Senior Manager, Moloco Ads Infrastructure

About Moloco:

Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations of all sizes to grow and unlock the full value of their unique first-party data, elevating the traditional path to performance advertising. While the largest technology companies have proven the speed and scale of ad-targeting utilizing data— the same robust performance powered by machine learning has previously been unavailable beyond their platforms. 

That's where Moloco steps in. With Moloco's powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, we play a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy, all while allowing companies to stay independent and scale.

An industry leader at the nexus of machine learning, performance marketing, and visionary product infrastructure, Moloco is advancing the advertising technology industry. We ranked in the top 10% of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2023. Recognized as one of 46 leading Cloud Computing companies, receiving the Stratus Award for 2023. In 2023, we received Google’s Cloud DevOps Dreamers Award, a recognition given to companies that are implementing DevOps practices to drive organizational success and high performance. Lastly, Moloco is a 2024-certified Great Place to Work! Check us out on Glassdoor and be sure to get an inside look at working at Moloco on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging will allow us the greatest opportunity to carry out our mission -- to empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced and results-driven Senior Manager to lead our technology platform efforts. This role demands a strong technical leader with a proven track record in managing cloud infrastructure, driving cost efficiency, and leading high-performing engineering teams. The ideal candidate will leverage their extensive experience in building large-scale distributed systems and implementing observability and reliability strategies to optimize our cloud spend and ensure the stability and performance of our infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Management & Reliability:
• Lead and manage a team of engineers responsible for cloud infrastructure, shared platforms, scalability, observability, and reliability.
• Establish and maintain a robust observability stack (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Jaeger) for monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of scalable and distributed systems.
• Team Leadership & Management:
• Provide strong leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Manage multiple organizations, setting clear goals, and driving performance.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop top engineering talent.
• Serve as a technical leader, and provide guidance on architecture decisions.
• Collaborate effectively with product engineering teams
• Technical Expertise:
• Leverage extensive experience in building and managing large-scale distributed systems.
• Utilize strong programming skills in Golang, Java, C, and Python.
• Apply deep knowledge of modern technology platforms
• Cloud Cost Efficiency:
• Develop and implement strategies to optimize cloud spending across multiple cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Analyze cloud usage patterns, identify cost-saving opportunities, and implement solutions to reduce unit costs.
• Build and maintain a platform for granular insights into engineering spend, enabling data-driven decisions.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of industry experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• 8+ years of management experience leading and managing multiple engineering organizations.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Proven track record of optimizing cloud reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Experience with geographically distributed engineering teams
• Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience at a fast paced startup environment.
• Deep experience with GCP
• Experience in AdTech

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives. For an overview of our global benefits, click here. 

Moloco Values

• Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success. 
• Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible. 
• Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value. 
• Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail. 

Additional Resources: 

• Moloco Company Blog 
• Moloco Leadership
• Moloco Newsroom 

Equal Opportunity: 

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression, and gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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