Engineering & Technology - Engineering
Software Engineer - Ads Product
IC / Practitioner
Independently auditedBuilds and operates the software the business runs on. Owns a defined area of the function and the outcomes it produces.
Audited package
Built, independently audited role package. Everything on this page is written for this seat.
Your Stack (Swappable)
This role works against whatever tools you already run. We list the tool categories the role operates in, never a named vendor, so you are never asked to replace a system that works.
- Paid Media & Advertising
- Application services
- Workflow and eventing
- Marketing Automation
- Marketing Analytics & Attribution
- Experimentation & Feature Flags
- Observability & Monitoring
- Source and delivery
Deliverables
- Design documents
- Review checklists
- Technical standards
- Delivery and sequencing plans
Responsibilities
- Build campaign, ad-group, creative, targeting, audience, budget, bid, scheduling, and reporting workflows across client, API, and data state.
- Design a versioned campaign lifecycle and validation model that preserves drafts, approvals, edits, pauses, rejections, and archive history.
- Expose activation and propagation state from advertiser edit through serving ingestion, with understandable status and retry behavior.
- Implement safe controls for budgets, bids, caps, scheduling, bulk changes, imports, and other actions that can move money at scale.
- Build reporting and attribution surfaces with explicit freshness, estimate, adjustment, and reconciliation semantics.
- Reconcile product-reported spend and delivery to serving and billing systems, preserving correction and audit history.
- Integrate creative review, brand-safety, privacy, audience, and policy checks without duplicating their decision logic.
- Instrument advertiser funnel, campaign activation, edit success, report freshness, discrepancy, and recovery outcomes.
The essence of this seat
The Software Engineer - Ads Product is the engineer who builds advertiser-facing campaign, targeting, creative, budget-control, and reporting workflows end to end.
Signature move
Model the advertiser state machine. Map draft, review, scheduled, active, paused, exhausted, rejected, completed, and archived states plus every legal transition before implementing the screen
What good looks like
models concurrent commands with versioned state instead of last-write-wins
Decision rights
- - - The technical design and implementation of advertiser-facing campaign, ad-group, creative, targeting, budget, bid, and reporting workflows
Working vocabulary
What this role does
The Software Engineer - Ads Product is the engineer who builds advertiser-facing campaign, targeting, creative, budget-control, and reporting workflows end to end. The role's domain is campaign and ad-group lifecycle, creative management, targeting configuration, advertiser budget and bid controls, attribution, reporting freshness, and reconciliation to billed spend. Its core outcome is an advertiser can configure, launch, change, observe, and understand a campaign safely, with product state that propagates to serving and reporting that reconciles to money. This is a standalone 1:1 role package. It represents only the Software Engineer - Ads Product title. A generic Software Engineer package does not replace it, and this package does not replace any neighboring domain, layer, platform, or level title. The differentiation must remain visible in the role's metrics, artifacts, failure modes, operating protocols, stakeholders, interview loop, and Golden Q&A. The altitude and seams are explicit. The Software Engineer - Ads owns real-time auction, pricing, pacing, and serving latency, while this seat owns advertiser workflow, campaign state, reporting, and activation visibility. The Frontend Engineer owns browser-client architecture and interaction quality without the ads-product domain, while this seat owns the complete advertiser product workflow across ui, api, data model, propagation, and reporting. The Software Engineer - Brand Safety, Ads owns suitability classification and the eligibility policy decision, while this seat surfaces policy checks, errors, and appeals in the advertiser workflow. Two mental models should be visible in every decision: Configuration is executable money and The workflow is a state machine, not a form. The work is strong only when those models appear in the evidence rather than remaining vocabulary.
Best-fit customer
engineering teams that want consistent judgement applied to design, review, and delivery
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