Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

About Us

Permutive is the data collaboration platform that powers the advertising ecosystem.

We exist to build an advertising ecosystem that respects and adapts to consumers choices around their privacy and in doing so unlocks enormous uplifts in scale and outcomes for publishers and advertisers alike.

Trusted by 60% of Enterprise Media Companies across the US EMEA and LATAM we work with leaders such as News Corp Warner Bros Discovery Hearst Conde Nast dmg media BuzzFeed and The Guardian. Our technology enables them to drive >$1B in advertising spend across hundreds of millions of users without compromising user privacy.

Permutive works with many of the largest Advertisers enabling them to collaborate with Publishers to triple their audience reach and drive a doubling in incremental sales including with advertisers such as Sky Dentsu and Apple.

We leverage patented edge technology AI and cloud collaboration to safely process data where it is and our platform combines privacy-safe DMP data clean room and curation capabilities to unlock unmatched scale and precision for publishers advertisers agencies and retail media networks.

At Permutive Youll Help Our Customers:

• Achieve Better Outcomes: Leverage our unique position in the ad tech ecosystem to access broader audiences and improve outcomes.

• Boost Sales Significantly: Capitalize on 100% addressability to connect with the 70% of audiences beyond traditional cookies.

• Transform Collaboration Efficiency: Move from lengthy processes to seamless collaboration in minutes.

Join us as a key player in shaping the future of Permutive backed by leading investors like Softbank and EQT Ventures and recognised as a YCombinator Top 150 company.

The Team...

The Solutions Architecture team partners with customers to realise their full potential for growth & success with Permutive.

We are trusted advisors to technology leaders ad operations teams and C-level executives at the worlds largest publishers broadcasters and advertisers. As Permutive experts customers look to us for technical leadership navigating ecosystem changes and developing their data strategy through the use of our platform.

Internally we work closely with Permutives Engineering Product Customer Success and Sales Engineering teams identifying designing & building solutions on top of Permutives platform to solve novel business challenges our customers face.

The Role...

Forward Deployed Engineers are highly-technical customer-facing Permutive experts that build novel solutions on top of the Permutive platform. As a member of the team youll solve mission-critical business product and integration challenges and provide technical thought leadership to customers & partners.

Core Responsibilities

The Solutions Architecture team reports into the CTO org and has three primary responsibilities that youll be contributing to:

• Build customer stickiness through bespoke solutions: Our enterprise customers have bespoke needs over whats available out of the box in the platformso called last mile product gaps. These are often important for customers to maximise value from the platform. Further although the primary motivator for a churn will be commercial or product-driven compounding functionality within the platform for a customer makes the prospect of ripping out Permutive more daunting.

• Develop our ecosystem integration strategy: Integrations are an amplifier of the value we create for customers and a source of frustration when were not able to prioritise connecting their tools & data into Permutive. The Solutions Architecture team ensures the Permutive platform features a comprehensive catalog of integrations to connect to the wider ad-tech mar-tech and cloud ecosystem owning everything from the prioritisation of our integrations roadmap to partner relationships and commercials through to delivery & deployment.

• Partner with Sales Engineering: Complex enterprise deals can require novel or custom uses of our platform to solve a prospects needs. Solution Architects partner with Sales Engineersin particular our new Technical Sales Engineer roleto advise and help design solutions that could be delivered post-sale to meet a prospects unique needs. Similarly some new revenue opportunities are cross-sells into the parent organisation or sister companies of an existing customersuch as Warner Brothers Discoverand a Solution Architects command of the customers technical setup and how they drive value from Permutive can aid the cross-sell.

What youll be doing...

As an individual you can expect to be engaged day-to-day in the following activities:

• The majority of your time will be spent building on top of and extending Permutives platform. Youll be expanding Permutives footprint within existing accounts by building new platform capabilities and features that solve bespoke customer needs.

• Partner with Engineering to architect platforms that allow Permutive capabilities to be extended and built upon.

• Own our integration strategy with the wider ecosystem including managing building and increasing adoption of a catalog of platform integrations that amplify the value of Permutive to our customers.

• Conduct analysis & research on customers competitors and the ad-tech & data industries to drive thought leadership as a trusted advisor to key business and technical stakeholders within our customers.

• Lead engagements with customers to build a deep understanding of a customers business & data strategy objectives and act as an expert on architecture design and deployment discussions to apply Permutives solutions to customer challenges.

• Act as a partner to the Sales team providing technical advice & insight as a Technical Sales Engineer coordinates proof-of-concepts for prospective customers.

What youll need...

Technical expertise

• Proven engineering experience with TypeScript. Knowledge and practical experience with a JVM language (e.g. Java Kotlin). Ability to learn Scala as the majority of our platform is Scala.

• Experience employing infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and deploying software containerised software (Docker on Kubernetes) into production through CI/CD. Familiarity with Google Cloud Run or other serverless platforms is beneficial.

• It is expected that you have fluency with REST APIs and browser web developer tools; common storage layers like relational databases NoSQL databases and data warehouses; and streaming data pipelines such as Kafka.

• Demonstrated Software Engineering experience in a professional environment.

Collaboration & communication

• Available to be in the London office 1 day per week for close collaboration with CSMs SEs and Product & Engineering

• Ability to navigate complex technical challenges with a solutions-oriented mindset focused on crafting innovative tailored software solutions for enterprise customers.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills partnering with Customer Success Engineering Sales Engineering and Product to grow platform capabilities and deliver impactful POCs.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical details into business value for a wide range of stakeholders.

Industry & platform knowledge

• Strong understanding of the advertising technology ecosystem and the challenges faced by publishers & advertisers in a post-cookie world.

• Ability to build an expert command of all areas of the Permutive platform and adjacent cloud computing platforms like Snowflake Databricks GCP and AWS.

What were offering

We take a structured objective approach to salary-setting which is based on market information our compensation strategy and your experience and capability as assessed through our interview process. For a typical candidate who meets our requirements we would pay between 95000 (112000 OTE) - 123500 (145000 OTE) options.

Permutive Benefits

• In this together: As a full-time employee youll become a shareholder with stock options sharing in our collective success.

• Family Comes First: Primary caregivers receive up to 6 months of fully paid leave and secondary caregivers receive 3 months of fully paid leave to bond with their little ones.

• Your Time Your Way: Flexible hours let you fit work around your life whether its hitting the gym meditating or handling family needs.

• Upgraded Workspace: A 350 budget helps you create the perfect home office setup.

• Recharge & Refocus: Unlimited paid time off (with a minimum of 25 days public holidays) ensures you get the rest you need.

• Grow with Us: Ongoing training and development opportunities fuel your career aspirations.

• Mental Health Matters: We prioritise your well-being with free access to Spill our mental health partner.

• Comprehensive Care: Enjoy virtual GP visits healthcare services work-life consultations.

• Secure your future: Our pension plan with Penfold helps you secure your financial future (employer contributes 3% employee contributes 5%).

• A company-paid Cursor Pro subscription for all engineers.

Work Your Way

Permutive trusts you to manage your time and deliver results. Our hybrid model allows you to choose where you work best whether in your own productive space or our London (Farringdon) or New York (Union Square) offices. That said none of us work alone; we are part of a team.

To foster collaboration and connection teams in these locations come together in person at least once a week and are encouraged to benefit from being in our offices to meet with teams more often. Commercial and customer-facing teams are encouraged to embrace in-person interactions to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.

Every Permutive employee gets together in person at the companys Annual Kick Off for a week in February. Each years event promises to be an exciting opportunity for us to come together reconnect with colleagues and align on our shared vision for the year ahead.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion

At Permutive were taking a thoughtful intersectional long-term approach to diversity equity & inclusion. We care deeply about creating an inclusive work environment that allows everyone to flourish and we are taking continual action to progress in that direction.

Were committed to hiring people regardless of race religion colour national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity age neurodiversity status disability status or otherwise.

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