across teams

What You’ll Bring to Symitri

• 3–5 years of experience as an engineering Project Manager in ad tech or digital advertising
• Strong grasp of Agile and Scrum methodologies (ScrumMaster certification a plus)
• Experience with display and CTV workflows, DSP/SSP integrations, and openRTB systems
• Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps culture, and SDLC processes
• Excellent organizational, communication, and prioritization skills
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Lucid, Airtable, and timeline management tools

Nice to Have

• Experience managing technical teams in a distributed or hybrid environment
• Background in advertising APIs, identity resolution, and digital ad measurement
• Ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences

What Success Looks Like

• You consistently deliver projects on time and in scope, even across shifting priorities
• Engineering and product teams rely on you to unblock issues and keep momentum high
• You maintain tight alignment across product, engineering, and executive stakeholders
• You raise the bar for transparency, organization, and delivery discipline at Symitri

Working at Symitri

At Symitri, you’ll find the freedom to experiment, the support to grow, and the challenge of solving real problems in the fast-moving digital advertising industry. We’re a mission-driven team with deep expertise across advertising, data, and privacy — and we’re building for impact without compromising on principles.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary + equity
• Remote flexibility with NYC and LA collaboration
• Excellent health, dental, vision, and wellness perks
• A team that values candor, craft, and accountability

Compensation: $130,000 to $168,000

Compensation at Symitri is based on a range of factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications and worksite location. Final offers may vary from the listed range and are determined through a structured evaluation process to ensure equity and consistency.