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Engineering8 days agoOn-site

Moloco

Senior Engineering Manager (Ads Platform)

SDKbackendinfrastructureadsmeasurementdata pipelinesevent streamingengineering managementplatformAI-nativemonetizationsolutions engineeringscalabilityobservabilityrelease management

Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Director

Years experience

5-10

Location

Menlo Park, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States

Full job description

Lead the Ads Platform organization at Moloco, overseeing Measurements, SDK, Customer Solutions, and Ingestion Infrastructure engineering teams. Define technical direction and priorities, improve platform reliability, scalability, and maintainability. Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to build platform capabilities supporting AI-native publisher monetization. Require 8+ years software engineering experience, 3+ years engineering leadership, and expertise in SDK, backend systems, data measurement, or related ad tech domains. Bachelor's degree or equivalent required. Benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) with match, disability coverage, paid holidays, flexible time off, and potential bonus and equity awards.

What you'll do

  • Lead the Measurements, SDK, Customer Solutions, and Ingestion Infrastructure engineering teams and define technical direction, priorities, and operating cadence
  • Evolve the Ads Platform organization focusing on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and long-term technical health
  • Partner with peer engineering leaders to align client-side, platform, and backend architecture across Moloco’s ads ecosystem
  • Improve engineering quality across architecture, testing, release management, observability, incident response, and operational rigor
  • Coach and grow engineering managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders through feedback, mentorship, and clear expectations
  • Help attract and hire exceptional talent by contributing to org design, role definition, and candidate assessment
  • Work cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, Solutions Engineering, and business stakeholders to align roadmaps and execution plans
  • Define and build platform capabilities that support AI-native publisher monetization including new signal handling, integration, and ad experience requirements
  • Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand publisher needs and translate them into scalable platform investments
  • Drive cross-team alignment on ambiguous, multi-stakeholder technical problems and make pragmatic tradeoffs for long-term business impact

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience in SDK, backend systems, infrastructure, supply or mediation, creative platforms, or adjacent ad tech domains
  • 3+ years of engineering leadership experience as an engineering manager, tech lead manager, or equivalent
  • Experience in publisher SDK or mediation, data measurement or analytics pipelines, ingestion or event-streaming infrastructure, or technical customer solutions / solutions engineering
  • Experience leading cross-functional engineering initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and partner teams
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and translate broad business or product needs into clear engineering direction
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Tech stack

SDKbackend systemsinfrastructuredata measurementanalytics pipelinesevent-streaming infrastructureads measurementattributiondata pipeline engineeringclient-sideserver-side

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance401(k) plan with company matchShort-term and long-term disability coverageBasic life insuranceWell-being benefits and perksUp to 12 scheduled paid holidays per calendar yearOne Thrive Day off per quarterFlexible Time Off (FTO)Potential eligibility for bonus and equity awards

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