Software Engineer - Platform
TLDR
Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure powering Koah's adtech platform, focusing on production systems, performance, and reliability.
Who We Are
Koah Labs is building the ad network to power the next generation of AI-native products. Our mission is to help publishers monetize and help advertisers reach the right audience — without compromising speed, UX, or privacy.
We’re a small, tight-knit team in San Francisco with backgrounds at X, Apple, Meta and early-stage startups. We’ve raised from top investors and are growing fast with real traction on both the publisher and advertiser sides of the marketplace.
Working at Koah means joining at the ground floor: you’ll ship code that shapes the company and the ecosystem we’re building. We move quickly, operate with high trust, and care deeply about craft.
Our Stack
Infra: Terraform, AWS, LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), Tailscale, Cloudflare
Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka, Python
Core Application: Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript
SDKs: Flutter, React Native, Android, iOS
The Role
We are looking for strong engineers with experience and interest in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure that make up our adtech platform.
You might be a fit if
You have maintained or operated serious systems in production at scale
You are detail-oriented and care about performance
You enjoy diving deep into problems and owning the platform layer that powers our product
You enjoy experimentation, measuring, and creating reliable systems
You want to own a breadth of systems
Koah is building an AI-powered advertising network designed to integrate ads seamlessly across various digital platforms, making them feel like a natural part of the user experience. We empower publishers to monetize effectively while helping advertisers connect with their target audiences without compromising speed, UX, or privacy. With innovative, adaptable ad formats, we unlock new potential for both advertisers and publishers in a rapidly evolving landscape.