Senior Engineering Manager - Product Engineering

About the position

As part of the Production Engineering team—and as a people leader—you will be accountable not only for the health, stability, and reliability of Rokt’s critical cloud infrastructure, but also for the growth and performance of the engineers who support it. You will lead and inspire a team of engineers, setting clear goals, providing frequent feedback, and conducting performance reviews calibrated to company-wide standards. You’ll own the full lifecycle of our production platforms—design, build, release, operate, and continuously improve—ensuring they meet industry-leading SLAs for scalability, availability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic initiatives that harden our infrastructure while balancing cost and speed.
• Champion operational excellence by refining monitoring, alerting, and CI/CD pipelines, and by running high-quality post-incident reviews that convert learnings into preventative actions.
• Develop people and process through structured mentorship, pairing, technical design reviews, and by leading knowledge-sharing sessions that raise the engineering bar across the org.
• Represent Production Engineering in cross-functional forums—partnering with Product, Security, and Data teams to align roadmaps, negotiate trade-offs, and ensure client success.

Requirements

• 7+ years engineering experience (5+ in production cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP) including 2+ years in a formal or informal leadership or people-management role.
• Deep expertise with container orchestration (EKS or similar): deployment, scaling, policy enforcement, and day-two operations.
• Strong background in real-time event streaming and distributed systems (Kafka, Pulsar, SNS/SQS) at multi-region scale.
• Lead from the front - you aren’t afraid to get hands-on with the tech or dive in deep to unblock and empower the team.
• Demonstrated success hiring, coaching, and conducting performance reviews, using data and clear criteria to drive career progression and team effectiveness.
• Excellent communicator—able to articulate complex technical trade-offs to executives, cross-functional partners, and customers, both verbally and in writing.

Benefits

• Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company.
• Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office.
• Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents.
• Dog-friendly office.
• 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.
• Flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.