Senior Engineering Manager, Partnerize

• Proven Management Scale: Experience leading multiple engineering teams (including managing other managers) in a fast-paced, product-led environment
• Deep Technical Roots: A strong background in backend or platform engineering, with the demonstrable ability to design and critique distributed systems at scale
• Architectural Mastery: Experience with event-driven architecture, real-time data processing, and making clear technical decisions under ambiguity
• Strategic Partnership: A track record of working effectively with Product and stakeholders at all levels to balance performance, reliability, and cost
• Pragmatic Problem Solving: The ability to move comfortably between high-level organizational strategy and low-level technical detail
• Clear Communication: Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to explain complex trade-offs clearly without relying on others to define the direction

Desirable

• The Senior Engineering Manager is a key leadership role at the intersection of technical depth, people management, and product partnership
• At Partnerize, we operate a high-scale platform processing over a billion daily events
• You will be responsible for overseeing multiple cross-functional engineering teams through Engineering Managers, driving the development and execution of strategies that ensure high throughput, resilience, and observability
• This is not a purely strategic role; you are a technical authority who leads through judgment, guiding architectural decisions and working closely with engineers on complex distributed systems
• The Things You Care About?
• At the heart of our platform, we track performance marketing data and build a number of solutions to turn this data into useful information for our customers
• We work with a lot of data, generating over a billion events across our infrastructure daily
• We aim to make as much of this data available in real-time as possible, which is no mean feat at this scale
• Our platform is powered by our REST APIs and everything is developed with an API-first approach
• The primary technologies we use are PHP, Python, JavaScript (React), and Kafka
• Data is stored in MySQL, PostgreSQL, Druid, and Redis
• We are constantly evolving our platform and tools to take advantage of the ever-changing tech landscape
• We deploy to production several times a day
• As a Senior Engineering Manager at Partnerize, you will:
• Lead through Managers: Manage Engineering Managers and Agile Delivery Leads of cross-functional teams, owning delivery, quality, and system reliability
• Act as Technical Authority: Guide architecture across backend and platform systems—not just reviewing it, but actively shaping the design of high-concurrency, event-driven systems
• Partner with Product: Collaborate closely with Product leaders to shape roadmaps, challenge assumptions, and balance speed against scalability and technical debt
• Drive Engineering Standards: Develop and maintain processes and best practices for distributed systems and APIs to enable high-quality software delivery at scale
• Manage Outcomes: Take ownership of technical outcomes and system health, ensuring infrastructure is designed for resilience and observability
• Nurture Talent: Act as a mentor and role model for Engineering Managers and senior engineers, strengthening both technical and leadership capability across the tribe
• Foster Culture: Drive a culture of high ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring engineering efforts align with organizational goals