engineering manager for infrastructure

Samba TV is a media intelligence company that provides real-time insights into what people watch, read, and think about across screens. Its data, collected with the consent of over a billion people, helps major brands make smarter decisions.

• Own the department’s roadmap and decide where to invest
• Run technology face-offs and make the case for technical decisions
• Manage the day-to-day work of a small team
• Handle help-desk-level tickets when needed
• Persuade teams across the company to adopt the infrastructure being built
• Turn feedback about infrastructure into roadmap decisions

• Be technically credible and able to pass the architecture challenge
• Have experience with AWS, GCP, the company’s own data center, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Python
• Be comfortable owning a roadmap and making technical decisions
• Communicate effectively and persuade cross-functional teams
• Be willing to grow into management; startup, small-team, or adjacent-industry experience is preferred over experience in big tech with an established roadmap
• Not suitable for candidates seeking a handed-down roadmap, avoiding hands-on work, or becoming defensive in response to infrastructure feedback
• Candidates with 3–6 years of solely people-management experience are not sought
• Будет плюсом: startup or small, fast-moving team experience, comfort being the most senior technical voice without being the most senior architect, experience turning infrastructure complaints into roadmap decisions

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