Commerce media platform connecting marketers and publishers for performance advertising
Criteo operates a large-scale commerce media platform built on Hadoop, Vertica, and Spark—a data-first architecture suited to real-time bidding and audience segmentation. The company is actively adopting Google Privacy Sandbox and SAP AI while phasing out .NET, signaling adaptation to both regulatory shifts in ad tech and enterprise backend consolidation. Engineering hiring (66 open roles) outpaces sales (50) by a significant margin, reflecting a platform company scaling compute and ML capacity faster than go-to-market.
Notable leadership hires: Dev Lead, Strategic Accounts Director, Team Lead, Developer Lead, Sales Director
Criteo is a publicly traded commerce media company (NASDAQ: CRTO) headquartered in Paris with 1,001–5,000 employees. The platform connects thousands of marketers and media owners to deliver targeted advertising across product discovery and purchase moments, using behavioral data, recommendation engines, and CPC-based bidding. The company serves global retailers and brands, with hiring active across 17 countries spanning North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. Core infrastructure runs on Hadoop, Vertica, and Apache Spark; emerging projects focus on campaign optimization, incrementality measurement, and retail media creative design.
Criteo uses Hadoop, Vertica, Apache Spark, Tableau, Python, SQL, C++, Scala, Kubernetes, and Prometheus. It is adopting Google Privacy Sandbox, SAP AI, and Oracle EPM Cloud while replacing .NET.
Criteo actively hires across 17 countries: France, Spain, Germany, Romania, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, United States, Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, China, United Arab Emirates, Cyprus, Australia, and Armenia.
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