Rokt
Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering
Rokt - Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
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$250,000.00/yr - $315,000.00/yr mParticle by Rokt
is widely recognized as one of the leading customer data platforms, serving hundreds of global brands and helping them turn data to insights and insights to action. Built on top of end-to-end streaming architecture, we are committed to empowering businesses to deliver personalized and engaging experiences to their customers across all screens and devices. We believe that the opportunity to help teams activate insights from their customer data to deliver more relevant and adaptive experiences is more important than ever. In January 2025 mParticle merged with Rokt and became mParticle by Rokt. Together, our AI and ML-powered Rokt Brain and ecommerce Rokt Network will power more than 6.5 billion transactions, connecting 400 million customers across the world's leading companies.
We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader.
Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce, unlocking real-time relevance in the moment that matters most. Rokt's AI Brain and ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions connecting hundreds of millions of customers, and is trusted to do this by the world's leading companies.
We are a team of builders helping smart businesses find innovative ways to meet customer needs and generate incremental revenue. Leading companies drive 10-50% of additional revenue—and often all their profits—from the extra products or services they sell. This economic edge unleashes a world of possibilities for growth and innovation.
The mParticle by Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technolog y that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to understand consumers better. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day. It considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams, and gain exposure to a wide range of technology.
At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation.
At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt'stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.
As part of the Production Engineering team—and as a people leader—you will be accountable not only for the health, stability, and reliability of Rokt's critical cloud infrastructure, but also for the growth and performance of the engineers who support it. You will lead and inspire a team of engineers, setting clear goals, providing frequent feedback, and conducting performance reviews calibrated to company-wide standards. You'll own the full lifecycle of our production platforms—design, build, release, operate, and continuously improve—ensuring they meet industry-leading SLAs for scalability, availability, and performance.
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager - Product Engineering
Target total compensation
ranges from $375,000 - $515,000, including a fixed annual salary of $250,000 - $315,000, an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits.
Equity grants are issued in good faith, subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility.
About The Role
Drive strategic initiatives that harden our infrastructure while balancing cost and speed. Champion operational excellence by refining monitoring, alerting, and CI/CD pipelines, and by running high-quality post-incident reviews that convert learnings into preventative actions. Develop people and process through structured mentorship, pairing, technical design reviews, and by leading knowledge-sharing sessions that raise the engineering bar across the org. Represent Production Engineering in cross-functional forums—partnering with Product, Security, and Data teams to align roadmaps, negotiate trade-offs, and ensure client success.
Requirements
About You:
7+ years engineering experience (5+ in production cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP) including 2+ years in a formal or informal leadership or people-management role. Deep expertise with container orchestration (EKS or similar): deployment, scaling, policy enforcement, and day-two operations. Strong background in real-time event streaming and distributed systems (Kafka, Pulsar, SNS/SQS) at multi-region scale. Lead from the front - you aren't afraid to get hands-on with the tech or dive in deep to unblock and empower the team. Demonstrated success hiring, coaching, and conducting performance reviews, using data and clear criteria to drive career progression and team effectiveness. Excellent communicator—able to articulate complex technical trade-offs to executives, cross-functional partners, and customers, both verbally and in writing.
Benefits
About Rokt'stars:
As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock real-time relevancy in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks, or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team, never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency, and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better.
About The Benefits
We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves, and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:
Become a shareholder. Every Rokt'star gets equity in the company Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office. Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents. Dog-friendly office Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.) Work with the greatest talent in town See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London
We believe we're better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have the flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.
We at Rokt choose to create a company that is as diverse and inclusive as the world we live in by attracting, growing & keeping the best talent. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If this sounds like a role you'd enjoy, apply here, and you'll hear from our recruiting team. Seniority level
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$250,000.00/yr - $315,000.00/yr mParticle by Rokt
is widely recognized as one of the leading customer data platforms, serving hundreds of global brands and helping them turn data to insights and insights to action. Built on top of end-to-end streaming architecture, we are committed to empowering businesses to deliver personalized and engaging experiences to their customers across all screens and devices. We believe that the opportunity to help teams activate insights from their customer data to deliver more relevant and adaptive experiences is more important than ever. In January 2025 mParticle merged with Rokt and became mParticle by Rokt. Together, our AI and ML-powered Rokt Brain and ecommerce Rokt Network will power more than 6.5 billion transactions, connecting 400 million customers across the world's leading companies.
We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader.
Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce, unlocking real-time relevance in the moment that matters most. Rokt's AI Brain and ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions connecting hundreds of millions of customers, and is trusted to do this by the world's leading companies.
We are a team of builders helping smart businesses find innovative ways to meet customer needs and generate incremental revenue. Leading companies drive 10-50% of additional revenue—and often all their profits—from the extra products or services they sell. This economic edge unleashes a world of possibilities for growth and innovation.
The mParticle by Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technolog y that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to understand consumers better. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day. It considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams, and gain exposure to a wide range of technology.
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At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt'stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.
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We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager - Product Engineering
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ranges from $375,000 - $515,000, including a fixed annual salary of $250,000 - $315,000, an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits.
Equity grants are issued in good faith, subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility.
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Drive strategic initiatives that harden our infrastructure while balancing cost and speed. Champion operational excellence by refining monitoring, alerting, and CI/CD pipelines, and by running high-quality post-incident reviews that convert learnings into preventative actions. Develop people and process through structured mentorship, pairing, technical design reviews, and by leading knowledge-sharing sessions that raise the engineering bar across the org. Represent Production Engineering in cross-functional forums—partnering with Product, Security, and Data teams to align roadmaps, negotiate trade-offs, and ensure client success.
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7+ years engineering experience (5+ in production cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP) including 2+ years in a formal or informal leadership or people-management role. Deep expertise with container orchestration (EKS or similar): deployment, scaling, policy enforcement, and day-two operations. Strong background in real-time event streaming and distributed systems (Kafka, Pulsar, SNS/SQS) at multi-region scale. Lead from the front - you aren't afraid to get hands-on with the tech or dive in deep to unblock and empower the team. Demonstrated success hiring, coaching, and conducting performance reviews, using data and clear criteria to drive career progression and team effectiveness. Excellent communicator—able to articulate complex technical trade-offs to executives, cross-functional partners, and customers, both verbally and in writing.
Benefits
About Rokt'stars:
As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock real-time relevancy in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks, or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team, never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency, and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better.
About The Benefits
We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves, and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:
Become a shareholder. Every Rokt'star gets equity in the company Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office. Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents. Dog-friendly office Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.) Work with the greatest talent in town See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London
We believe we're better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have the flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.
We at Rokt choose to create a company that is as diverse and inclusive as the world we live in by attracting, growing & keeping the best talent. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If this sounds like a role you'd enjoy, apply here, and you'll hear from our recruiting team. Seniority level
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