Director of Engineering

Magnite; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity / ESPP

Pension & retirement plans

Comprehensive healthcare

Generous time off

Family leave benefits

Cell phone subsidy

Recognition programs

Wellness programme

Job summary

Magnite, based in New York, seeks an accomplished Senior Engineering Manager to lead several engineering teams responsible for software development, delivery, and governance. You will align teams with strategic goals, forecast resources, and drive performance in a fast-paced environment.

You will mentor engineers, manage cross‑team communication across time zones, and partner with Product Owners to ensure delivery of scalable, low-latency distributed applications using modern tech stacks such as

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience, with at least 5 years in a Senior Engineering Manager role.
• Experience leading teams with engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing and infrastructure as code.
• Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones and coordinating with Product.
• Hands-on experience with Rust, Go, Spark or similar technologies; familiarity with Hadoop, Kafka, Scylla, Cassandra, or other data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of multiple engineering teams, aligning software development and delivery with business goals.
• Forecast resource needs and plan to meet product release schedules.
• Govern incidents, problems, and changes, ensuring SLAs and best practices.
• Perform performance reviews and mentor engineers and leaders within the department.
• Communicate status and metrics to stakeholders and collaborate with Product Owners.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Performance reviews

Resource forecasting

Incident management

Tools

Golang

Rust

Java/Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Spark

Kafka

PostgreSQL

MariaDB

Redis

Memcached

RESTful APIs

Microservices

React

TypeScript

Job description

• Leadership:
• Have full responsibility for multiple engineering teams including ownership of software development and delivery, SDLC, software quality, and people management
• Own alignment of teams to business and strategic goals
• Continue to build and develop your teams to meet the future needs of the organization
• Perform resource forecasting and planning to meet product release plans
• Handle management and governance of incidents, problems, and changes including escalations, meeting SLAs, and driving best practice across teams
• Conduct performance reviews & appraisals
• Mentor engineers and leaders within your department
• Teams & People:
• Inspire a team and motivate people around a shared vision
• Have excellent communication, planning, and organizational skills
• Work closely with Tech Lead(s) to develop and grow team members
• Manage, focus and ensure team execution and delivery
• Provide team/project status and metrics
• Communication & Collaboration:
• Be a central point of contact for key stakeholders across the business, including planning, prioritization, and estimation to ensure business needs are met
• Cascade communication - foster and ensure relevant communication of information necessary to teams
• Provide external communication about team execution and delivery status and metrics
• Be the primary liaison with Product / Product Owners and other stakeholders
• Our current tech stack:
• Golang, Rust, Java / Spring Boot
• ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes
• Spark
• Docker
• ALB, HAProxy
• RDS, MariaDB, Postgres
• Redis, Memcache
• Kafka, SNS, SQS
• RESTful API
• Microservice architectures
• Terraform, Github Actions, Jenkins
• JavaScript / TypeScript / React
• Linux (both on-premise and AWS)

Benefits

• Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Pension and Retirement Savings Plan in Several Countries
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits for You and Your Family
• Generous Time Off, Holiday Breaks and Summer Fridays
• Family-Focused Leave Benefits
• Cell Phone Subsidy
• Performance Management, and Investment in Diversity Initiatives
• Bonusly Peer-to-Peer Recognition Program, Turning Recognition into Tangible Perks and Magnite Swag
• Community Service Events
• Wellness Coach—Meditate and Recharge with an Unlimited User Account for You and a Plus One

Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environmentExperience with Rust, Go, Spark or other similar technologiesHands on experience with large scale, low latency, high performance distributed applicationsExperience working with distributed teams across multiple time zonesExperience with Hadoop, Kafka, Scylla, Cassandra or other scale data-based technologies8+ years of software development experience, 5 years of which should be at Senior Engineering Manager levelExperience leading teams with engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing and infrastructure as code