Lead Compute / Storage Infrastructure Engineer, Rokt
$385-520k
OTE
$260-320k
BASE
+ Equity
4 days a week in office
eCommerce technology & software solutions
Open for applications
eCommerce technology & software solutions
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$385-520k
OTE
$260-320k
BASE
+ Equity
4 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make eCommerce smarter, faster, and better.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering roles with deep expertise in either compute/orchestration or storage/data platforms
- Strong background in one or more of the following domains:
- Kubernetes and container orchestration (EKS, ECR, Helm, Argo Rollouts, Spark on Kubernetes, workflow schedulers)
- Distributed storage and data platforms (Kafka, Cassandra, Trino, DeltaStreamer, OLAP engines, schema management)
- Proficiency with scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Terraform) and hands-on Linux administration
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects, mentor engineers, and influence platform direction
- Clear communicator who thrives in fast-paced environments and builds strong cross-functional relationships
- Passion for reliability, scalability, and enabling other teams to move faster with confidence
What the job involves
- 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
- As our Lead Compute / Storage Engineer, you’ll be a player-coach: contributing directly as a hands-on engineer while guiding others through technical leadership
- You’ll own the design, deployment, and evolution of the core compute, networking, and storage platforms that power our business—spanning container orchestration, streaming data pipelines, and scalable storage systems
- Depending on background and interest, you will take on either a Lead Compute Engineer role (focusing on Kubernetes, networking, and workload orchestration) or a Lead Storage Engineer role (focusing on Kafka, Cassandra, data lakes, and OLAP engines)
- Provide technical leadership across either compute or storage, while remaining hands-on in design, coding, and operations
- Drive the evolution of Kubernetes platforms and core addons (EKS, ECR, Helm, Argo, observability tooling) and/or storage platforms (Kafka, Cassandra, Trino, DeltaStreamer, OLAP engines)
- Own key platform foundations: networking (VPCs, peering, Istio), data streaming (multi-region Kafka clusters, schema registries), and scalable storage (Cassandra operators, datalake ingestion, Trino analytics)
- Build automation and developer-facing tooling that improves reliability, accelerates delivery, and simplifies complex workflows
- Operate mission-critical services in production—ensuring high availability, performance, and security for both real-time and batch systems
- Act as a player-coach: mentor teammates, lead technical initiatives, and foster best practices across platform engineering
- Depending on scope, take on dotted-line leadership of projects or direct management of engineers
Our take
eCommerce marketing company Rokt is helping brands leverage the power of good timing. With Rokt, brands can present their customers with AI-curated offers and messages at every stage in their transaction, at tailored times of the day, or to market themselves at the point of transaction on other major eCommerce sites.
The idea is that “transaction moments” are when shoppers are most inclined to engage further with the brand or its products - the success of Rokt’s clients, and the runaway success of Rokt itself, show that it's successfully cracked it.
Rokt has a strong client base that includes giants like Groupon, GoDaddy, and Disney, and after hitting Unicorn status, it is eyeing up a US IPO. This should come as no surprise - the surge in eCommerce trade over recent years has led to most companies investing in tools to stay competitive.
Rokt has expanded its tool suite since it first started up, and will be focused on continuing to innovate to keep ahead of the MarTech pack, and abreast of changing demand in the rapidly shifting market. The eCommerce marketing tech sector has ballooned to a $120B global operation - Rokt is positioned comfortably to keep ahead.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2021
$325m
SERIES E
Oct 2020
$80m
SERIES D
Total funding: $488.7m
Company benefits
- Interest groups, sports clubs, and social events
- Global training events & online training courses
- Stock options
- Global all-staff events in amazing locations (Phuket, Thailand in January 2020)
- Generous relocation packages
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Mental health and wellness days
- Paid Sabbatical for employees who have been with us 3 years or more
- £55 per month social/wellness allowance, 6 sessions with a licensed therapist, 6 coaching sessions and other mental health perks
- Gym membership
- Premium health insurance
- £25 per month telephone allowance
Company HQ
Hudson Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Bruce Buchanan
(CEO)Previously a Principal at Boston Consulting Group, before serving as Chief Commercial Officer, then Group Chief Executive Officer at Jetstar Airways.
Justin Viles
(Advisor)Previously worked on strategic partnerships in the APAC region for Google, before moving on to co-found and serve as CEO at Rocklive.
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