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About the Role
AdRise is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the Rainmaker Ad Server engineering domain, which is responsible for the core systems that manage advertising across their streaming ecosystem. This role involves owning a major engineering domain, driving strategy, and ensuring the speed, reliability, and scalability of business-critical systems. You will collaborate with Product, Data Science, ML, and Ads Operations to evolve ad serving capabilities and foster a high-performing engineering organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Rainmaker Ad Server engineering team, setting technical direction, priorities, and execution standards.
- Own the engineering strategy and roadmap for ad serving capabilities, balancing business needs with long-term platform health.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, ML, and adjacent engineering teams to translate business goals into technical investments.
- Drive the architecture and evolution of distributed systems for ad decisioning, auction logic, targeting, eligibility, pacing, and serving reliability.
- Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization by coaching managers and senior engineers.
- Establish high standards for engineering excellence through design reviews, operational rigor, and a culture of accountability.
- Improve team execution by strengthening planning, prioritization, delivery predictability, and cross-functional alignment.
- Identify and lead pragmatic changes to increase velocity without compromising system correctness or reliability.
- Champion modernization through platform simplification, performance optimization, infrastructure improvements, or better developer workflows.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with substantial experience in backend infrastructure and real-time services.
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing senior engineers and engineering managers.
- Strong technical depth in low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
- Experience leading teams responsible for business-critical production systems with demanding uptime and performance requirements.
- Strong background with JVM-based backend systems, ideally Scala.
- Experience with core backend infrastructure such as Postgres, Redis, Kafka and/or Kinesis, and cloud-native operational environments.
- Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, ML, and other engineering teams.
- Track record of building strong teams, mentoring senior engineers, and creating environments where technical leaders can thrive.
- Strong operational instincts, including experience driving incident response, service reliability improvements, and engineering process maturity.
- High ownership, sound judgment, and a pragmatic approach to balancing technical quality with business impact.
Skills
- AdTech
- Ad serving
- Targeting
- Auction systems
- Campaign delivery
- Forecasting
- Measurement
- Core ad decisioning
- Monetization infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Experimentation frameworks
- Real-time optimization systems
- Data-intensive platforms
- Streaming media
- CTV
- Video advertising
- Scala
- Service-oriented architecture
- Distributed systems design
- Postgres
- Redis
- Kafka
- Kinesis
- Cloud-native operational environments
Location
- Toronto
- New York
- Los Angeles
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Director
About the Company
- Fox Corporation produces and distributes content through leading brands like FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations, and Tubi Media Group.
- AdRise builds cutting-edge advertising capabilities for Tubi and across the Fox portfolio of brands.
- AdRise powered Tubi's growth by developing real-time ad delivery and dynamic targeting infrastructure.
- AdRise is creating an efficient, intelligent, and transparent advertising ecosystem, starting with streaming.
- The company is enhancing its in-house ad tech stack by optimizing server-side delivery, building ML-driven targeting systems, and enabling content-personalized ad experiences.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.