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Vantage · 2 weeks ago

Engineering Manager

Canada

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Vantage is a unified platform purpose-built for retail media orchestration. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a high-impact engineering team, improve system reliability, and manage cloud operations while coaching engineers and collaborating with Site Reliability Engineering.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Digital MarketingMachine LearningMarketingMarketing AutomationPredictive AnalyticsRetailRetail TechnologySoftware

Responsibilities

People leadership: Hire, mentor, and grow a mixed-level team with clear goals and regular feedback

Software Delivery: Ensure predictable delivery with clear scope, milestones, and acceptance criteria; enforce quality gates and rollback plans; coordinate cross-team dependencies and cutovers

Reliability: Define SLOs and error budgets; govern resilience practices. Be hands-on during high-severity incidents when needed

Developer velocity: Own SDLC and CI/CD governance, shorten feedback loops, streamline releases, and reduce engineering toil

Data platform: Own ETL orchestration, data quality controls, and recovery playbooks

Cloud cost: Own budgets and cost governance. Drive cost-aware design and capacity reviews without performance regressions

Platform architecture: Set service and API standards, manage technical debt, lead design reviews, and direct performance tuning and scalability efforts

Observability: Set standards for SLIs, tracing with OpenTelemetry, logging, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks. Ensure adoption across teams

Incident response: Lead on-call practices and incident command. Run post-incident reviews that produce preventive improvements

SRE partnership: Collaborate daily on reliability practices and tooling. Help define future reporting lines with leadership

Qualification

Cloud fundamentalsBackend systems experienceData pipeline managementTeam leadershipPythonDjangoSecurity practicesObservability practicesMentoring engineersClear communicationCollaboration

Required

3 to 5+ years managing software engineering teams

7 to 10+ years total engineering experience shipping and operating backend systems

Proven success in leading platform and data pipeline work that serves multiple teams

Strong cloud fundamentals with Azure or AWS

Solid backend experience, including B2B API design and integration

Experience leading observability and on-call initiatives, including establishing and meeting SLOs and SLIs, distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, logging, alerting and post-incident reviews

Experience working in a security-minded environment, having worked with concepts such as Least privilege, key rotation, vulnerability management, and data protection

Track record of hiring, mentoring, and performance-managing engineers across levels

Clear written and verbal communication. Comfortable collaborating with Product, Data, and Security