Solutions Engineer, Advertisers and Agencies

About the Role

As a Senior Solutions Engineer within the Advertisers and Agencies team, you will be a technical anchor in driving excellence and strategic value for our media buyer clients. You will lead complex solution design, audience activation strategies, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful onboarding, optimization, and long-term success of advertiser and agency partnerships.

This role requires deep expertise in programmatic advertising, demand-side technologies (DSP), troubleshooting and audience 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, validate hypotheses, align expectations in collaboration with Product & Engineering.

• Onboarding, Integration & Execution
  • Lead the technical integration (post-sales): Data Onboarding, API Integration, Log-level data setup, pixel configuration.
  • Collaborate with the Addressability team for new DMP integration, clean-room setup, and graph matching.
  • Own the troubleshooting and resolve complex issues with campaign delivery, data availability, targeting etc.
  • Monitor performance and ensure health of the campaign through the use of reporting, network dashboard, Looker etc.

• Cross-Functional Influence & Product Feedback
  • Being a champion for clients’ needs internally—participate in 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-matter expertise.
  • Help the sales team shape opportunities, propose upsell paths, and defend solution direction.
  • Create internal and external technical content—playbooks, whitepapers, internal trainings.

Who You Are

• Domain, DSP and AdTech
  • 5+ years of DSP and AdTech experience, ideally in 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, metrics dashboards, 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 with ability to 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 in Computer 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 in operating globally or with cross-regional clients.
  • Experience with MCPs, Agent-to-agent communication, Generative AI tools is a big plus.

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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