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Magnite lists this Director, Engineering opportunity in northern, Kentucky. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Director, Engineering New York City, NY Boston, MA Buffalo, NY East Coast Remote
At Magnite, we cultivate an environment of continuous growth and collaboration. Our work impacts what millions of people read, watch, and buy, and we’re looking for people to help us tackle that responsibility with creativity and focus. Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI) is the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV, online video, display, and audio. Our tech fuels billions of transactions per day!
In this role you will:
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
We’re looking for someone with:
8+ years of software development experience, 5 years of which should be at Senior Engineering Manager level
Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment
Experience leading teams with engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing and infrastructure as code
Hands on experience with large scale, low latency, high performance distributed applications
Experience with Hadoop, Kafka, Scylla, Cassandra or other scale data-based technologies
Experience with Rust, Go, Spark or other similar technologies
Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones
Our current tech stack:
Backend 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)
In NY, the base salary range for this role is $230,000 – $250,000.
Actual compensation will be determined based on location, experience, skills, and internal equity.
This role is also eligible for:
Annual performance-based bonus
Equity (NASDAQ: MGNI)
Comprehensive benefits package
Perks and Benefits:
Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage from Day One
Generous Time Off
Holiday Breaks and Quarterly Wellness Days
Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Family-Focused Benefits and Parental Leave
401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
Disability and Life Insurance
Cell Phone Subsidy
Monthly Fitness and Reimbursement
Career Growth: We support internal mobility, skill development, and leadership pathways through structured career frameworks and learning programs.
Company Culture:
Magnite’s culture is rooted in collaboration and connection, recognizing that both are essential to success. Our hybrid schedule includes two remote workdays (Monday and Friday) and three in-office days (Tuesday through Thursday), where employees can take advantage of catered lunches, beverages, snacks, training opportunities, and engaging office events that enhance the work experience. In addition, we support our team through meaningful benefits and programs, including community service and volunteer opportunities, company-matched charitable contributions, access to mental health resources, structured career development initiatives and growth frameworks, culture and inclusion programs, and our Bonusly peer-to-peer recognition platform.
About Us:
The world's leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. Anchored in bustling New York City, sunny Los Angeles, mile-high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Magnite is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other federal, state or local protected class.
Our Commitment:
We aim to incorporate a wide range of voices into our Magnite culture, cultivating an environment where employees feel welcomed, cared for, and encouraged to freely share ideas. We are committed to employee growth, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. We invest in Magnite’s local communities. We seek talent from all backgrounds to champion corporate values of seeing the big picture and being catalysts of change.
Want to learn more about us? Check out our blog for Magnite announcements and Ad Tech industry news!
Recruiting Agency Notice:
Magnite does not accept agency resumes and is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Magnite was born in 2020 when the programmatic ad pioneers at Rubicon Project teamed up with the CTV experts at Telaria. To accelerate our CTV ambitions, we acquired CTV leader SpotX and ad management platform SpringServe in 2021. Now, Magnite is the industry’s largest scaled, independent CTV/video ad platform. Though CTV and video are now as important to Magnite as ever, we remain committed to our roots as an omnichannel SSP. Thousands of publishers around the globe rely on our technology to sell advertising on their terms and across every channel and format—including CTV, desktop, mobile, and audio. Likewise, we help the world’s leading agencies and brands reach millions of consumers efficiently, safely, and while respecting their privacy. The Magnite team is made up of hundreds of people across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, and our stock is traded on NASDAQ as MGNI.
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