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# Sr. Software Development Engineer at iSpot

- **Company:** iSpot
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ispottv/jobs/4724042005

## Job description

Immigration / Work Authorization Notice: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. iSpot is not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

iSpot competes for the best talent. Our compensation packages consist of salary and equity in one of Seattle’s hottest start-ups, as well as other standard benefits. Most importantly, we provide a really interesting working experience, and the chance to contribute to the success of something great.

What You’ll Be Part Of:

At iSpot.tv, we deal with BIG data, operating in a high-scale AWS environment with thousands of servers processing massive streams of media metadata. As a Senior SDE, you are a foundational pillar of our engineering team. You own entire domains, drive scalable solutions, and act as a "go-to" expert.

We are currently looking for an AI-native engineer – someone who views AI not as a novelty, but as a core component of their development lifecycle – to help lead our mission-critical data evolution and contribute to the vision of Creative Audience and Outcomes Pillar.

Responsibilities:

1. Technical Excellence & Domain Ownership

- Coding & Debugging: You will design domains with testability and multiple teams in mind, creating extensible and shareable codebases. You are expected to provide prescriptive code reviews that suggest more acceptable code patterns and contribute to company-wide style guidelines.
- Quality & Release: You will maintain a high standard of quality, setting the example for the team. This involves developing the architecture for our automation systems and expertly debugging complex issues within the CI/CD pipeline. You will be responsible for implementing secure deployment strategies, especially for large-scale, high-risk projects.

1. AI-Driven Productivity & Innovation

- AI-First Mindset: You are expected to be "AI-native." You will actively explore and learn about AI technologies that enhance the efficiency of the entire team's work.
- Leading Adoption: You create space for teammates to improve their AI tooling through pairing, providing demos, and writing documentation.
- Creative Problem Solving: You are a pioneer in critical technologies, bringing creative solutions to complex, large-scale projects and ensuring your contributions can be extended far into the future.

1. Operational Excellence & Data Strategy

- Data-Driven RCA: You will propose and implement viable domain measurement solutions. You'll play a lead role in researching external solutions and leading root cause analysis (RCA) for complex, multi-domain incidents. You will expertly handle on-call for the team’s services, write and update runbooks, and coach newer team members on investigating alerts and incidents.
- Data Pipeline Ownership: You will design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines – authoring and orchestrating Airflow DAGs, leveraging Snowflake for large-scale analytics workloads – ensuring data flows are observable, performant, and cost-efficient.
- Operational Efficiency & Toil Reduction: You are expected to proactively improve the current state of operations by identifying and reducing toil. You will apply a "Platform Engineering" mindset to automate repetitive manual tasks, ensuring the team remains focused on high-value engineering.
- Scalability & Influence: You will build internal networks to improve organizational speed and the quality of technology solutions, removing obstacles for the team as they arise. You are the "go-to" person for the team, identifying trends and introducing broad solutions to address systemic issues.
- Cost-Conscious Engineering: You will drive a mature cost-optimization strategy, ensuring that architectural decisions and cloud resource utilization are both performant and cost-efficient. You are expected to balance technical excellence with business value, treating cost-consciousness as a core pillar of system reliability.

1. Leadership & Collaboration

- Strategic Alignment: You routinely work cross-functionally to align partners and stakeholders with the project vision and strategy.
- Mentorship: You mentor junior team members, ensuring your communication promotes clarity and inspires action. You onboard and coach other engineers in engineering best practices and AI-first mindset adoption.
- Conflict Resolution: You are adept at handling personal conflicts within the team and navigating ambiguity to reach strategic milestones.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

- Experience: 5-7 years in developing software for shareable features across multiple engineering projects. Experience leading small-to-mid-sized technical initiatives is required.
- Architectural Leadership: Proven ability to make high-level architectural decisions, including redesigning legacy services to ensure they are highly reliable and operable. You follow industry best practices for high-availability API design and the streamlining of complex database operations.
- Platform Engineering: Hands-on experience with Platform Engineering principles, focusing on internal developer experience, infrastructure abstraction, and building self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
- Cloud Native: Expert knowledge of AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, IAM).
- Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience with Terraform.
- Tech Required: Java, Snowflake, Apache Airflow (DAG design and development), MySQL, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, RabbitMQ (or similar message broker), Spring Boot, CI/CD pipelines.
- AI Native: Experience using AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development (e.g., Kiro, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor, or similar, Claude Code).
- Soft Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences, from junior devs to senior leadership. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience with CI/CD concepts (CircleCI).
- A track record of identifying trends in incidents and introducing broad solutions to address them.

Target cash compensation range: $140,183 - $179,436 USD Annually

We are committed to providing competitive, market-informed compensation. The cash compensation above includes base salary, variable commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, all full time iSpotters are eligible to participate in iSpot’s equity plan to receive stock options. Non-exempt roles will also be eligible for (pre-approved) overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are influenced by different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

For more information on total rewards package, go[HER](https://www.ispot.tv/about/careers) If you don't feel you met every single requirement for the role, don't rule yourself out. Please apply anyway!

iSpot is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please contact our HR team.

California Residents applying for positions at [iSpot](http://ispot.tv/) can access our California Consumer Privacy Act [here.](https://www.ispot.tv/privacy)

## About iSpot

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: iSpot provides real-time, cross-screen measurement and attribution for TV and streaming advertising, enabling advertisers to optimize campaign performance with digital-like precision.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding: $382.8M total; last round: Private Equity led by Goldman Sachs in 2022)
- **Headquarters**: Bellevue, Washington, USA (also offices in New York, NY, and operates in Ireland, India, Canada, Pakistan)
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Sean Muller (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Advertising Technology (AdTech) – TV and streaming advertising measurement & analytics.
- **Target customers**: B2B – brands, agencies, and media companies seeking to measure and optimize linear and streaming TV ad effectiveness.
- **Mission / purpose**: “Justify and optimize TV advertising investments with fast, accurate, actionable cross-screen measurement and attribution you can trust.” [ispot.tv](https://www.ispot.tv/about/careers)

## Products & Services
- **iSpot.tv Platform**: Always-on, real-time measurement of every TV ad across linear and streaming, covering creative effectiveness, audience engagement, media attribution, and competitive benchmarking. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ispottv)
- **iSpot SAGE**: Agentic AI platform powered by video advertising, designed to provide proprietary insights and automation for ad optimization. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/ispottv)
- **Cross-Screen Attribution**: Unified view of ad performance across traditional TV, connected TV (CTV) and digital video, linking exposure to business outcomes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~$100M (latest data); **Total Funding** $382.8M (seed, Series A/B/C, and a $325M PE round from Goldman Sachs in April 2022). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ispottv)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Insight Partners, Madrona, Goldman Sachs (lead for the 2022 PE round). Acquisitions include Ace Metrix, DRMetrix, ADSCRIBE, and 605. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ispottv)
- **Growth Signals**: Introduced iSpot SAGE agentic AI platform; expanded to 5 countries; active job postings (14 as of mid-2026) with +100% YoY increase in listings; trusted by hundreds of advertisers and publishers. Note: headcount decreased 13.4% YoY to 262 employees, but new hiring indicates strategic refocus. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ispottv) [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ispottv)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built real-time data**: Unlike legacy panel-based solutions, iSpot measures every TV ad as it airs, across both linear and streaming, providing always-on, cross-screen attribution.
- **Proprietary AI (iSpot SAGE)**: Agentic AI platform designed specifically for video advertising, offering unique automation and insight capabilities. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/ispottv)
- **Industry trust**: Used by hundreds of major advertisers and agencies; strong track record of acquisitions that expanded data assets and scale.
- **End-to-end measurement**: Covers creative, audience, and outcomes in a single platform, reducing fragmentation for clients.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-driven innovation**: Investing in agentic AI (SAGE) to further automate and enhance ad measurement and optimization.
- **Cross-screen unification**: Deepening integration of linear and streaming TV data to provide seamless, holistic attribution for evolving media consumption.
- **International expansion**: Operating in 5 countries (US, Ireland, India, Canada, Pakistan) and likely scaling global reach.
- **Talent rebuilding**: Despite recent headcount reduction, increased job postings (+100% YoY) signal investment in key roles, especially in Engineering, Data Science, and Sales. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ispottv)

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid & flexible working**: iSpot embraces hybrid work with a mix of in-office (Bellevue, New York) and remote. Benefits include Flexible Paid Time Off, commuter assistance, and a monthly tech stipend for Wi-Fi/phone. [ispot.tv](https://www.ispot.tv/about/careers)
- **Competitive compensation**: Salaries targeted at the 75th percentile of the market; stock options granted upon hire with potential for additional grants during annual review. [ispot.tv](https://www.ispot.tv/about/careers)
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Medical/dental/vision with $0/month individual option, generous HSA match, 401k match, parental leave, Dependent Care FSA, pet insurance, tuition reimbursement, Learning & Development platform, and Employee Assistance Program. [ispot.tv](https://www.ispot.tv/about/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: The Product & Engineering team is described as “at the core of iSpot’s innovative spirit,” where every employee can shape the future of ad measurement. Culture values include being “Passionate and Focused,” “Motivated and Innovative,” “Diverse and Inclusive,” “Open and Honest,” and “Elevated and Inspired.” [ispot.tv](https://www.ispot.tv/about/careers)
- **Growth opportunities**: Access to learning platforms, tuition reimbursement, and the chance to work on cutting-edge AI and big data technologies in a fast-growing company.

## Sources
1. [ispot.tv – Careers page](https://www.ispot.tv/about/careers)
2. [linkedin.com – iSpot company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ispottv)
3. [cbinsights.com – iSpot profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/ispottv)
4. [greenhouse.io – iSpot job board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ispottv)

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