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Director, Engineering (Rainmaker)

Los Angeles, California, USA💼 Full-time💰 $160,000–$350,000🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead the Rainmaker Ad Server engineering domain to build and govern core systems for real-time ad decisioning, delivery, and targeting across Fox's streaming ecosystem.

Role type

Director of Engineering (Ad Server)

Builds

High-scale, low-latency ad serving platform and monetization infrastructure

Domain

Streaming media advertising technology (AdTech)

Required skills

distributed systems architecture, JVM/Scala, backend infrastructure, engineering leadership, cross-functional partnership, operational excellence, team building, system modernization

Preferred skills

AdTech domain expertise (ad serving, auction, targeting), Kubernetes, Terraform, experimentation frameworks, CTV/video advertising platforms

Technologies

Scala, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Kinesis, AWS, Databricks, Kubernetes, Terraform

Responsibilities

Set technical direction and roadmap for ad serving capabilities; drive architecture of distributed systems for ad decisioning and serving; build and coach a high-performing engineering organization; partner with Product, Data Science, and ML teams to improve monetization efficiency; establish engineering excellence through design reviews and incident management; identify and resolve architectural bottlenecks; champion platform simplification and performance optimization.

Seniority

Director, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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