Engineering Manager I, Applications
StackAdaptStackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.
Hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our EngOps Applications team. This role is accountable for team delivery, operational health, and execution of infrastructure work supporting critical production systems.
A strong technical background is required to guide decisions and support the team, but success comes from prioritization, clarity, and people leadership, not individual contribution.
What you will do:
- Lead, coach, and support a team of engineers
- Own planning and delivery, ensuring priorities are clear and commitments are met
- Be accountable for system reliability, incident response practices, and follow-up
- Provide technical oversight by reviewing designs and guiding trade-offs
- Ensure documentation, runbooks, and operational standards are maintained
- Act as the primary point of accountability when working with partner teams
What we’re looking for:
- Experience managing engineers in a people leadership role
- Background in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Experience operating production systems in AWS
- Strong understanding of Linux, Kubernetes, and containerized systems
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform required)
- Comfortable leading teams through incidents and operational challenges
What success looks like:
- The team delivers reliably with clear ownership and priorities
- Incidents lead to measurable improvements over time
- Engineers are supported, growing, and not burning out
- Infrastructure work enables the broader organization effectively
StackAdapter's Enjoy:
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continu
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