Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

About Us

Permutives mission is to rebuild data in advertising to protect privacy. The open internet needs a sustainable foundation that funds the free & open online experiences we all rely on. Permutives data collaboration platform uses edge technology to securely process data where it is and AI to discover signals that drive performancerespecting consumers privacy preferences while delivering outcomes for publishers & advertisers.

Our customers include some of the worlds largest media companies and advertisersincluding News Corp Warner Brothers Discovery Hearst The Guardian Sky State Street Sonos and Appleand were backed by leading investors like SoftBank Vision Fund and Y Combinator.

About The Role

Permutives Infrastructure team is responsible for the reliability scalability security and cost of our platform and the productivity & experience of our engineers. We build the foundational infrastructure for Permutives platform and products which operate at huge scale with hundreds of thousands of RPS across billions of monthly end-users.

As an Engineering Manager you will lead a team of DevOps and InfoSec engineers to own the end-to-end design implementation and operation of the infrastructure that underpins Permutives real-time high-throughput/low-latency APIs and services.

Were looking for an Engineering Manager with strong technical expertise who stays closely involved in the workthis isnt a hands-off management role and we welcome candidates who are newer to people management.

What youll be doing

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading & mentoring a team of experienced DevOps and Security engineers ensuring the teams oriented in a deliberate direction against a compelling roadmap while fostering individuals growth and career development.

• Collaborating with our engineering leadership to define and execute initiatives for Permutives core infrastructure and security posture.

• Driving technical decisions architectural improvements cost efficiencies and vendor management for a large-scale distributed cloud platform.

• Partnering with Engineering and Product teams across Permutive to identify and implement infrastructure tooling that promotes reliability velocity and autonomy.

• Overseeing the management of our security processes including audits and compliance efforts such as SOC 2.

Youll sit within our engineering leadership group.

What youll need

• 5 years in infrastructure DevOps security SRE or platform engineering roles

• 2 years in a people leadership role managing engineers

• Strong track record building scaling and operating complex distributed systems in cloud environments

• Strong communication stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms preferably GCP

• Experience with containerization & orchestration (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation etc.) messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) and databases (from Postgres to Bigtable & Redis)

• Proficient in infrastructure languages (e.g. Go Python) and familiarity with the JVM for our application stack

• Solid experience building CI/CD pipelines and automating deployment workflows

• Proficiency in monitoring logging tracing tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry)

• Experience with incident management postmortems capacity planning and resilience engineering

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 115000 - 135000 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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