Senior Solutions Engineer, Advertisers and Agencies

New York · North America · USD 160,000-170,000 · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 8, 2026

At a glance

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.

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.

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.
Conduct POCs, validate hypotheses, align expectations in collaboration with Product & Engineering.
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.
Participate in product planning, testing, and release reviews while translating client challenges into product requirements, user stories, and technical specs.
Help the sales team shape opportunities, propose upsell paths, and defend solution direction.
Create internal and external technical content—playbooks, whitepapers, internal trainings.

5+ years of DSP and AdTech experience, ideally in a client-facing technical role 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.
Strong foundational knowledge: HTTP, RESTful APIs, JavaScript, JSON, XML, web protocols, and ad-tech standards, privacy compliance.
SQL fluency and ability to analyze datasets, detect anomalies, and define metrics.
Ability to read and interpret logs, metrics dashboards, and debugging output.

Exposure to CTV/OTT, mobile SDKs, and omnichannel (web + mobile + connected environments)
Comfortable working in Unix/Linux environments; scripting experience (Python, Shell/Bash, Node.js, etc.)
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

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