Staff Engineer I, Data Engineering

Posted:
3/5/2026, 3:03:56 AM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ Los Angeles, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Position Summary

Role and Responsibilities

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE

Company:           SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC.

Position Title:   Staff Engineer I, Data Engineering

Location:            Los Angeles, CA

Job ID:                 SAM9441238

Position Responsibilities:

Play a leadership role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our advertising technology platform. Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain robust and efficient infrastructure solutions. Manage and lead the technical strategy and vision for Samsung Ads infrastructure, alerting & monitoring, provisioning, networking, and development tooling in collaboration with other engineering teams. Ensure that the Samsung Ads platform services are designed, implemented, deployed, and operated such that they are highly available, highly performing, and scalable. Design, Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery and deployment processes. Evaluate and benchmark new solutions, establishing capacity and growth plans. Administration of built in-house or external vendors services. Lead and support a medium-sized team of software engineers working on building the next generation of administrative interfaces, ad decisioning, delivery, data processing and analytics systems. Contribute to global SRE practices. Develop and maintain strong understanding of distributed systems and client server architectures, distributed multi-datacenter 24/7 web systems and expertise in managing Cloud and Kubernetes native

applications. Perform on-call duties for production systems. Build deep knowledge in software defined networking and routing, Linux system administration, and approach it from the perspective of a software engineer. Manage configuration management systems, including implementing deployment and configuration strategies for new services, provisioning resources, and go-live.

Position Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and ten (10) years of progressive and post-baccalaureate experience as a Staff Engineer I, Data Engineering or related occupation. Must have ten (10) years of experience in the following skills: (1) managing Cloud and Kubernetes native applications; (2) managing CI/CD pipelines; (3) experience with distributed systems and client server architectures; (4) experience in configuration management systems, distributed multi-datacenter 24/7 web systems; (5) experience with working in a micro services environment; and (6) experience in Linux system administration and troubleshooting, knowledge of how various components work, including kernel, CPU, memory, disk and network. Partial telecommuting permitted; employees will be required to report to office multiple days per week.

Hours: Full Time, 40 hours/week. Salary Range: $184,558 /year to $ 259,000 /year.                                                               

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