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We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager, Data & Analytics to lead a team responsible for operating, scaling, and evolving our large-scale advertising data and analytics ecosystem.
The team owns business-critical real-time and batch data systems supporting real-time reporting, scheduled reporting, ad-hoc analytics, log-level data, audiences, ad-serving use cases, observability, and machine-learning feedback loops.
This role requires a strong combination of technical leadership, people management, execution, and stakeholder management. The Engineering Manager will work closely with Engineering, Product, Business, Analytics, and ML teams to evolve the existing ecosystem while maintaining reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
Own the technical direction and evolution of large-scale real-time and batch analytics systems.
Scale streaming workloads built on technologies such as Kafka and Spark Streaming.
Evolve analytical and data-processing workloads across Snowflake, HDFS, and object storage.
Support real-time, scheduled, ad-hoc, and log-level reporting at advertising scale.
Drive improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, data quality, and infrastructure efficiency.
Modernize components of the existing ecosystem while protecting business-critical workloads.
Strengthen observability, monitoring, data lineage, SLAs/SLOs, and operational excellence.
Enable data capabilities supporting audiences, ad serving, experimentation, ML training and feedback loops, and AI-driven use cases.
Evaluate appropriate adoption of CPU/GPU accelerated computing and emerging data and AI technologies.Drive architecture reviews and establish strong engineering standards across the team.
Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team.
Hire and develop engineers and create strong technical leaders within the organization.
Establish clear ownership and accountability across critical systems.
Own roadmap planning, prioritization, execution, and delivery.
Balance new capabilities with technical debt, platform modernization, reliability, and operational commitments.
Lead incident reviews and drive systemic fixes to prevent recurring production problems.
Foster an engineering culture focused on ownership, technical excellence, simplicity, and measurable outcomes.
Partner closely with senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Business, Analytics, Trading, and Machine Learning.
Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical strategies.
Lead challenging discussions involving priorities, timelines, technical limitations, architecture, cost, and competing business requirements.
Challenge assumptions and requirements when necessary and provide data-driven alternatives.
Clearly communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and investment requirements to technical and non-technical leadership.
Build alignment across teams where ownership and priorities may not naturally align.
10+ years of engineering experience, with significant experience leading and managing engineering teams.
Proven experience hiring, mentoring, developing, and growing engineers and technical leaders.
Strong technical background in large-scale distributed data and analytics systems.
Hands-on architectural understanding of technologies such as Kafka, Spark/Spark Streaming, Snowflake, HDFS, and object storage.
Deep understanding of streaming, batch processing, distributed computing, data modeling, and analytical architectures.
Experience operating and evolving high-throughput, business-critical production systems.
Strong understanding of system scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and infrastructure cost optimization.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience working with senior technical and business leaders.
Demonstrated ability to navigate difficult conversations, resolve conflicting priorities, make trade-offs, and drive decisions.
Ability to connect business outcomes with technical strategy and engineering execution.
Experience with AdTech, high-scale real-time systems, audience platforms, ML/data infrastructure, or accelerated computing is a strong plus.
Success means scaling and evolving an established, business-critical data ecosystem while building a strong engineering organization around it.
The platform should become more reliable, scalable, observable, cost-efficient, and easier to operate, while continuing to support growing reporting, analytics, audience, ML, and AI use cases.
At the same time, the Engineering Manager should develop a team with strong technical ownership, consistently deliver against business priorities, and effectively navigate complex stakeholder discussions and competing priorities.
AI-Enabled Engineering Mindset: We value engineers who actively leverage Generative AI tools and IDEs (e.g. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf etc.) to accelerate development, improve code quality, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance documentation and debugging workflows. Engineers who demonstrate AI-first thinking using these tools to drive faster experimentation, ideation, and technical execution will thrive in our high-scale, performance-critical environment.
Additional Information: Return to Office: PubMatic employees throughout the global have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.
Benefits: Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide, such as paternity/maternity leave, healthcare insurance, broadband reimbursement. As well, when we’re back in the office, we all benefit from a kitchen loaded with healthy snacks and drinks and catered lunches and much more!
Diversity and Inclusion: PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don’t just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
PubMatic is of the world’s leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.
Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.
Own the technical direction and evolution of large-scale real-time and batch analytics systems.
Scale streaming workloads built on technologies such as Kafka and Spark Streaming.
Evolve analytical and data-processing workloads across Snowflake, HDFS, and object storage.
Support real-time, scheduled, ad-hoc, and log-level reporting at advertising scale.
Drive improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, data quality, and infrastructure efficiency.
Modernize components of the existing ecosystem while protecting business-critical workloads.
Strengthen observability, monitoring, data lineage, SLAs/SLOs, and operational excellence.
Enable data capabilities supporting audiences, ad serving, experimentation, ML training and feedback loops, and AI-driven use cases.
Evaluate appropriate adoption of CPU/GPU accelerated computing and emerging data and AI technologies.Drive architecture reviews and establish strong engineering standards across the team.
Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team.
Hire and develop engineers and create strong technical leaders within the organization.
Establish clear ownership and accountability across critical systems.
Own roadmap planning, prioritization, execution, and delivery.
Balance new capabilities with technical debt, platform modernization, reliability, and operational commitments.
Lead incident reviews and drive systemic fixes to prevent recurring production problems.
Foster an engineering culture focused on ownership, technical excellence, simplicity, and measurable outcomes.
Partner closely with senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Business, Analytics, Trading, and Machine Learning.
Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical strategies.
Lead challenging discussions involving priorities, timelines, technical limitations, architecture, cost, and competing business requirements.
Challenge assumptions and requirements when necessary and provide data-driven alternatives.
Clearly communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and investment requirements to technical and non-technical leadership.
Build alignment across teams where ownership and priorities may not naturally align.
10+ years of engineering experience, with significant experience leading and managing engineering teams.
Proven experience hiring, mentoring, developing, and growing engineers and technical leaders.
Strong technical background in large-scale distributed data and analytics systems.
Hands-on architectural understanding of technologies such as Kafka, Spark/Spark Streaming, Snowflake, HDFS, and object storage.
Deep understanding of streaming, batch processing, distributed computing, data modeling, and analytical architectures.
Experience operating and evolving high-throughput, business-critical production systems.
Strong understanding of system scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and infrastructure cost optimization.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience working with senior technical and business leaders.
Demonstrated ability to navigate difficult conversations, resolve conflicting priorities, make trade-offs, and drive decisions.
Ability to connect business outcomes with technical strategy and engineering execution.
Experience with AdTech, high-scale real-time systems, audience platforms, ML/data infrastructure, or accelerated computing is a strong plus.
What Success Looks Like
The platform should become more reliable, scalable, observable, cost-efficient, and easier to operate, while continuing to support growing reporting, analytics, audience, ML, and AI use cases.
At the same time, the Engineering Manager should develop a team with strong technical ownership, consistently deliver against business priorities, and effectively navigate complex stakeholder discussions and competing priorities.
AI-Enabled Engineering Mindset:
Return to Office**: PubMatic employees throughout the global have returned to our offices via a hybrid work schedule (3 days “in office” and 2 days “working remotely”) that is intended to maximize collaboration, innovation, and productivity among teams and across functions.
Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide, such as paternity/maternity leave, healthcare insurance, broadband reimbursement. As well, when we’re back in the office, we all benefit from a kitchen loaded with healthy snacks and drinks and catered lunches and much more!
PubMatic is of the world’s leading scaled digital advertising platforms, offering more transparent advertising solutions to publishers, media buyers, commerce companies and data owners, allowing them to harness the power and potential of the open internet to drive better business outcomes.
Founded in 2006 with the vision that data-driven decisioning would be the future of digital advertising, we enable content creators to run a more profitable advertising business, which in turn allows them to invest back into the multi-screen and multi-format content that consumers demand.
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What is the salary for this role?
Salary details will be discussed during the interview.
What experience is required?
10+ yrs of experience is required.
Is this position still open?
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