Senior Engineering Leader: Scale & Delivery

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

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