VP of Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and hold accountable engineering managers and individual contributors across the application stack, data pipelines, quality engineering, and cloud platform.

• Foster the development of technical leaders, minimize single points of failure, and scale the organization without reliance on individual heroics.

• Establish and uphold standards for technical judgment, ownership of delivery, collaboration, documentation, operational discipline, and customer impact.

• Manage engineering capacity planning, staffing allocations, the operating budget, expenditures related to cloud, data, AI, tooling, software vendors, and technical contracts.

• Collaborate with Product, UX, Data Science, and the Chief Product Officer to define the Polaris roadmap, sequence investments, identify dependencies, and make necessary trade-offs.

• Convert agency, client, and market needs into a technology strategy that encompasses Polaris IQ, shared data products, and measurement applications.

• Sustain an architecture roadmap that supports product growth while phasing out fragile systems, redundant capabilities, and unnecessary operational costs.

• Develop and oversee an engineering scorecard that tracks delivery speed and quality.

• Promote frequent deployments through automated testing, CI/CD, observability, release automation, and rapid feedback loops.

• Define and implement the engineering AI strategy by assessing coding agents, model providers, agent runtimes, and automation opportunities.

• Have ownership of the complete technical architecture across Python and Django services, React applications, PostgreSQL, Airflow, BigQuery, dbt, GKE, Cloud Run, Terraform, GitOps, Argo CD, and GitHub Actions.

• Ensure that data pipelines and systems provide accurate, timely, and observable data across advertising, analytics, commerce, and client data sources.

• Manage service-level objectives, incident management, corrective actions, capacity planning, and risk mitigation.

• Act as the final engineering escalation point for critical incidents and high-risk architectural decisions.

• Collaborate with Security and Legal to ensure secure architecture, identity and access management, secrets management, vendor risk, data governance, incident response, client assurance, and compliance.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 12 years of software engineering experience.

• At least 5 years of experience leading engineering managers and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

• Proven track record of building healthy teams, nurturing leaders, enhancing accountability, and delivering complex products in collaboration with cross-functional partners.

• Profound architectural judgment in modern SaaS applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and security.

• Direct experience with GCP and the Polaris stack is valuable; comparable technologies can also be considered.

• Expertise in enhancing developer productivity and delivery performance through platform capabilities, automation, testing, operational standards, and DevEx KPI reporting.

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development or agentic workflows.

• Experience in balancing speed with security, quality, cost, and maintainability.

• Accountability for cloud and software budgets, vendor relationships, capacity planning, and technical contract decisions.

• Calm and decisive leadership with the ability to transition between executive communication and hands-on technical analysis.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills for articulating risks, architecture, costs, or trade-offs to clients and non-technical leaders.

• A tendency towards building durable systems, explicit ownership, and effective delegation.

• Must have the ability to work in the United States.

• Not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.

• Extended Holiday break (Winter).

• 100% paid parental leave.

• 401(k) matching.

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Pet Insurance.

• Sponsored life insurance.

• Short Term Disability insurance and additional voluntary insurance.

• Annual Class Pass credits.

• Flexibility for remote work.

• Office hubs located in Los Angeles and New York for learning and development opportunities, events, workspace, and in-person collaboration.