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Senior Data Engineer

Washington, DC · On-site

$120K - $163K/yr

At The Washington Post, you'll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative ... Software Development: Write clear, maintainable code, following best practices in version control ...

The Washington Post

Senior Data Engineer

Washington, DC · On-site

$120K - $163K/yr

At The Washington Post, you'll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative ... Software Development: Write clear, maintainable code, following best practices in version control ...

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Software Engineer II, Ad Engineering

The Washington Post

Washington, DC • On-site

$110K - $150K/yr

Full-time

Re-posted 23 days ago

Job description

Job Summary:
The Washington Post is on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America and is hiring a Software Engineer II to join its Ad Engineering team. This role involves developing innovative software that maximizes revenue through digital advertising, working closely with product, business intelligence, and advertising teams.
Responsibilities:
• You'll partner with senior engineers and product managers to build and maintain products that directly drive revenue for The Post.
• You will build best practices for the use of and integration with AI across complex projects and multi-team systems.
• You'll partner with sales and operational experts to build out tools that will make them more effective.
• You'll develop code that will support not only standard ad systems and programmatic, but also our media player experiences and games pages.
• Participate in all stages of software development - from brainstorming and prototyping to designing, implementing, testing, and support.
• Follow engineering best practices and coding standards across a variety of projects.
• Work directly with Product Managers, Designers, Advertising Operations, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into highly performant applications.
• Build and deploy applications on AWS.
• Occasionally influence other teams to accept technology processes or products, requiring detailed explanations or interpretations.
• Communicate with parties within and outside the department, and occasionally with external parties such as customers and vendors.
• Establish, document, maintain, and build on best practices with LLM systems inside our organization.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 2+ years of experience building and delivering highly-performant, customer-facing applications
• Proficiency in modern JavaScript development principles, especially strongly typed systems and architectures
• Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and maintaining systems using AWS services such as ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, and Lambda
• Exposure to DevOps technologies like Docker and CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline
• Experience writing unit tests and integration tests to ensure code quality
• Experience with LLM-based text processing pipelines and ChatGPT-style APIs for AI-powered user experiences
Preferred:
• Familiarity with developing in the digital advertising ecosystem using Prebid, Google Ad Manager, and Prebid Server platforms is desirable but not required
• Experience working with sales teams is a plus
• Experience working on text analysis, especially with regard to safety, is a plus
Company:
Washington Post is a news publishing company that provides insights on topics such as politics, lifestyle, climate, technology, and more. Founded in 1877, the company is headquartered in Washington, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.

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