Manager, Infrastructure Engineering

Manager, Infrastructure Engineering

New York, NY

Hybrid Schedule (M/F remote, T/W/TH in-office)

At Magnite, we cultivate an environment of continuous growth and collaboration. Our work impacts what millions of people read, watch, and buy, and we’re looking for people to help us tackle that responsibility with creativity and focus.  Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI) is the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV / streaming, online video, display, and audio. Our tech fuels billions of transactions per day!

About this team:

Manager, Infrastructure Engineering provides technical leadership for the Infrastructure Engineering team, shaping direction while ensuring adoption of established best practices. This role requires broad expertise across the infrastructure stack, with the ability to evaluate and propose impactful technology changes, collaborate with Production Engineering stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers.

The team is a core part of Production Engineering, responsible for building and operating global data center and cloud platforms at scale. Key areas include inventory and configuration management, monitoring and metrics infrastructure, platform integrations, capacity planning, automation, networking, and system and application troubleshooting.

This group also supports high-volume advertising auction systems, managing Hadoop-based environments, key-value stores, Kubernetes clusters, and other modern technologies.

In this role you will:  

Leadership

• Alignment of department to business and strategic goals

• Continuing to build and develop your department to meet the future needs of the organization.

• Resource forecasting and planning to meet product release plans

• Management and governance of incidents, problems, and changes including escalations, meeting SLAs, and driving best practice across teams

• Conduct performance reviews & appraisals

• Mentoring engineering leaders within your department

Teams & People

• Ability to inspire a team and motivate people around a shared vision

• Excellent communication, planning, and organizational skills

• Work closely with Tech Lead(s) to develop and grow team members

• Manages, focuses, and ensures team execution and delivery

• Manages team execution, milestones, and timelines

• Provides team/project status and metrics

Communication & Collaboration

• Central point of contact for key stakeholders across the business, including planning, prioritization, and estimation to ensure business needs are met

• Cascading communication - foster and ensure relevant communication of information necessary to teams

• External communication about team execution and delivery status and metrics

• Primary liaison with Product / Product Owners and other stakeholders

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Provide technical leadership to the Technical Operations organization.

• Provide technical guidance and advice to the larger Engineering organization

• Drive automation and standardization to enable the rapid deployment of systems

• Perform architectural review of business systems

• Ensure the operational integrity of the global infrastructure

• Build scalable systems to enable the management of thousands of hosts and services

• Build and operate multi-tenant data systems such as Hadoop , Kafka, Kubernetes

• Participate in the on-call rotation

We’re looking for someone with 

• BA/BS degree preferred, or equivalent work experience in relevant discipline 

• 10+ year’s experience working in Systems Engineering, SRE, or similar function

• Strong understanding of continuous integration and continuous deployment concepts

• Passion for automation

• Motivated, self-starting individual

• Strong desire and ability to educate others on building quality systems

• Ability to use data to justify decisions

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment

• Comfortable collaborating and supporting a diverse team of engineers

• Ability to troubleshoot problems in complex systems

• Experience in ad tech industry preferred

• Experience with a global  business preferred 

• Understanding of digital advertising industry, and programmatic market a plus

Technical Skills: 

• Strong Linux background, deep familiarity with related concepts 

• 10+ years of experience in a high volume 24x7 environment with 500+ servers

• 10+ years of experience scripting or coding in common languages like Bash, Python, Go

• System installs with PXE, kickstart, and Cobbler

• Experience deploying and managing configuration management tools like Puppet or Chef

• Detailed experience with revision control concepts, particularly as they relate to continuous integration. (GIT preferred) 

• Strong knowledge of common Internet protocols (TCP, DNS, HTTP)

• Experience with Kubernetes or other Container Orchestration systems

• Experience with virtualization

• Experience with  cloud based infrastructures

• Experience with deploying and managing CI tools like Jenkins

• Experience with artifact repositories like Nexus, Yum, etc.

In the US, the base salary range for this role is $160,000 – $180,000.
Actual compensation will be determined based on location, experience, skills, and internal equity.

This role is also eligible for:

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Equity (NASDAQ: MGNI)

• Comprehensive benefits package

During the interview process, candidates will receive more specific information about the salary range applicable to their experience and location.

Perks and Benefits: 

• Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage from Day One

• Generous Time Off  

• Holiday Breaks and Quarterly Wellness Days

• Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Family-Focused Benefits and Parental Leave 

• 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match

• Disability and Life Insurance

• Cell Phone Subsidy

• Monthly Fitness and Reimbursement

Career Growth:

We support internal mobility, skill development, and leadership pathways through structured career frameworks and learning programs.

Company Culture: 

Magnite’s culture is rooted in collaboration and connection, recognizing that both are essential to success. Our hybrid schedule includes two remote workdays (Monday and Friday) and three in-office days (Tuesday through Thursday), where employees can take advantage of catered lunches, beverages, snacks, training opportunities, and engaging office events that enhance the work experience. In addition, we support our team through meaningful benefits and programs, including community service and volunteer opportunities, company-matched charitable contributions, access to mental health resources, structured career development initiatives and growth frameworks, culture and inclusion programs, and our Bonusly peer-to-peer recognition platform.

About Us

The world's leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. Anchored in bustling New York City, sunny Los Angeles, mile-high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.

Magnite is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Our Commitment: We aim to incorporate a wide range of voices into our Magnite culture, cultivating an environment where employees feel welcomed, cared for, and encouraged to freely share ideas. We are committed to employee growth, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation.  We invest in Magnite’s local communities. We seek talent from all backgrounds to champion corporate values of seeing the big picture and being catalysts of change.

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