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Engineering17 days agoHybrid

PubMatic

Principal Software Engineer - Mobile App Monetization

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Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

5-10

Location

Pune, India

Full job description

PubMatic is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead backend development of scalable, low-latency, privacy-safe mobile app monetization systems. The role involves building SSP-DSP RTB workflows, optimizing traffic shaping and QPS, supporting multiple mobile ad formats, and ensuring supply quality and privacy compliance. Requires 5+ years backend experience in mobile advertising or programmatic ad-tech, strong knowledge of mobile signals, ad formats, attribution, privacy laws, and fraud prevention. Must have excellent communication skills and a bachelor's degree in engineering. The position is full-time, hybrid work based in Pune, India. Benefits include healthcare, parental leave, broadband reimbursement, and career growth opportunities.

What you'll do

  • Architect and implement scalable backend services for mobile app monetization
  • Build and optimize SSP-DSP integration workflows for mobile app inventory
  • Design mobile-specific traffic shaping and QPS optimization systems
  • Improve runtime handling for various mobile app ad formats
  • Build buyer/DSP compatibility capabilities for mobile app inventory
  • Develop systems and diagnostics to improve mobile app supply quality
  • Support privacy-aware and attribution-ready mobile app advertising
  • Partner with SDK and integration teams to define signal-quality standards
  • Build diagnostics for mobile app inventory quality and performance
  • Work with DSP Partnerships and Marketplace Quality teams to improve buyer confidence
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to define and execute roadmap for mobile advertising capabilities
  • Champion operational excellence through observability, logging, alerts, and incident response

Requirements

  • Five plus years of backend engineering experience building high-scale, low-latency systems
  • Strong knowledge of mobile app inventory signals and mobile ad formats
  • Understanding of mobile performance advertising concepts and mobile attribution ecosystems
  • Strong knowledge of mobile privacy and compliance constraints including Apple ATT, IDFA, SKAdNetwork, GDPR, CCPA
  • Practical knowledge of mobile supply quality and fraud prevention
  • Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering (CS / IT) or equivalent

Tech stack

mobile app advertisingSSPDSPOpenRTBSDKmediationRTB workflowsQPS optimizationmobile attributionprivacy compliancemobile monetization SDKsserver-side biddingin-app biddingML model-servingSKAdNetworkAppsFlyerAdjustSingularFirebaseUID2.0RampIDPrebid MobileRTBkitheader biddingGitHub CopilotChatGPTClaudeCursorWindsurf

Benefits

Paternity/maternity leaveHealthcare insuranceBroadband reimbursementKitchen with healthy snacks and drinksCatered lunchesCompetitive compensationPerformance-based incentivesStrong career growth opportunities

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