Engineering Manager

Advertising

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to drive Advertising engineering leadership and practices. In this role, you will be instrumental in growing the team and guiding development to successfully scale. You will help us to create a user-first ad experience that's personalized and relevant so we can grow to billions of fans, increasing engagement with our listeners and providing better value to our advertisers. Above all, your work will impact the way the world experiences music. This squad is responsible for the foundational data, services, and tooling that power the ad-serving ecosystem, with a focus on three core areas: Data Architecture and Integrity, Targeting Data Propagation, and Observability and Debugging. They design and own the data architecture to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of core ad-serving datasets for pacing, billing, and business analysis. They also manage the services and pipelines that reliably deliver critical user-targeting information—such as privacy preferences, ad history, and audience segment data—to the ad-serving path. Furthermore, the team develops tools and mechanisms to enhance telemetry within the ad-serving stack, enabling more effective debugging and easier evaluation of system changes, while also providing necessary support for new feature development by handling their specific data and event functionality requirements.

What You'll Do

• Build and lead a robust team of data and backend engineers by attracting top talent, mentoring individuals and managing conflict.
• Work with product managers and lead the team to design and implement product features, while improving the quality of the current big-data intensive tools that exist for audiences and targeting.
• Lead the team to utilize, homogenize and make available for peer teams to use, diverse large-volume datasets built around user preferences, behavior, identity and location - gathered from a user's mobile as well as other connected platforms.
• Strong understanding of how data-intensive systems are expressed in the UX shown to customers.
• Grow the technical expertise of the team around system design, quality and testing, scalability, performance and fault tolerance.
• Manage OKRs, roadmaps, career conversations, performance and accountability,...