Engineering Team Leader - Platform Engineering
Core
Lead and mentor a team of 8–10 systems and backend engineers to own the platform and infrastructure for a real-time bidding platform processing 20M+ requests/second.
Role type
Senior Engineering Team Leader (Platform Engineering)
Builds
Self-service tooling for deployment, monitoring, databases, load balancing, and Kubernetes infrastructure for the Bidding Platform.
Domain
AdTech / Real-time bidding / Distributed systems
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Technical leadership, distributed systems architecture, systems engineering, performance analysis, concurrent programming, code review, platform productization, cross-team communication
Preferred skills
Experience building platform capabilities as products, capacity planning, on-call framework design
Technologies
Java, Python, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Aerospike, Memcached, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, MinIO, Kafka, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Jenkins, Graphite
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a team of ~8–10 engineers; Own the vision and roadmap for the platform layer; Delegate ownership of platform areas to senior engineers; Deliver self-service platforms with clear usage contracts; Base decisions on data through experiments; Own the framework for dispatching on-call alarms; Participate in IT-wide capacity planning.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities