Senior Software Engineer, Applovin
Infrastructure
$152-247k
+ Equity
Marketing platform for app developers
Open for applications
Marketing platform for app developers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$152-247k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To grow the mobile app ecosystem.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Experience operating and maintaining distributed systems
- Functional knowledge of Linux and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in any programming language
- Familiarity with SRE principles and practices
- First principles approach to problem solving
- Strive for simplicity, but comfortable with complexity
- Love of learning, exploration, and growth
Desirable
- Experience with any of the following:
- Public cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Terragrunt, Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
- Monitoring and alerting (e.g. Prometheus, Thanos, Cortex, VictoriaMetrics, Alertmanager, Grafana)
- Logging (e.g. Fluentbit, Logstash, Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
- Databases and caches (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Vertica, Aerospike, BigQuery, Memcache)
- Data pipelines (e.g. Kafka, Spark, Airflow)
- Design and implementation of Kubernetes custom resources and controllers
- Active contributor to open source and cloud-native community
- Fluent in Go (aka Golang)
What the job involves
- Our Operations team is searching for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join them in maintaining, scaling, and optimizing our globally distributed infrastructure
- We’re looking for someone comfortable in an SRE/DevOps-style role who wants to engage with the entire product development cycle
- This position reports directly to our Principal Software Engineer in Infrastructure and Operations
- Develop and maintain shared tools and infrastructure used by product and engineering teams
- Measure SLIs and take necessary action to make systems meet organizational SLOs
- Participate in on-call rotation to analyze and repair production-critical issues as they arise
- Champion process improvements and automation to reduce toil and improve operational health
- Drive continuous improvement of existing systems and tooling (testing, monitoring, alerting, security, release, etc.)
- Provide input to help other engineering teams design reliable and maintainable systems
- Help define standards, guidelines, and best practices
Our take
AppLovin operates a mobile ad network that helps advertisers target and deliver personalized ads to people who are similar to their existing user base. The company builds and acquires free-to-play mobile games and sells advertising space. Collectively, its portfolio attracts over tens of millions of users each day.
By 2026, the gaming industry is projected to be worth over $320B, and AppLovin commands a significant slice of this, with tools for building, monetizing and marketing apps towards increasing revenue for its users. The business has been profitable for some time and has received considerable investment, highlighting the potential that investors see in its product. It has also bolstered its offerings through numerous acquisitions, like German ad network Moboqo and Wurl, a high-growth software platform in the CTV market.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
33% female employees
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2018
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2014
$4m
SEED
Total funding: $408.1m
Company benefits
- Free medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Wellness stipend each paycheck
- Onsite gym & full-service cafe at PA HQ
- Phone bill covered for business usage
- Employee assistance programs
- Subsidized public transportation
- Flexible vacation time
- Equity
- 401k matching, life and disability coverage
- Team centric events
Company values
- We seek excellence together.
- We are tenacious, move fast, and deliver.
- We operate with integrity and intellectual honesty.
- We foster entrepreneurship to challenge what is next.
- We excel through our culture of equality.
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Articles
Leadership
Adam Foroughi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Began his career as a derivatives trader. Over the next decade, he applied this knowledge to adtech at three companies he founded: Lifestreet Media, Social Hour, and AppLovin.
Andrew Karam
(Co-Founder & VP Product)Began his career in pharmaceutical research. He has since co-founded three different companies in the adtech space including StylePage and Social Hour, which sold to Playphone in 2012.
Diversity & Inclusion at Applovin
Kimberly Frank (Sr. Director DEI & ESG)
- At AppLovin, we are intentional about the team and culture we are building, seeking candidates who are outstanding in their own right and also demonstrate their support of others. Equality is essential to our purpose – our people are key to cultivating a culture of belonging where employees can engage as their true selves
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