Engineering Manager

About the Role

Come lead a high-impact engineering team at Vantage, and own the backbone that powers our platform.

In your role as Engineering Manager, you’ll helm the vision of our backend platform and data pipelines, improve the reliability of our systems with clear SLO’s, accelerate development, and scale our cloud operations.

You’ll also be there to coach engineers of all levels, manage sprints, and oversee a close partnership with our Site Reliability Engineering team.

Our core platform runs in Azure with footprints in AWS and GCP, and a stack that includes Python, Django, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, Snowflake, and React TypeScript.

This posting is for an existing vacancy (backfill).

Minimum Requirements

• 3 to 5+ years managing software engineering teams.

• 7 to 10+ years total engineering experience shipping and operating backend systems.

• Proven success in leading platform and data pipeline work that serves multiple teams.

• Strong cloud fundamentals with Azure or AWS.

• Solid backend experience, including B2B API design and integration.

• Experience leading observability and on-call initiatives, including establishing and meeting SLOs and SLIs, distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, logging, alerting and post-incident reviews .

• Experience working in a security-minded environment, having worked with concepts such as Least privilege, key rotation, vulnerability management, and data protection.

• Track record of hiring, mentoring, and performance-managing engineers across levels.

• Clear written and verbal communication. Comfortable collaborating with Product, Data, and Security.

Preferred Experience Also Includes

• Experience with Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL, Postgres, and Django.

• Experience with AWS EMR and S3.

• Experience with data pipelines: design, scheduling, and operation of ETL or ELT with Snowflake and object storage.

• Experience with Snowflake performance tuning, warehouse sizing, and cost governance.

• Experience managing SREs.

• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps.

Role Responsibilities

• People leadership: Hire, mentor, and grow a mixed-level team with clear goals and regular feedback

• Software Delivery: Ensure predictable delivery with clear scope, milestones, and acceptance criteria; enforce quality gates and rollback plans; coordinate cross-team dependencies and cutovers

• Reliability: Define SLOs and error budgets; govern resilience practices. Be hands-on during high-severity incidents when needed

• Developer velocity: Own SDLC and CI/CD governance, shorten feedback loops, streamline releases, and reduce engineering toil.

• Data platform: Own ETL orchestration, data quality controls, and recovery playbooks

• Cloud cost: Own budgets and cost governance. Drive cost-aware design and capacity reviews without performance regressions

• Platform architecture: Set service and API standards, manage technical debt, lead design reviews, and direct performance tuning and scalability efforts.

• Observability: Set standards for SLIs, tracing with OpenTelemetry, logging, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks. Ensure adoption across teams

• Incident response: Lead on-call practices and incident command. Run post-incident reviews that produce preventive improvements

• SRE partnership: Collaborate daily on reliability practices and tooling. Help define future reporting lines with leadership

About Vantage
Vantage is the first unified platform purpose-built for retail media orchestration, empowering enterprise retailers to seamlessly activate onsite, offsite, and in-store advertising. With a global presence in North America and Asia-Pacific, Vantage enables retailers to launch and grow their media networks through scalable technology and automated workflows, and is trusted by leading retailers like The Home Depot to power their retail media programs.

For a closer look at what we do, our culture, and our benefits, check out our about us and careers pages.

Remote-First, Based in Toronto
Vantage is proudly headquartered in Toronto, but we’re a remote-first team spread across North America (and beyond). Our flexible work philosophy means team members can thrive from wherever they do their best work—whether that’s from a home office, a local café, or while adding stamps to their passport. With a remote-friendly setup, home office support, and annual company retreats, we stay connected, collaborative, and energized—no matter the time zone.

Vantage’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Vantage Analytics is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and embrace ALL individuals and what makes them unique. We believe our employees should be happy and healthy, with peace of mind and a sense of fulfillment. We encourage all individuals to apply for positions that fit their passions.

We promote equality and strive to provide all current and prospective employees with support and opportunities. Reasonable accommodations are available to job applicants on request and throughout the application process.

How Vantage Uses AI in the Recruitment Process

Vantage makes use of several AI-enabled tools that aid us in the hiring process. These tools exclusively take the form of AI meeting notetakers, and the AI assistant in our Applicant Tracking System, Ashby. They allow us to record, organize and summarize the various details and data points we collect during the hiring process, without losing the context in which they were originally provided. Neither the AI meeting notetakers nor Ashby's AI assistant make decisions about your candidate status.

All hiring decisions at Vantage are made by a team of collaborative, hard-working, human beings. We might use AI to speed up your process and to help keep it organized, but ultimately who we invite to work at Vantage is a decision we only trust ourselves to make.

What's Next?
We thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

As part of the final stages of our hiring process, all candidates will be required to successfully complete a criminal background check.