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Magnite

Magnite

magnite.com

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901 Employees

About the Company

We’re Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV, online video, display, and audio. The world's leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. In April 2021 we acquired SpotX to further enhance our CTV business and better help our clients in this rapidly growing market. Anchored in sunny Los Angeles, bustling New York City, mile high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.

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Magnite
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Senior Engineer, Backend APIs
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Engineer, Backend APIs Role Summary: Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of microservice‑based APIs for large‑scale reporting and analytics. Collaborate with product, UI, and data teams to deliver high‑availability, well‑documented services that power ad‑tech analytics. Expectations: - 5+ years software engineering, 3+ in Java. - Proven track record delivering production‑grade, well‑tested APIs. - Strong communication and collaborative mindset. Key Responsibilities: - Architect and evolve microservice APIs, ensuring clear contracts (OpenAPI/gRPC), versioning, pagination, and SLO compliance. - Partner with product, UI, and data teams to take features end‑to‑end: requirements, design, rollout, telemetry, iteration. - Design data access patterns: schema, query plans, caching, indexing, and performance tuning for big data. - Own services in production: dashboards, alerting, load testing, capacity planning, cost‑aware design, reliability. - Champion code quality through testing, observability, design docs, code reviews. - Leverage CI/CD, observability, and cloud tooling to sustain high throughput, low latency services. Required Skills: - Java (Vert.x, Dropwizard, or similar) for high‑throughput, low‑latency web services; experience with asynchronous and concurrent patterns. - Microservice fundamentals: boundaries, resiliency, observability, and CI/CD. - Relational DB experience: Postgres or similar—modeling, migrations, indexing, query optimization. - API design: OpenAPI/gRPC, authentication (OAuth2/JWT), rate limiting, security best practices. - Observability: metrics, tracing, logs; load/performance testing. - Cloud & container: AWS, GCP, Azure; Docker/Kubernetes. - Event‑driven/streaming architecture familiarity. - Functional programming concepts (preferred). - Git/GitHub: code reviews, branching strategies, ownership. Required Education & Certifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent; Master’s or relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, Java SE Expert) are a plus. ---
Los angeles, United states
Hybrid
Senior
12-02-2026