Director of Engineering, Platform

Menlo Park, CA, United States

About Cardlytics

Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About The Team

Cardlytics is growing its Platform Engineering team and we’re looking for an experienced leader who is eager to bring their knowledge, experience, and skills to our organization as we evolve our technology infrastructure and operations! We work with new and innovative technologies and our work impacts the entire organization.

About The Position

You will oversee and direct the Developer Experience and Infrastructure Team to ensure that our CI/CD pipeline, developer tools, platform services and infrastructure work securely, reliably and efficiently operating the platform as a service and product.

To support our business growth, our technology platform must be:

global – supports publishers, merchants and advertisers around the world, and local – has rich features and capabilities to support local requirements for international expansion.

agile - enabling fast product innovation velocity for multiple product lines.

intelligent - delivers transaction intelligence from a variety of data sources to drive consumer engagement.

Responsibilities:

Oversee and direct the Developer Experience and Infrastructure Team to ensure that our CI/CD pipeline, developer tools, platform services and infrastructure work securely, reliably and efficiently operating the platform as a service and product

Help define our standard technology stack and processes that ensure we maximize the impact of our developer productivity investments, our security investments, facilitate easy cross-team transfers, and critically eases maintaining our compliance controls.

Understand next-generation platforms and technologies, and how to integrate them into the Cardlytics ecosystem to drive innovation.

Provide guidance and education to teammates and the larger organization, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and org-wide adoption of best practices.

Design and implement platform as a service solutions to drive adoption and acceleration of new technologies and design patterns across the organization.

Collaborate with external teams in cross-functional efforts to implement and improve robust systems.

Ensure the high security, availability, performance and SLAs of our platform services and infrastructure.

Identify and manage platform as a service implementation projects.

Assist to devise, track and control the annual operating and capital budgets for the platform infrastructure department.

You have:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science or a directly related field preferred

10+ years of management/leadership experience.

5+ years’ experience architecting, implementing, and maintaining AWS environments utilizing components such as:

Compute – EC2, EKS, Lambda

Data Streaming - MSK

Security, Identity, and Compliance – Control Tower, Security Hub, IAM

Extensive knowledge of best practice design patterns and processes based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Proven leadership capabilities in platform engineering and platform as a service.

Strong familiarity with information security, risk management and compliance requirements.

Deep understanding and hands-on experience in project management, budget management and Business Continuity Plans

You are:

Experienced and comfortable with providing thought leadership in the areas of cloud infrastructure, architecture, and automation.

A leader of cross-functional, collaborative teams and projects within a complex engineering ecosystem.

Effective at communicating with peers and leaders across disciplines in a constructive, solution-oriented way.

Capable of utilizing data and observability tools to solve challenging problems and coordinate effective resolutions.

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

Customer and Partner-first

Act with Urgency and Focus

Integrity with our partners and data

Accountability even when challenged

Empowerment over hierarchy

Growth over comfort

Benefits And Perks

Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Educational assistance for continuing education

Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email [email protected] or inform your recruiter.

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