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Director, Engineering New York City, NY Boston, MA Buffalo, NY East Coast Remote

At Magnite, we cultivate an environment of continuous growth and collaboration. Our work impacts what millions of people read, watch, and buy, and we’re looking for people to help us tackle that responsibility with creativity and focus. Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI) is the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV, online video, display, and audio. Our tech fuels billions of transactions per day!

• Leadership Have full responsibility for multiple engineering teams including ownership of software development and delivery, SDLC, software quality, and people management
• Own alignment of teams to business and strategic goals
• Continue to build and develop your teams to meet the future needs of the organization
• Perform resource forecasting and planning to meet product release plans
• Handle management and governance of incidents, problems, and changes including escalations, meeting SLAs, and driving best practice across teams
• Conduct performance reviews & appraisals
• Mentor engineers and leaders within your department
• Teams & People Inspire a team and motivate people around a shared vision
• Have excellent communication, planning, and organizational skills
• Work closely with Tech Lead(s) to develop and grow team members
• Manage, focus and ensure team execution and delivery
• Provide team/project status and metrics
• Communication & Collaboration Be a central point of contact for key stakeholders across the business, including planning, prioritization, and estimation to ensure business needs are met
• Cascade communication - foster and ensure relevant communication of information necessary to teams
• Provide external communication about team execution and delivery status and metrics
• Be the primary liaison with Product / Product Owners and other stakeholders

• 8+ years of software development experience, 5 years of which should be at Senior Engineering Manager level
• Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Experience leading teams with engineering practices including DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing and infrastructure as code
• Hands on experience with large scale, low latency, high performance distributed applications
• Experience with Hadoop, Kafka, Scylla, Cassandra or other scale data-based technologies
• Experience with Rust, Go, Spark or other similar technologies
• Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones

• Backend Golang, Rust, Java / Spring Boot
• ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes Spark Docker
• ALB, HAProxy RDS, MariaDB, Postgres
• Redis, Memcache Kafka, SNS, SQS
• RESTful API Microservice architectures
• Terraform, Github Actions, Jenkins
• JavaScript / TypeScript / React Linux (both on-premise and AWS)

In NY, the base salary range for this role is $230,000 – $250,000.

Actual compensation will be determined based on location, experience, skills, and internal equity.

• Annual performance-based bonus
• Equity (NASDAQ: MGNI)
• Comprehensive benefits package

• Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage from Day One
• Generous Time Off
• Holiday Breaks and Quarterly Wellness Days
• Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Family-Focused Benefits and Parental Leave
• 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
• Disability and Life Insurance
• Cell Phone Subsidy
• Monthly Fitness and Reimbursement
• Career Growth: We support internal mobility, skill development, and leadership pathways through structured career frameworks and learning programs.

Magnite’s culture is rooted in collaboration and connection, recognizing that both are essential to success. Our hybrid schedule includes two remote workdays (Monday and Friday) and three in-office days (Tuesday through Thursday), where employees can take advantage of catered lunches, beverages, snacks, training opportunities, and engaging office events that enhance the work experience. In addition, we support our team through meaningful benefits and programs, including community service and volunteer opportunities, company-matched charitable contributions, access to mental health resources, structured career development initiatives and growth frameworks, culture and inclusion programs, and our Bonusly peer-to-peer recognition platform.

The world's leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. Anchored in bustling New York City, sunny Los Angeles, mile-high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.

Magnite is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other federal, state or local protected class.

We aim to incorporate a wide range of voices into our Magnite culture, cultivating an environment where employees feel welcomed, cared for, and encouraged to freely share ideas. We are committed to employee growth, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. We invest in Magnite’s local communities. We seek talent from all backgrounds to champion corporate values of seeing the big picture and being catalysts of change.

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Magnite does not accept agency resumes and is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Magnite was born in 2020 when the programmatic ad pioneers at Rubicon Project teamed up with the CTV experts at Telaria. To accelerate our CTV ambitions, we acquired CTV leader SpotX and ad management platform SpringServe in 2021. Now, Magnite is the industry’s largest scaled, independent CTV/video ad platform. Though CTV and video are now as important to Magnite as ever, we remain committed to our roots as an omnichannel SSP. Thousands of publishers around the globe rely on our technology to sell advertising on their terms and across every channel and format—including CTV, desktop, mobile, and audio. Likewise, we help the world’s leading agencies and brands reach millions of consumers efficiently, safely, and while respecting their privacy. The Magnite team is made up of hundreds of people across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, and our stock is traded on NASDAQ as MGNI.