Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

About Us

Permutive’s 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. Permutive’s data collaboration platform uses edge technology to securely process data where it is and AI to discover signals that drive performance—respecting consumers’ privacy preferences while delivering outcomes for publishers & advertisers.

Our customers include some of the world’s largest media companies and advertisers—including News Corp, Warner Brothers Discovery, Hearst, The Guardian, Sky, State Street, Sonos, and Apple—and we’re backed by leading investors like Soft Bank Vision Fund and Y Combinator.

Permutive’s 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 Permutive’s 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 Dev Ops and Info Sec engineers to own the end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of the infrastructure that underpins Permutive’s real-time, high-throughput/low-latency APIs and services.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager with strong technical expertise who stays closely involved in the work—this isn’t a hands-off management role, and we welcome candidates who are newer to people management.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading & mentoring a team of experienced Dev Ops and Security engineers, ensuring the team’s 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 Permutive’s 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.

You’ll sit within our engineering leadership group and report to the CTO.

• 5+ years in infrastructure, Dev Ops, 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, Cloud Formation, 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, Open Telemetry)
• Experience with incident management, postmortems, capacity planning, and resilience engineering

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 £115,000 - £135,000 + options.

• In this together: As a full-time employee, you'll 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.

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