Samba TV

Delivers TV audience measurement and insights

Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Full-Stack EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSan Francisco, CA, USA$160k - $200k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

5–8 years of experience building and operating production software
Strong command of TypeScript or JavaScript across frontend and backend
Experience building backend services and APIs — RESTful design, authentication patterns, token-based auth flows
Comfortable writing non-trivial SQL — window functions, aggregations, query optimization; BigQuery or similar analytical datastore experience a plus
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure: serverless or managed compute, object storage, secret management, scheduled jobs
Familiarity with eventual consistency and cache invalidation patterns in distributed systems
Proficient in agentic development — building or integrating LLM-powered workflows, tool-use patterns, or AI agents in production
Comfortable doing archaeology in production codebases — reading unfamiliar code, identifying live vs. legacy paths, and making safe changes

Responsibilities

Own features end-to-end — frontend interfaces, backend services and APIs, data models, and the infrastructure that runs them
Write and maintain analytical SQL over large-scale datasets (BigQuery); understand the domain well enough to extend measurement logic correctly
Design and operate data pipelines and caching layers that sit between raw data and the product surface
Maintain and evolve the auth and authorization model across Firebase, Auth0, and Firestore security rules
Manage multi-cloud integrations across GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Firestore, Cloud Storage) and AWS (S3)
Hold a high bar for testing, observability, and reliability — you instrument what you ship and own its behavior in production
Participate in architecture reviews, contribute to the technical roadmap, and mentor junior engineers

Desired Qualifications

Experience with React and modern frontend architecture patterns
Firebase platform experience: Cloud Functions, Firestore, Authentication
GCP and/or AWS in production; comfort across both is a strong plus
Background in ad tech, audience measurement, or CTV/OTT platforms
Exposure to ad measurement concepts: reach, frequency, attribution, exposure modeling

Salary Range: 160000 to 200000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Samba is a media intelligence company. We know what the world is watching, reading, and thinking about — in real time, at scale, across every screen. Our data exists with the consent of over a billion people, organized into the most complete picture of consumer attention ever built. The biggest brands in the world use that picture to make smarter decisions. We think it’s the most interesting data asset on the planet, because it’s the most culturally relevant.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Samba TV's Product Engineering team builds the software that puts our data to work — customer-facing platforms, internal tooling, and the APIs and services that connect them. Our engineers own meaningful systems end-to-end, ship production code every week, and work directly with product, data science, and go-to-market teams to deliver outcomes that matter.

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will own features and systems across the stack — from web frontends to backend services, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. The backend work here is not just CRUD: it spans analytical SQL over large-scale TV viewership datasets, Firestore-backed caching pipelines, a multi-cloud environment (GCP and AWS), and a non-trivial auth model. We care about engineers who think in systems, take ownership of correctness and reliability, and are comfortable doing the archaeology that real production codebases require.

What You'll Do

Own features end-to-end — frontend interfaces, backend services and APIs, data models, and the infrastructure that runs them

Write and maintain analytical SQL over large-scale datasets (BigQuery); understand the domain well enough to extend measurement logic correctly

Design and operate data pipelines and caching layers that sit between raw data and the product surface

Maintain and evolve the auth and authorization model across Firebase, Auth0, and Firestore security rules

Manage multi-cloud integrations across GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Firestore, Cloud Storage) and AWS (S3)

Hold a high bar for testing, observability, and reliability — you instrument what you ship and own its behavior in production

Participate in architecture reviews, contribute to the technical roadmap, and mentor junior engineers

What We're Looking For

5–8 years of experience building and operating production software

Strong command of TypeScript or JavaScript across frontend and backend

Experience building backend services and APIs — RESTful design, authentication patterns, token-based auth flows

Comfortable writing non-trivial SQL — window functions, aggregations, query optimization; BigQuery or similar analytical datastore experience a plus

Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure: serverless or managed compute, object storage, secret management, scheduled jobs

Familiarity with eventual consistency and cache invalidation patterns in distributed systems

Proficient in agentic development — building or integrating LLM-powered workflows, tool-use patterns, or AI agents in production

Comfortable doing archaeology in production codebases — reading unfamiliar code, identifying live vs. legacy paths, and making safe changes

Nice To Have

Experience with React and modern frontend architecture patterns

Firebase platform experience: Cloud Functions, Firestore, Authentication

GCP and/or AWS in production; comfort across both is a strong plus

Background in ad tech, audience measurement, or CTV/OTT platforms

Exposure to ad measurement concepts: reach, frequency, attribution, exposure modeling

Samba is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We strive to empower connection with one another, reflect the communities we serve, and tackle meaningful projects that make a real impact.

Samba may collect personal information directly from you, as a job applicant, Samba may also receive personal information from third parties, for example, in connection with a background, employment or reference check, in accordance with the applicable law. For further details, please see Samba's Applicant Privacy Policy. For residents of the EU , Samba Inc. is the data controller.

About the Company

Samba TV

Delivers TV audience measurement and insights

Samba TV collects and analyzes TV viewing data to help advertisers, broadcasters, and content creators understand what people watch. It embeds its technology in about 35 million smart TVs across 20 brands, creating a large viewership database and a household identity graph. The system works by using a proprietary multi-source panel from participating TVs to gather viewing activity, then turning that data into insights and analytics that clients can use to plan ads, optimize content, and measure performance. What sets Samba TV apart is the size and scope of its data: it claims the largest end-to-end viewership dataset and identity graph in the industry, with a panel hundreds of times larger than typical measurements and broad brand partnerships, while offering privacy controls for viewers who opt in or out. The company aims to provide data-driven, actionable insights to improve advertising effectiveness and content delivery across the global smart TV market.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Debt Financing
Total funding: $75.7M
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 2008

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