Sr. Python Engineer - AdTech R&D

HUMAN was founded in 2012 in a Brooklyn sci-fi bookstore by Tamer Hassan, Michael Tiffany, Dan Kaminsky, and Ash Kalb. Our humble beginnings led to the creation of the Human Defense Platform, the backbone of all our products that safeguards enterprises from sophisticated bots, fraud, and account abuse. Today we verify the humanity of more than 20 trillion interactions per week for some of the largest companies and internet platforms. 

Our hacker roots still permeate everything we do. You will be a part of the HUMAN front line in our commitment to protecting companies (and in turn, their customers) from both revenue and reputation risk caused by digital attacks. However, HUMAN is not the center of this story. Humans like yourself are. We firmly believe in putting people first. This approach spans our extensive total rewards package, inclusive of competitive compensation, benefits, stipends - as well as our day-to-day culture - to ensure every human is empowered to do the best work of their life. We want to hear about the marathon you’re training for. We want to see pictures of your pets. We want to know your favorite robot (we have many).

 Even if you’re not a conventional “hacker” we can assure you that you are a hacker in your own right. We want to work with people like you who break down problems to build up better solutions. That’s what makes us HUMAN. You’ll be joining us at an exciting moment in the HUMAN story: we joined forces with PerimeterX in a market-changing merger, as well as recently acquired clean.io to enhance the Human Defense Platform. Together under the HUMAN brand, we will disrupt the economics of cybercrime. We hope you can join us in that mission.

The HUMAN R&D team is pivotal to our mission. They are the ones uncovering and fighting bot operations like PARETO, ICEBUCKET, 3ve, and Methbot. HUMAN supports our R&D humans by strongly valuing deep work and flexibility. Additionally, this team is encouraged to participate in R&D Research Friday - a designated half day each week dedicated to trying new ideas and personal career development. HUMAN is fully committed to flexible working arrangements to ensure our humans are able to do the best work of their lives. 

The modern advertising ecosystem is built around open standards like OpenRTB, Ads.txt, and Sellers.json, and understanding the capabilities and limitations of these standards is key to effectively fighting ad fraud. HUMAN’s Ad Standards Lab brings together engineering skills, deep standards expertise, and an offensive security mindset to not just detect fraud, but find and close gaps fraudsters can exploit.

We are looking for an experienced Python developer to own our systems that ingest Ads.txt and Sellers.json data, and our app store crawlers. You will be responsible for delivering accurate and timely standards data to our internal research teams and to customers, while becoming a subject matter expert on how to interpret and leverage this data to fight ad fraud.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain crawlers and other data ingestion systems that collect Ad Tech standards-related data
• Partner with other engineering and operations teams to integrate standards data into other systems
• Work with Research and Threat Intelligence teams to develop ways to utilize standards data in investigations, including developing bespoke analysis tooling
• Work with Product to expose standards data to customers, helping them better understand their inventory and improve its standards compliance
• Consult with customers to help them understand the standards and improve their compliance
• Participate in industry standards working groups, including proposing additional standards or changes to existing standards

Who You Are

• You are an experienced Python developer, familiar with building new systems from scratch, as well as maintaining existing ones; experience with Scrapy is a plus
• You know your way around SQL databases; experience with Snowflake is a plus
• You work well with other teams, building understanding across functions; experience working directly with customers or industry groups is a plus
• You have strong attention to detail, and can step back to see the big picture
• Experience in the Ad Tech industry, particularly with supply chain standards like Ads.txt, Sellers.json, and SupplyChain Object, is a plus

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HUMAN prides itself on being an equal opportunity workplace. We firmly believe in putting people first regardless of who you are, where you come from, how you identify, or who your favorite robot is (we have many). We are on a mission to protect the integrity of the internet for everyone, so we welcome all individuals to come to share their unique experiences and perspectives as we fight against cybercrime together!

With Humans located in all parts of the world, we’ve fully embraced our diversity of thought and are always looking for innovative ways to connect with one another - even in virtual reality! Although New York City is our HQ, we have teams in Tel Aviv, Israel; London, UK; Victoria, Canada; San Mateo, CA; Miami, FL; and Virginia.

We trust our Humans in choosing where they work and how they work. The total rewards package we provide reflects our commitment to our Humans’ personal career development, which includes annual stipends for wellbeing and learning & development, and a one time home office setup stipend. We also offer weekly lunches, dedicated time off, no-meeting Fridays (for our U.S. and Intl. based HUMANs), HUMAN days, and so much more.

We’re constantly trying to anticipate the needs of our Humans to ensure each one of us is equally prepared to do some of the best work of our life. Taking care of one another is part of the HUMAN experience and how we build true HUMAN connections.

If you are an individual with a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us directly.