Head of Platform Infrastructure, Rokt

• Minimum of 5 years' senior leadership experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud services
• Minimum of 8 years' experience leading software engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in the development of high-volume transaction processing solutions within distributed systems
• Experience developing in a modern programming language. (C#, Java, Python, Golang)
• Experience in leading incident management and building infrastructure on public cloud technologies at scale

Desirable

• Rokt is hiring a Head of Platform Infrastructure to define and lead the vision, strategy, development, and scaling of our technology platforms
• Reporting to the CTO, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the robustness, scalability, and security of our infrastructure, enabling innovation across all product lines and ensuring exceptional user experiences
• This is a senior leadership position that requires a deep technical background, exceptional leadership skills, and a strategic mindset
• As Rokt continues to expand globally, processing billions of real-time events across mission-critical customer experiences, we need a leader to scale the platform that powers it all
• You'll be responsible for building the infrastructure that enables rapid iteration, global reliability, and developer happiness
• This role requires substantial operational experience in a large-scale, cloud-based, high-reliability, always-on environment
• The team will manage all infrastructure at Rokt
• Build, lead and scale a high performing 20+ person team in a fast growth environment
• Lead from the front. You’ll be expected to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty for a while
• Own Rokt’s core platform infrastructure capabilities: compute, networking, CI/CD, observability, messaging, and service mesh
• Design and evolve our fault-tolerant infrastructure spanning AWS and GCP, optimizing for compliance, resilience, and developer agility
• Own cloud efficiency and cost optimization strategies across environments
• Lead the strategy and operations of our Kafka-based event-driven platform, handling 20B+ messages daily
• Monitor, assess, and report on the platform's health, including its performance, reliability, and security, using relevant key performance indicators (KPIs). Provide regular platform health and progress updates to senior leadership
• Drive strategic platform initiatives in collaboration with engineering leadership to achieve their team’s goals
• Introduce AI/ML-powered infrastructure automation for predictive scaling, alerting, and anomaly detection
• Recruit top talent to expand and develop Rokt’s infrastructure