Director, Engineering (Performance)

Overview

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At Index Exchange, we're reinventing how digital advertising works—at scale. As a global advertising supply-side platform, we empower the world’s leading media owners and marketers to thrive in a programmatic, privacy-first ecosystem. Our platform is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands and media owners and plays a crucial role in the business model of the internet. At the core of it all is our engineering-first culture. Our engineers tackle internet-scale problems across tight-knit, global teams. From moving petabytes of data and optimizing with AI to making real-time infrastructure decisions, Indexers have the agency and influence to shape the future of advertising. We move fast, build thoughtfully, and stay grounded in our core values.

About The Role

At the heart of Index is the Exchange Platform, handling more than 550 billion real-time auctions every day. The Director, Exchange Platform will be responsible for the operation, innovation and invention of the exchange platform, leading a world class team.

What We’re Looking For

A pragmatic and strategic technology leader :

• Define the roadmap for performance profiling, tooling, optimization, and latency reduction across the entire exchange platform.
• Learn and understand the business vision and market opportunity for the company
• Exceptional hands-on technology leader to ‘drive and own’ the performance optimization, vision, direction, and technology roadmap for system performance and optimization for all of Index Exchange
• Design, develop, and drive implementation of all performance- and latency-critical services and pipelines in our exchange
• Design, develop, and drive implementation of performance profiling and optimization tooling and frameworks, and integrate same into our build and validation pipelines
• Establish and advance best practices and standards for performance and latency critical pipelines, and ensure that all Index engineering teams subscribe to same
• Manage all requirements related to performance and latency metrics and observability
• Develop and champion the near-term targets against long term strategy for continuous performance and latency improvements for our exchange
• Make significant contributions while working cross functionally across engineering on the strategic technology roadmap for the company

A builder, enabler, and amplifier of world class engineering teams :

Growth Focused Architectural Leadership

Leadership Role Model And Exemplar

Here’s What You’ll Be Doing

Here’s What You Need

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Equal employment opportunity

At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunities. We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classification—diversity is the human experience. For those who show grit, passion, and humility—Index will welcome you.

Accessibility For Applicants With Disabilities

Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us. If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and any information how we can assist you with the hiring recruiter when they contact you. Index Exchange will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.

Index Everywhere, Index Anywhere

Our corporate headquarters are in Toronto, with major offices in New York, Montreal, Kitchener, London, San Francisco, and many other global cities. As a major global advertising exchange, we are committed to operating as a tightly knit global team and embracing and empowering talent wherever our colleagues may be.

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