Software Engineer - Platform
At a glance
Mid-level Software Engineering role at Koah. San Francisco · full-time · $180,000–$250,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and maintain infrastructure supporting the adtech platform
- Operate production systems at scale, keeping reliability and performance in focus
- Investigate platform problems in depth and take ownership of the underlying systems
- Run experiments, measure results and use them to improve system reliability
What you bring
- You have operated substantial systems in production at scale
- You pay close attention to detail and care about system performance
Who this fits
This role suits an engineer who wants broad ownership of platform systems and enjoys deep technical problem-solving and experimentation. It is based onsite in San Francisco.
From the employer
Who We Are
Koah Labs is building the ad network to power the next generation of AI-native products. Our mission is to help publishers monetize and help advertisers reach the right audience — without compromising speed, UX, or privacy.
We’re a small, tight-knit team in San Francisco with backgrounds at X, Apple, Meta and early-stage startups. We’ve raised from top investors and are growing fast with real traction on both the publisher and advertiser sides of the marketplace.
Working at Koah means joining at the ground floor: you’ll ship code that shapes the company and the ecosystem we’re building. We move quickly, operate with high trust, and care deeply about craft.
Our Stack
Infra: Terraform, AWS, LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), Tailscale, Cloudflare
Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka, Python
Core Application: Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript
SDKs: Flutter, React Native, Android, iOS
The Role
We are looking for strong engineers with experience and interest in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure that make up our adtech platform.
You might be a fit if
You have maintained or operated serious systems in production at scale
You are detail-oriented and care about performance
You enjoy diving deep into problems and owning the platform layer that powers our product
You enjoy experimentation, measuring, and creating reliable systems
You want to own a breadth of systems
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