Engineering Manager

We're quickly growing and super excited for you to join us

**Why Topsort? Why now?**:
Topsort is changing the way Retail Media works. By joining our scaling team, you'll feel your impact from day 1. The processes and messaging you build today will be a critical part of our foundation as we accelerate toward 200 Topsorters worldwide, and your innovations will leave a lasting mark on the industry, as a whole. Retail Media is on the verge of a new era, and Topsort is gathering the ecosystem together to shape a brighter future. Joining us now, you'll work directly alongside our co-founders and founding members to bring on Retail Media 3.0. If you're looking to define your career as something greater than yourself, come scale with us.

**What it's like to work at Topsort**:
Our team is all about straightforward communication, embracing feedback without taking it personally, and fostering a super collaborative environment. It's a sports team that's hyper focused on winning, collaborative internally, and competitive externally - never the other way around. We thrive on working in the open, lifting each other up, and getting things done with a sense of urgency. We're the kind of team that loves making bold choices, sharing extraordinary opinions, and maintaining a 100 mph pace. No endless meetings here - if it can be done today, we're all about getting it done today.

**What is this role like？**:
We're looking for an experienced **Engineering Manager - Platform & Infrastructure** to lead a cross-functional team responsible for the core components of our ad platform—ranging from backend auction systems and developer infrastructure to CI/CD tooling and cloud architecture. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in high-scale environments, leads with clarity and empathy, and loves working across disciplines to bring architectural vision to life.

You'll manage backend, infrastructure, data, and frontend engineers—building scalable, real-time services in Go, Python, and Rust. You'll also oversee the reliability and evolution of our core APIs, auction systems, and internal tooling that powers all Topsort engineering.

**You will**:

- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of engineers across backend, platform, and infrastructure
- Own the development of core systems like the Auction Engine, Information APIs, and developer tools
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for cloud infrastructure (GCP), CI/CD, monitoring, and platform scalability
- Guide backend architecture decisions involving distributed systems, microservices, and high-throughput environments
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and other engineering managers to ensure smooth planning and execution
- Champion engineering excellence: thoughtful system design, scalable abstractions, automation, and observability
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability planning
- Foster a strong team culture that prioritizes ownership, speed, and continuous improvement

**Requirements**:

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing or leading engineering teams
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture in cloud-native environments
- Hands-on experience with Go, Python, or Rust in production systems
- Experience building and maintaining platform components like APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and modern observability stacks
- Experience managing performance, scale, and reliability in production systems
- Excellent communication skills and experience working in fast-paced, remote-first environments

**Nice to Have**:

- Previous experience in ad tech, auction systems, or financial tech
- Exposure to real-time data pipelines, streaming frameworks (Kafka, Flink, etc.)
- Familiarity with developer platform practices (service catalogs, GitOps, IDPs)
- Passion for mentoring engineers and cultivating inclusive team environments

**About Topsort**

At Topsort, we believe in the mission of democratizing the secret technologies of the walled gardens and creating a privacy-first cookie-free world of clean advertising with modern tech, friendly products, and AI. We believe in making advertising intuitive, intelligent, and genuinely cool, without any of the creepy ads or cookie-obsession (well, maybe just the chocolate ones). In a rapidly changing industry, we're on a mission to democratize monetization access for all and ensure that advertising doesn't leave any brand or seller feeling confused or overwhelmed

Today, Topsort has 5 major hubs worldwide, and employees in 13+ countries, including Menlo Park, Boston, Santiago Chile, Sao Paulo Brazil, Barcelona Spain, and Sydney Australia. We are a truly global company that was born in the pandemic that's had rapid growth since out of a genius product, a customer-first mentality, and a hardworking team of talented individuals. Since our founding in 2021, we've gained cust