Director of Engineering, Muck Rack
$200-221k
+ Quarterly Bonus
Public Relations software
Open for applications
Public Relations software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-221k
+ Quarterly Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform the way companies engage with the media.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in engineering, with a track record of managerial, architectural, and technical contributions successes
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams in a start-up / Software-as-a-Service or comparable consumer-facing environment
- We value strong, relevant technical experience leading up to your commitment to the management path. Fluency or high proficiency in some or all our tech stack: Django, Vitess, MySQL, RabbitMQ, AWS is ideal
- Experience in hiring, training, and motivating engineering teams in a remote-first environment
- We do our best work with creative, open-minded problem solvers and strategists
- We appreciate decisiveness, clear communication, and collaboration. You should as well
What the job involves
- Muck Rack’s Engineering team powers a platform that is meaningfully changing how journalists, PR pros, and marketers around the world work. We’re looking for a visionary and experienced director, engineering to lead our Platform and DevOps functions
- Reporting directly to the VP of engineering, a successful candidate will have oversight of and make significant contributions to the technical vision and strategy for our platform, ensuring its efficiency, stability, and scalability
- Through their teams, they are responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of our robust infrastructure, our release processes through CI/CD pipelines, and championing automation, resilience, observability, and other best practices
- This role will also involve fostering a security-first mindset, managing budgets, and liaising with stakeholders across departments
- As a team leader, the director will build, mentor, and guide a high-performing and multi-disciplinary team in a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence
- Define the technical vision and strategy for the platform and DevOps functions
- Collaborate with CTOs, VP of Engineering, and other technical leaders to align the platform's strategic goals with the company’s objectives
- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing platform and DevOps team
- Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and performance expectations
- Oversee the design, deployment, and maintenance of scalable and robust infrastructure, while monitoring and optimizing for performance and cost
- Ensure the high availability, performance, and security of the platform
- Automate, automate, automate!
- Develop and enforce best practices in operations, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management
- Work closely with security and production management teams to ensure the platform best practices and compliance standards. Be the voice in the room bringing them in early
- Communicate platform capabilities, limitations, and roadmaps to stakeholders, and be the liaison between stakeholders and your teams
- Negotiate contracts and service-level agreements (SLAs) to ensure optimal value and performance
- Encourage and facilitate continuous learning, certifications, and training sessions
Application process
- 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
- A 1 hour video interview with the hiring manager
- Peer interviews with the Platform and DevOps team
- 30 min Q&A with the hiring manager
- Final call(s) with executive team member(s)
Our take
Muck Rack was founded in 2009 as a platform for businesses to connect with journalists. As of 2022, tens of thousands of journalists have profiles on Muck Rack that are available for businesses such as Google, Pfizer, and Duolingo to browse and employ writers from.
The nature of journalism has evolved since Muck Rack’s founding, with social media and digital outlets taking demand away from printed publications. As the landscape changes, Muck Rack has expanded their services to include a Public Relations Management platform.
It’s moves like this, as well as their shift into being a “distributed” business (hybrid or remote) that has ignited a renewed confidence in Muck Rack from investors. Though the company has been bootstrapped since its founding, Muck Rack received its first outside funding to the sum of $180 million in 2022, exemplifying how important investors deem their platform to be.
With its substantial funding, the future is bright for Muck Rack, though they will have to think carefully about how to advance the platform. Digital content can go viral in a matter of hours, and the creators are not always journalists.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Fully distributed - Much Rack are committed to a permanent, fully remote environment, core to the way they do business.
- Geo-neutral compensation - Much Rack believe in equitable pay regardless of where you live.
- Time off - 4+ weeks off-the-grid vacation, sick and mental health days, and company holidays.
- Insurance - Health, vision, and dental coverage paid at 100% for individuals
- Retirement planning - MUck Rack contribute 3% of your annual salary to your 401k automatically.
- Paid parental leave - 8 weeks fully paid bonding for all parents + up to 8 weeks fully paid recovery from childbirth.
- Full WFH set up - Including monthly phone/internet reimbursement and coworking stipend.
- Learning & development - Take advantage of unlimited access to learning platforms and regular training opportunities.
- No meeting Fridays - Take control of your calendar, and make time for reflection and deep-focus tasks
Company HQ
Brickell, Miami, FL
Leadership
Gregory Galant
(CEO)Currently CEO & Co-Founder of the Shorty Awards for social media. Previously CEO of RadioTail and Chairman of Halenet.
Lee Semel
(CTO)Currently Co-Founder and Producer at the Shorty Awards. Previously Founder and CTO of Innofinity.
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