{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"a64d4df2d2549ef4927273c3","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a64d4df2d2549ef4927273c3","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a64d4df2d2549ef4927273c3","title":"Staff Backend Software Engineer - Performance","description":"About Vibe\r\nVibe.co is a fast-growing streaming TV advertising platform that helps brands reach audiences through hyper-targeted audience segmentation, AI insights, and real-time campaign optimization.\r\nAbout the Role\r\nYou'll join the Performance team that owns advertiser outcomes at Vibe. Bidding, pacing, and the prediction stack that drives both. You'll report to Clément Schiano, Engineering Manager for Performance.\r\nThree reasons you would want this job\r\nCTV performance advertising is still being invented. The auction dynamics, identity graph, and feedback loops are nothing like display or search. There's no playbook to copy; you'll be writing it.\r\nYou own the full decision loop. From prediction to bid price to pacing, on a product that real advertisers depend on today. Your judgment shapes the direction. You'll see the impact in the numbers within weeks.\r\nThe timing is right. Past \"does this work?\" and into \"how fast can we scale this?\" Early enough to shape the architecture. Late enough that you're not building on sand.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nOwn the pacer and bidder\r\nGo deep on the bidder and pacer stack, map it end-to-end and identify at least one fragility to own on day one.\r\nPropose improvements to the bidder or pacer autonomously from problem definition through design proposal.\r\nShip measurable improvements to CPx, pacing accuracy, or win rate within your first three months.\r\nRaise the team's ceiling\r\nDistribute critical system knowledge: make the team faster and less dependent on any single person.\r\nChallenge existing designs, including inherited ones, and push for cleaner solutions.\r\nDeepen expertise in theoretical foundations (probabilistic modelling, PID control theory) powering our approaches.\r\nMove at Vibe pace\r\nUse AI tooling as a genuine force multiplier.\r\nIterate in production, not in your head. Ship, measure and adjust.\r\nWhat You Need\r\nShipped backend systems in a strongly typed language (C++, Rust, Go, Scala, Java, or equivalent) at production scale.\r\nDebugged distributed systems under real traffic: latency issues, consistency failures, the works.\r\nWorked inside a DSP, SSP, or bidder: you understand auction mechanics from the inside.\r\nBuilt or tuned pacing algorithms or PID controllers theory and implementation, not just awareness.\r\nSolid grounding in probabilistic reasoning and statistical modelling you think in distributions, not just averages.\r\nNice to Haves\r\nExperience in a scale-up environment: you know what fast and resource-constrained actually feels like.\r\nML systems in production: feature pipelines, model serving, not just training notebooks.\r\nReal-time data pipelines and low-latency architectures at scale.\r\nRedis, Kafka, or equivalent under meaningful load.\r\nOur Values\r\nAt Vibe, we run on three values: Impact , Ambition , and Urgency . We tie every goal to a real business outcome, think 10x rather than settling for good enough, and move daily rather than waiting for perfect conditions.\r\nWhat We Offer\r\nEquity — Employee Stock Ownership Plan. You're building this; you should own part of it.\r\nVariable pay — based on objectives you hit. No arbitrary targets.\r\nHybrid flexibility — We're in the heart of Paris and our team is in 3x a week.\r\nHealth insurance — Full coverage via Alan.\r\nMeal vouchers — Via Swile.\r\nAnnual offsite — The whole team, once a year, somewhere worth the trip.\r\nTech Syncs — Engineering and Product meet in person at least quarterly, worldwide.\r\nEqual Opportunity\r\nVibe is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\r\nWe believe the best ideas come from teams with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. 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Bidding, pacing, and the prediction stack that drives both. You'll report to Clément Schiano, Engineering Manager for Performance.\r\nThree reasons you would want this job\r\nCTV performance advertising is still being invented. The auction dynamics, identity graph, and feedback loops are nothing like display or search. There's no playbook to copy; you'll be writing it.\r\nYou own the full decision loop. From prediction to bid price to pacing, on a product that real advertisers depend on today. Your judgment shapes the direction. You'll see the impact in the numbers within weeks.\r\nThe timing is right. Past \"does this work?\" and into \"how fast can we scale this?\" Early enough to shape the architecture. Late enough that you're not building on sand.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nOwn the pacer and bidder\r\nGo deep on the bidder and pacer stack, map it end-to-end and identify at least one fragility to own on day one.\r\nPropose improvements to the bidder or pacer autonomously from problem definition through design proposal.\r\nShip measurable improvements to CPx, pacing accuracy, or win rate within your first three months.\r\nRaise the team's ceiling\r\nDistribute critical system knowledge: make the team faster and less dependent on any single person.\r\nChallenge existing designs, including inherited ones, and push for cleaner solutions.\r\nDeepen expertise in theoretical foundations (probabilistic modelling, PID control theory) powering our approaches.\r\nMove at Vibe pace\r\nUse AI tooling as a genuine force multiplier.\r\nIterate in production, not in your head. 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We tie every goal to a real business outcome, think 10x rather than settling for good enough, and move daily rather than waiting for perfect conditions.\r\nWhat We Offer\r\nEquity — Employee Stock Ownership Plan. You're building this; you should own part of it.\r\nVariable pay — based on objectives you hit. No arbitrary targets.\r\nHybrid flexibility — We're in the heart of Paris and our team is in 3x a week.\r\nHealth insurance — Full coverage via Alan.\r\nMeal vouchers — Via Swile.\r\nAnnual offsite — The whole team, once a year, somewhere worth the trip.\r\nTech Syncs — Engineering and Product meet in person at least quarterly, worldwide.\r\nEqual Opportunity\r\nVibe is an equal opportunity employer. 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