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About Moloco:

Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations of all sizes to grow and unlock the full value of their unique first-party data, elevating the traditional path to performance advertising. While the largest technology companies have proven the speed and scale of ad-targeting utilizing data— the same robust performance powered by machine learning has previously been unavailable beyond their platforms.

That's where Moloco steps in. With Moloco's powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, we play a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy, all while allowing companies to stay independent and scale.

An industry leader at the nexus of machine learning, performance marketing, and visionary product infrastructure, Moloco is advancing the advertising technology industry. We ranked in the top 10% of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2023. Recognized as one of 46 leading Cloud Computing companies, receiving the Stratus Award for 2023. In 2023, we received Google’s Cloud DevOps Dreamers Award, a recognition given to companies that are implementing DevOps practices to drive organizational success and high performance. Lastly, Moloco is a 2024-certified Great Place to Work! Check us out on Glassdoor and be sure to get an inside look at working at Moloco on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging will allow us the greatest opportunity to carry out our mission -- to empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

The Impact You'll Be Contributing to Moloco:

At Moloco, we are revolutionizing the digital advertising industry through the power of machine learning. As a Technical Lead within our Cloud Infrastructure team, the successful candidate will play a central role in architecting the future of our high-volume, low-latency services, directly impacting their performance, sustained growth, and most critically, their efficiency at scale. They will be instrumental in defining and championing the multi-cloud architecture necessary to support our ambitious growth objectives and foster a culture of cost-conscious engineering.

If you are excited by the challenge of optimizing complex, global-scale infrastructure and driving significant, strategic change in a company building groundbreaking technology that impacts millions of users worldwide, Moloco is the place for you.

The Opportunity:

This is a critical position within the Moloco Ads Infrastructure team, responsible for the platforms and infrastructure that form the bedrock of the Moloco Ads business. You will be a key technical leader, working closely with business leaders, finance partners, and engineering teams across the organization to strategically evolve our multi-cloud ecosystem.

Specifically, you will:

Technically define, champion, and drive the Moloco Ads multi-cloud architectural roadmap, balancing cost efficiency with flexibility, reliability, and R&D velocity.
Lead strategic engineering initiatives from architecture and design through development and operationalization, with a focus on cloud cost optimization and platform portability.
Own the overall cost efficiency models and approaches, including developing predictive spending models, implementing centralized tools to distribute cost and operational ownership to service teams, and advocating for outsized cost savings through architectural innovation.
Design and advocate for future-state multi-cloud approach, including strategies for managing large datasets, portable platforms, and cloud-agnostic deployment solutions.
Drive the evaluation and adoption of new platforms (proprietary to OSS), bringing a strong conviction on the sequence and approach for workload migration to achieve greater portability and cost efficiency.
Establish multi-cloud telemetry and robust cost analysis frameworks to ensure transparency and empower service owners.
Influence and foster a healthy culture of cost efficiency and technical excellence across engineering teams.

Here is what you need to succeed:

10+ years of hands-on industry experience in software development, with significant focus on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure.
Proven expertise in multi-cloud environments (specifically GCP and AWS), including evaluating platforms, modeling complex cost analysis, and driving architectural decisions across cloud providers.
Deep understanding of Cloud-Specific and Open Source Software (OSS) platforms for large-scale data and compute.
Demonstrated ability to serve as the technical lead for large-scale, multi-quarter engineering efforts influencing strategic direction across the organization.
Extensive experience with cost management, estimation, and reporting for cloud infrastructure, ideally coupled with experience building centralized tooling and processes to support FinOps initiatives.
Strong track record of advocating for and driving architectural changes that deliver significant efficiency gains and cost savings, even in the face of existing practices or pushback.
Experience building the tools and processes that help foster a culture of cost efficiency within large engineering organizations.
A strong conviction and proven experience in driving outsized cost savings through alternate system architectures (e.g., migrating workloads to more cost-effective technologies).

Our Compensation And Benefits (for United States Residents Only)

In accordance with various state laws, the range provided is a reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. We also offer a competitive benefits package.

Base Pay Range:$254,400—$381,600 USD

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives. For an overview of our global benefits, click here.

Moloco Values

Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success.
Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value.
Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail.

Additional Resources:

Equal Opportunity:

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression, and gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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