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Lead and support the Infrastructure/DevOps team, ensuring system reliability and operational health while guiding technical decisions and fostering growth.
StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
About the Team:
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Infrastructure / DevOps team, responsible for the delivery, operational health, and execution of infrastructure work that supports critical production systems across the organization.
This role requires a strong technical foundation to guide decisions and support the team, but success is driven by effective prioritization, clear direction, and people leadership—rather than individual contribution.
What You'll Be Doing:- Lead, coach, and support a team of Infrastructure / DevOps engineers, fostering growth, sustainable workloads, and long-term engagement
- Own planning and delivery for the team, ensuring priorities are clear, commitments are met, and ownership is well-defined
- Be accountable for system reliability, incident response practices, and post-incident follow-ups that drive measurable improvements over time
- Provide technical oversight by reviewing designs, guiding architectural decisions, and helping the team navigate trade-offs
- Ensure documentation, runbooks, and operational standards are consistently maintained and evolved
- Act as the primary point of accountability when partnering with cross-functional teams, enabling infrastructure work that supports the broader organization
What You'll Bring to the Table:
- Experience managing engineers in a people leadership role
- A background in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Hands-on experience operating production systems in AWS
- Strong working knowledge of Linux, Kubernetes, and containerized systems
- Experience with infrastructure as code, with Terraform required
- Comfort leading teams through incidents and operational challenges with a focus on learning and improvement
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
StackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability (or superpower) status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. If you have any requests or requirements to support you throughout any part of the interview process, please let our Talent team know.
We use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.
About StackAdapt
We've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. We've been awarded:
Ad Age Best Places to Work 2024
G2 Top Software and Top Marketing and Advertising Product for 2024
Campaign’s Best Places to Work 2023 for the UK
2024 Best Workplaces for Women and in Canada by Great Place to Work®
#1 DSP on G2 and leader in a number of categories including Cross-Channel Advertising
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Top Skills
AWS
Kubernetes
Linux
Terraform
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