Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Jamloop is building high-scale advertising technology that processes massive volumes of real-time traffic. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their cloudops infrastructure and operations team, focusing on cloud infrastructure, production systems, and high-volume bidder software.
Responsibilities
- Manage and support a scrum team of 4 to 6 software and DevOps engineers
- Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, execution tracking, retrospectives, and delivery commitments
- Coach engineers through technical decision-making, operational ownership, prioritization, and professional growth
- Help create a team culture focused on accountability, reliability, continuous improvement, and pragmatic execution
- Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align infrastructure and bidder team priorities with company goals
- Oversee AWS-based cloud infrastructure supporting high-volume, low-latency bidder systems
- Manage cloud environments that process over 1 billion HTTP requests per hour
- Help operate and optimize millions of dollars of cloud infrastructure spend
- Identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve system utilization, and increase performance
- Drive improvements in observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, deployment safety, and operational readiness
- Ensure systems are designed and operated for scalability, reliability, availability, and maintainability
- Lead engineering work on high-volume bidder software for a demand-side platform
- Support backend systems where latency, throughput, uptime, and cost efficiency are business-critical
- Help the team make sound technical tradeoffs across performance, reliability, complexity, and delivery speed
- Collaborate with engineers on architecture, system design, code quality, deployment practices, and production operations
- Ensure the team maintains strong ownership of production services from design through deployment and ongoing operation
- Participate in production support processes and help ensure appropriate team coverage
- Be available outside standard business hours as needed to support critical deployments, production incidents, time-sensitive operational events, and team response coverage
- Lead or support incident reviews, root cause analysis, follow-up planning, and long-term reliability improvements
- Build processes that reduce operational toil and improve team response effectiveness over time
Skills
- 6+ years of professional experience in backend software engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or a related technical discipline
- 1+ year of experience leading engineers, managing projects, acting as a technical lead, or serving in an engineering management role
- Strong experience operating production systems on AWS
- Experience with high-scale, high-availability distributed systems
- Practical understanding of cloud networking, HTTP services, load balancing, service scaling, monitoring, deployment pipelines, and incident response
- Experience supporting systems where latency, throughput, reliability, and cost are important operational concerns
- Ability to manage technical priorities across infrastructure, operations, performance, and product delivery
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and business teams
- Comfortable staying close to technical details while also managing people, planning, execution, and delivery
- Experience with ad tech, real-time bidding, DSPs, bidder systems, auction systems, or other high-throughput transactional platforms
- Experience with Golang, Rust, or other high-performance software languages
- Experience managing or optimizing significant cloud infrastructure spend
- Experience with infrastructure as code, containerized workloads, CI/CD systems, observability platforms, and incident management workflows
- Experience improving system performance, reducing latency, or lowering cloud costs at scale
- Familiarity with scrum or agile engineering practices
- Prior experience moving from a senior engineer, DevOps engineer, SRE, or technical lead role into engineering management
Benefits
- Fully remote work options that our team loves
- You may occasionally be asked to join in-person jam sessions (a.k.a. events or team gatherings). Don’t worry, you'll have plenty of notice to set your schedule.
Company Overview
JamLoop is an OTT DSP advertising platform that helps brands reach Streaming TV audiences with real-time transparency. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://jamloop.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
JamLoop has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.