Job Description:We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. We enable companies to unlock value by making each transaction relevant at the moment that matters most, when customers are buying. Together, Rokt's AI-based relevance Platform and scaled ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions. In December 2022, Rokt's valuation increased to $2.4 billion USD, allowing us to expand rapidly across 15 countries.The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology.At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation.At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt'stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.We are looking for an
Engineering Manager for our
Customer Data Platform team.Compensation: $270,000-$300,000 including superannuation, employee equity plan grant & world class benefits.As a hands on
Engineering Manager in our
Customer Data Platform team, you will be leading an autonomous team, owning a large part of our data ingestion, processing and management platform, with a specific focus on extreme reliability, low latency, and the ability to build and scale high-throughput systems that handle petabytes of data through a combination of real-time data streaming and massive batch processing.A deep understanding of how to build and maintain systems at a global scale is key to this role, and the desire to get deep into the architecture now and into the future would be ideal. Having experience working on large scale distributed systems that cross geographically dispersed user bases would also be a major asset, as we're active in 14 markets globally, and are hosted over 4 AWS regions.
About the Role:- Lead the design, implementation and maintenance of massive data ingestion systems
- Manage and develop a team of autonomous and high performing engineers
- Cut production level code that can be built upon by your team and the wider Rokt organisation
- Identifying and proposing improvements to the current system architecture that emphasise reliability and scalability
- Work across the Rokt engineering org to optimise how we deal with data, from ingestion and cleanliness, through to how it's utilised by our Machine Learning teams.
Requirements:About You:- 10+ years of experience in commercial software development experience designing, building and operating distributed systems and 4+ years of experience in managing engineering teams
- Strong experience with a back end language like Go, Python or Scala would be ideal, but any back end language would be great
- Experience building and scaling large scale data ingestion systems. We run at petabyte scale using Kafka, so we'd love to see deep knowledge of data
- Solid exposure to complex cloud infrastructure and open-source systems would be a great fit, as we have a massive AWS-based infrastructure that we leverage across the organisation
- Leadership. Organise and motivate engineering contributors, work with the product team to understand business logic and be able to translate into appropriate technical solutions
Benefits:About Rokt'stars:As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock the full potential in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better.
About The Benefits:We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves, and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:
- Accelerate your career. We offer roadmaps to leadership and an annual $5000 training allowance
- Become a shareholder. Every Rokt'star gets equity in the company
- Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office. Plus join the gym on us!
- Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.)
- Work with the greatest talent in town
- See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London
We believe we're better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have the flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.If this sounds like a role you'd enjoy, apply here and you'll hear from our recruiting team.
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