Senior Engineering Manager, Pixel Service

Job Description

Quantcast is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to work on the Pixel Service in our London office. As the real-time pulse of the Internet, Quantcast runs the world’s largest AI-driven insights and measurement platform directly quantifying over 100 million web destinations. Using machine learning to drive human learning, Quantcast provides brand marketers and publishers with meaningful audience insights, predictive targeting and measurement solutions across the customer journey. At the core of Quantcast is a real-time bidding system that addresses advertising opportunities across the open internet. This system processes over 4 million bid opportunities per second, where each bid opportunity must be evaluated and responded to in under 100ms (including transit time). Scoring and processing are supported by over 25,000 cores at peak load. For insights, Quantcast hosts another large scale product called Measure that monitors and visualizes 100M+ web and mobile destinations. The Pixel Service is directly used to enable the Measure product. London is one of 3 engineering centers from where Quantcast builds, operates, and improves its entire tech stack. Quantcast follows a total ownership model with each team owning development, QA, and operations for their software. In London, we build and run core services for Quantcast’s advertising product, such as our inventory platform, Real-Time Bidding (RTB) platform, Pixel Service, our anti-fraud & brand-safety systems, and client-facing campaign configuration services. We are looking for experienced engineer managers with a real passion to lead a team of engineers on high scale, low latency internet products. As a leader on the Pixel Service, you are responsible for a team that develops and operates one of the most important and sophisticated systems at Quantcast. This means scaling and operating a multi-region distributed system, with tight latency and availability SLAs, while controlling costs and meeting the needs of your customers.

Responsibilities:

• Scale the Pixel Service to drive business outcomes while controlling costs
• Work closely with principals engineers to develop, circulate, and execute on a technical roadmap
• Develop strong relationships with your customers in order to anticipate and meet their needs
• Coach and develop the members of your team from both a technical and soft skill perspective
• Build a well-balanced team by partnering with talent acquisition

Requirements:

• 5+ years of engineering experience, 3+ years experience in engineering management, developing technically strong teams
• Experience developing and operating real time low latency, high volume distributed systems
• Experience with all phases of software development (design, development, test, operations, end-of-life)
• Experience building and operating distributed systems on one of the major cloud platforms
• The ideal candidate would have hands-on experience with either Real Time Bidding (RTB) in AdTech space, High Frequency Trading (HFT) systems, or something of similar scale.

Quantcast is an advertising technology company and the creator of an innovative intelligent audience platform that empowers brands, agencies and publishers to know and grow their audiences online. Our solutions are leveling the playing field for our customers when it comes to effectively reaching audiences online and helping them power a thriving free and open internet for everyone. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, Quantcast has employees in 20 offices across 10 countries. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone can be their authentic self. We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Recognizing the importance of flexible work environments, Quantcast has adopted a hybrid work model. The model gives employees the opportunity to work from home two days a week and work in the office for team collaboration for the remainder of the time. The effectiveness of the implementation may differ based on location or team, so please consult with your manager for further information. Through at least the end of 2021, we are providing additional flexibility, including relaxing the in-office schedule and offering flexibility around the number of days and which day one is required to be in the office. Hybrid employees can also work remotely for two weeks each year or apply for our fully-remote work program. To ensure the safety of everyone, all U.S. employees working from a Quantcast office or who meet clients are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Outside of the U.S., we encourage all employees to get vaccinated. Apply for this job