About the Role:
As a
Senior Solutions Engineerwithin the Advertisers and Agencies team, you willbe a technical anchorin driving excellence and strategic value for our media buyer clients. You will lead complex solution design, audienceactivationstrategies, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful onboarding, optimization, and long-term success of advertiser and agency partnerships.This role requires deepexpertisein programmatic advertising, demand-side technologies(DSP),troubleshootingandaudience data solutions. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor to clients and internal stakeholders, influencing product development and delivering scalable solutions that meet evolving market needs.
What You'll Do:
Pre-Sales& Solution Design
- Serve as the technical lead during prospect and client engagements: discovery, scoping, proof-of-concept, and RFP/RFI responses.
- Design end-to-end solutions using PubMatic’s buyer stack (bidder, API, audience, identity, reporting, log-level data) aligned with client goals (reach, targeting, optimization, attribution).
- Conduct POCs,validatehypotheses,alignexpectations in collaboration with Product & Engineering.
Onboarding, Integration & Execution
- Lead the technical integration (post-sales): Data Onboarding, API Integration, Log-level data setup,pixelconfiguration.
- Collaborate with the Addressabilityteam for new DMP integration, clean-room setup, and graph matching.
- Own the troubleshootingand resolvecomplex issues withcampaign delivery, data availability, targeting etc.
- Monitor performance and ensure health of the campaignthroughthe use of reporting, network dashboard,Lookeretc.
Cross-FunctionalInfluence & Product Feedback
- Be a champion for clients’ needs internally—participatein product planning, testing, and release reviews.
- Translate client challenges into product requirements, user stories, and technical specs.
- Collaborate with engineering on tooling, automation, internal platforms, and efficiency improvements.
- Train and mentor junior solution engineers and support scaling of best practices.
Client Relationship & Enablement
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to advertiser and agency leads, gaining credibility via subject-matterexpertise.
- Help the sales team shape opportunities, propose upsell paths, and defend solution direction.
- Create internal and external technical content—playbooks, whitepapers, internaltrainings.
Who You Are:
Domain,DSPandAdTech
- 5+ yearsofDSP andAdTechexperience,Ideallyin a client-facing technical role (solutions, pre-sales, technical consulting)interfacing with agencies and advertisers.
- Deep understanding of programmatic advertising (DSPs, RTB, auction logic, supply path, bid shading).
- Experience with audience activation, data onboarding, identity resolution, DMPs, CDPs, and data ecosystems.
- Exposure to CTV/OTT, mobile SDKs, and omnichannel (web + mobile + connected environments) is a big plus.
Technical & Analytical Skills
- Strong foundational knowledge: HTTP, RESTful APIs, JavaScript, JSON, XML, web protocols, and ad-tech standards (VAST, VPAID,OpenRTB, cookie sync, etc.), privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA etc.)
- Comfortable working in Unix/Linux environments; scripting experience (Python, Shell/Bash, Node.js, etc.)is a plus.
- SQL fluency and ability to analyze datasets, detect anomalies, and define metrics.
- Ability to read and interpret logs,metricsdashboards, and debugging output.
Soft Skills & Leadership
- Excellent communicator: can translate complex technical stories into business outcomes for non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong analytical thinking, pattern recognition, and problem-solving aptitude.
- Self-starter withabilityto manage multiple projects concurrently in a fast-paced environment.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and driving clarity.
- Mentorship mindset: willing to train, coach, and elevate more junior contributors.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s inComputer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
- Experience at a mid-to-large scale AdTech company or an agency/advertiser doing advanced programmatic work.
- Understanding of identity privacy frameworks (e.g.GDPR, CCPA, UID2, IAB efforts).
- Experience inoperatingglobally or with cross-regional clients.
- Experience with MCPs, Agent-to-agent communication, GenerativeAI tools is a big plus.
What We Offer
- Competitive base salary + bonus / equity package
- Comprehensive benefits (health, dental, vision, etc.)
- Flexible and hybrid work model
- Opportunity to influence and build high-impact products
- Strong career growth path (technical ladder, management track)
- Collaborative and inclusive culture
Why Join Us?
You’llbe working in one of the most dynamic sectors in tech, at the intersection of data, identity, and media. In this role, you will materially influence how major advertisers and agencies think about audience activation and measurement. If you like debating the trade-offs of identity graphs, rolling out real-time pipelines under SLA, shaping product vision, and having direct ownership over high-impact work—this is the role for you.
Additional Information
Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the globe have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.
Benefits: Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide such as, paid leave programs, paid holidays, healthcare, dental and vision insurance, disability and life insurance, commuter benefits, physical and financial wellness programs, unlimited DTO in the US (that we actually require you to use!), reimbursement for mobile and fully stocked pantries plus in-office catered lunches 5 days per week.
Diversity and Inclusion: PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don’t just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
About PubMatic
PubMatic is one of the world’s leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.
Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.
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Compensation Disclosure
In accordance with
applicable law, the below salary range provided is PubMatic’s reasonable estimate of the total compensation for this role. New hires and current team members are typically compensated toward the middle of our pay range. The actual amount may vary, based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities. In addition to salary PubMatic also offers a bonus, restricted stock units, and a competitive benefits package.Total Compensation Range
$140,000
—$160,000 USD
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