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Senior Platform Engineer

ID5 is an identity provider for digital advertising, offering a platform that enhances user recognition and privacy compliance for publishers and ad tech platforms.

ID5.io

Employee count: 51-200

ID5 enables addressable and measurable advertising to support the growth of the digital economy and provide free and safe access to content and services. Technical changes, signal loss, and increasingly more stringent data protection regulations require new, advanced technologies that enable audience addressability while respecting people’s privacy preferences.

ID5 has risen to this challenge and developed solutions that support publishers’ and marketers’ need for better addressability. Its laser focus on Identity sets it apart from competitive solutions and enables the company to offer the most advanced and sophisticated identity services to over 100,000 media properties, and hundreds of technology platforms and advertisers, making it the most adopted identity solution in the market.

Role Overview:

As a Senior Platform Engineer at ID5, you will play a key role in building and evolving the core platform that underpins our identity services. You will work across cloud and bare-metal environments to ensure our systems are stable, reliable, scalable, and observable. Partnering closely with product and data teams, you will help define and implement best practices, design fault-tolerant infrastructure, and develop automation and tooling that empower teams across the business. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in agile, data-centric environments and wants to make a direct impact on the future of digital advertising addressability.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own and evolve ID5’s platform, ensuring stability, reliability, scalability, and observability across services.
  • Participate in technical design discussions and contribute platform expertise to architectural decisions.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation to support critical production systems.
  • Help define and champion platform engineering best practices, principles, and standards.
  • Build and improve platform observability with a focus on actionable, predictive metrics.
  • Design and deliver fault-tolerant, highly scalable, and highly available systems.
  • Develop self-service tooling and automation to empower product and data teams.
  • Perform maintenance and lifecycle management of applications and infrastructure, including defining processes for upgrades, patching, and troubleshooting.

Required Qualifications:

  • Several years of experience building and operating platforms that support SaaS, DaaS, or ML workloads in large-scale production environments.
  • Deep understanding of platform engineering and DevOps principles, with practical experience supporting data-centric workloads.
  • Experienced working across both bare-metal and Cloud environments.
  • Skilled in designing and operating distributed data platforms such as Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch.
  • Familiarity with modern data practices such as data lakes, data warehousing, and large-scale batch/streaming pipelines.
  • Comfortable writing automation and platform tooling (Python, Bash, Go, etc.), including scripts and services to support data engineering workflows.
  • Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.).
  • Comfortable working in a small, highly agile, and fully remote team.

What we offer to our talent

  • Remote-first working policy
  • A competitive compensation package, including stock options in ID5
  • WeWork membership and option to work from different WeWork locations
  • Regular offsites to enjoy face-to-face time and to bond further with your colleagues
  • A dynamic environment that offers room for growth and development to all employees
  • A friendly, international, and multicultural team
  • We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are passionate about creating an inclusive environment in which all employees can thrive

More about ID5

Launched in September 2017, ID5 currently employs 50 people and works with premium publishers, ad tech platforms, and advertisers globally. Built to improve addressability across all digital advertising environments, ID5 has rapidly established itself as the most adopted identity solution in the market, prevailing over larger and more established companies thanks to its unique position and focus on providing the best identification and data protection technology.

The company is backed by financial and strategic industry investors who believe in ID5’s vision and plan. This investment has allowed ID5 to expand the business, increase its footprint globally, and hire the best talent to support its ambitious growth plans.

Recognized as one of the most outstanding employers by Digiday’s WorkLife Awards 2023, ID5 is a remote-first company, allowing employees to work from different locations and time zones indefinitely. We equip our team with all the tools needed to perform their work remotely, and we ensure people bond and stay connected thanks to regular all-hands meetings, communication tools such as Slack and Zoom, and by organizing regular offsites around the world. We also offer WeWork membership for those who prefer not to work from home, and allow individuals to move across different WeWork locations. More details about our remote-first organization here:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mathieuroche_team-remotework-remoteworklife-activity- 6927642580742504449-KbhL

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Full Time

Experience level

Senior

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Open to candidates from all countries.

Hiring timezones

Worldwide

About ID5.io

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At the heart of ID5 is a mission to build a better, more privacy-conscious foundation for digital advertising. The company was born from the belief that the digital advertising ecosystem deserves smarter, more efficient identity technology that delivers superior results without compromising user trust. This guiding principle has driven the team to create innovative solutions that empower publishers, advertisers, and ad tech platforms to thrive in a complex and evolving landscape. The culture at ID5 is one of collaboration, innovation, and respect. They have cultivated an environment where every team member is trusted to lead, encouraged to learn, and supported to grow. This is a place where taking initiative and transforming ideas into tangible impact is not just encouraged, but expected. The company's ICARE values—Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, and Endeavoring—are the bedrock of their operations, shaping how they think, work, and achieve their ambitious goals together.

ID5 is a remote-first company, offering the flexibility for its team to work from anywhere while also providing office hubs in London and New York for those who prefer in-person collaboration. This hybrid approach reflects their understanding that a healthy work-life balance is crucial for producing the best work. The company is deeply committed to the sustainable development of the digital economy, striving to ensure that access to content and services remains free and safe for everyone. By developing adaptive identity technology, ID5 intelligently connects signals across various environments, enhancing addressability and advertising effectiveness while strictly adhering to global data protection regulations. They are not just building a company; they are fostering a community of passionate problem-solvers dedicated to driving meaningful and lasting change across the entire advertising industry, ensuring that privacy and performance can coexist harmoniously.

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ID5.io

Company size

51-200 employees

Founded in

2017

Chief executive officer

Mathieu Roche, Pierre-Antoine Durgeat

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