Engineering Manager

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Come lead a high‑impact engineering team at Vantage and own the backbone that powers our platform. In your role as Engineering Manager, you’ll helm the vision of our backend platform and data pipelines, improve the reliability of our systems with clear SLOs, accelerate development, and scale our cloud operations. You’ll also coach engineers of all levels, manage sprints, and partner with our Site Reliability Engineering team.

Our core platform runs in Azure with footprints in AWS and GCP, and a stack that includes Python, Django, Celery, Rabbit

MQ, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, Snowflake, and React Type Script.

• 3 to 5+ years managing software engineering teams.
• 7 to 10+ years total engineering experience shipping and operating backend systems.
• Proven success in leading platform and data pipeline work that serves multiple teams.
• Strong cloud fundamentals with Azure or AWS.
• Solid backend experience, including B2B API design and integration.
• Experience leading observability and on‑call initiatives, including establishing and meeting SLOs and SLIs, distributed tracing with Open Telemetry, logging, alerting and post‑incident reviews.
• Experience with data pipelines: design, scheduling, and operation of ETL or ELT with Snowflake and object storage.
• Experience working in a security‑minded environment, having worked with concepts such as Least privilege, key rotation, vulnerability management, and data protection.
• Track record of hiring, mentoring, and performance‑managing engineers across levels.
• Clear written and verbal communication. Comfortable collaborating with Product, Data, and Security.

• Experience with Celery, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, and Django.
• Experience with AWS EMR and S3.
• Experience with Snowflake performance tuning, warehouse sizing, and cost governance.
• Experience managing SREs.
• Experience with CI/CD and Dev Ops.

• People leadership:
  Hire, mentor, and grow a mixed‑level team with clear goals and regular feedback.
• Software Delivery:
  Ensure predictable delivery with clear scope, milestones, and acceptance criteria; enforce quality gates and rollback plans; coordinate cross‑team dependencies and cutovers.
• Reliability:
  Define SLOs and error budgets; govern resilience practices. Be hands‑on during high‑severity incidents when needed.
• Developer velocity:
  Own SDLC and CI/CD governance, shorten feedback loops, streamline releases, and reduce engineering toil.
• Data platform:
  Own ETL orchestration, data quality controls, and recovery playbooks.
• Cloud cost:
  Own budgets and cost governance. Drive cost‑aware design and capacity reviews without performance regressions.
• Platform architecture:
  Set service and API standards, manage technical debt, lead design reviews, and direct performance tuning and scalability efforts.
• Observability:
  Set standards for SLIs, tracing with Open Telemetry, logging, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks. Ensure adoption across teams.
• Incident response:
  Lead on‑call practices and incident command. Run post‑incident reviews that produce preventive improvements.
• SRE partnership:
  Collaborate daily on reliability practices and tooling. Help define future reporting lines with leadership.

Vantage is the first unified platform purpose‑built for retail media orchestration, empowering enterprise retailers to seamlessly activate onsite, off‑site, and in‑store advertising. With a global presence in North America and Asia‑Pacific, Vantage enables retailers to launch and grow their media networks through scalable technology and automated workflows, and is trusted by leading retailers like The Home Depot to power their retail media programs.

For a closer look at what we do, our culture, and our benefits, check out our About Us and Careers pages.

Vantage is proudly headquartered in Toronto, but we’re a remote‑first team spread across North America (and beyond). Our flexible work philosophy means team members can thrive from wherever they do their best work—whether that’s from a home office, a local café, or while adding stamps…