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StackAdapt

Software Engineer, Stats & Analytics

Remote

Toronto, Canada

Junior

Full Time

26-02-2026

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Skills

Problem Solving Go SQL Data Warehousing Training Machine Learning Databases apache Marketing Analytics Snowflake Redis Artificial Intelligence Kafka

Job Specifications

StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.

About The Stats & Analytics Team

The Stats and Analytics team at StackAdapt solves complex distributed system challenges, focusing on scalability, performance, reliability, and data consistency. We leverage a modern tech stack that includes Golang for high-performance services, TiDB for scalable SQL databases, Redshift and Snowflake for data warehousing, Kafka for real-time streaming, Elasticsearch for analytics, and HDFS for distributed storage. The Stats & Analytics team is structured into three sub teams: Data Ingestion, Data Platform and Data Delivery.

StackAdapt is a Remote First company, we are open to candidates located anywhere in Canada or the United States for this position.

About The Data Ingestion Team

This team builds and operates the critical infrastructure that serves as the “front door” of StackAdapt’s event flow. We work on large-scale distributed systems focused on scalability, performance, reliability, and data correctness, processing 10+ billion events per day. Our systems power core functions across bidding, reporting, billing, analytics, and machine learning. We design and run low-latency, highly reliable ingestion systems for impressions, clicks, conversions, and third-party signals, ensuring data is accurate and available for downstream teams in real time.

About The Data Platform Team

This team is responsible for building and operating the infrastructure that powers data at scale across StackAdapt. Our systems process terabytes of data daily, serving both real-time and batch use cases. The data platform ensures that data is fresh, accurate, and cost-efficient so that analytics, machine learning, and product teams can rely on trustworthy, governed datasets.

About The Data Delivery Team

This team is responsible for transforming foundational data into customer-facing insights and products. Data Delivery builds the pipelines, services, and APIs that power reporting, billing, pacing, and analytics experiences across the platform. Working closely with Product and Web teams, they ensure data is accurate, accessible, and actionable for both internal stakeholders and advertisers.

What You'll Be Doing

Building highly scalable, distributed real-time micro-services primarily written in Go
Working with large data sets and various databases including Aerospike, Elasticsearch, Redis, ScyllaDB, Redshift, TiDB, MariaDB
Working with data lakehouse technologies like Apache Iceberg, Apache Trino, and real-time analytics technologies like StarRocks and Clickhouse
Build software that utilize messaging queues such as Kafka, SQS, and Kinesis
Write performance efficient and memory optimized code

What You'll Bring to the Table

2+ years of experience as a Backend Software Engineer.
Very strong problem solving skills in data structures, algorithms, and optimization
Experience working with relational databases and/or key-value stores
Experience building scalable micro-services and distributed systems

StackAdapter's Enjoy

Highly competitive salary
Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
Health benefits from day one of employment
Work from home reimbursements
Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
Robust training and onboarding program
Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
An awesome parental leave program
A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
Our social and team events!

StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.

We use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.

About StackAdapt

We've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns,

About the Company

StackAdapt is a digital advertising platform that specializes in native, display, video, connected TV, audio, in-game, and DOOH advertising. Our state-of-the-art platform is where some of the most progressive work in machine learning meets cutting-edge user experience. StackAdapt is designed around the three core pillars of programmatic—planning, executing and analyzing. StackAdapt is ranked as the number 1 DSP on G2. For six consecutive years with over hundreds of reviews, StackAdapt has been recognized as a high perform... Know more