Lead Compute / Storage Infrastructure Engineer

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce, unlocking real-time relevance in the moment that matters most. Rokt’s AI Brain and ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions connecting hundreds of millions of customers, and is trusted to do this by the world’s leading companies.

We are a team of builders helping smart businesses find innovative ways to meet customer needs and generate incremental revenue. Leading companies drive 10-50% of additional revenue—and often all their profits—from the extra products or services they sell. This economic edge unleashes a world of possibilities for growth and innovation.

The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to understand consumers better. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day. It considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology.

Target total compensation ranges from $385,000 - $520,000, including a fixed annual salary of $260,000 - $320,000, an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits.

Equity grants are issued in good faith and are subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility.

As our Lead Compute / Storage Engineer, you’ll be a player-coach: contributing directly as a hands-on engineer while guiding others through technical leadership. You’ll own the design, deployment, and evolution of the core compute, networking, and storage platforms that power our business—spanning container orchestration, streaming data pipelines, and scalable storage systems. Depending on background and interest, you will take on either a Lead Compute Engineer role (focusing on Kubernetes, networking, and workload orchestration) or a Lead Storage Engineer role (focusing on Kafka, Cassandra, data lakes, and OLAP engines).

About the role:

• Provide technical leadership across either compute or storage, while remaining hands-on in design, coding, and operations
• Drive the evolution of Kubernetes platforms and core addons (EKS, ECR, Helm, Argo, observability tooling) and/or storage platforms (Kafka, Cassandra, Trino, DeltaStreamer, OLAP engines)
• Own key platform foundations: networking (VPCs, peering, Istio), data streaming (multi-region Kafka clusters, schema registries), and scalable storage (Cassandra operators, datalake ingestion, Trino analytics)
• Build automation and developer-facing tooling that improves reliability, accelerates delivery, and simplifies complex workflows
• Operate mission-critical services in production—ensuring high availability, performance, and security for both real-time and batch systems
• Act as a player-coach: mentor teammates, lead technical initiatives, and foster best practices across platform engineering
• Depending on scope, take on dotted-line leadership of projects or direct management of engineers

Requirements

About You:

• 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering roles with deep expertise in either compute/orchestration or storage/data platforms
• Strong background in one or more of the following domains:
• Kubernetes and container orchestration (EKS, ECR, Helm, Argo Rollouts, Spark on Kubernetes, workflow schedulers)
• Distributed storage and data platforms (Kafka, Cassandra, Trino, DeltaStreamer, OLAP engines, schema management)
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Terraform) and hands-on Linux administration
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects, mentor engineers, and influence platform direction
• Clear communicator who thrives in fast-paced environments and builds strong cross-functional relationships
• Passion for reliability, scalability, and enabling other teams to move faster with confidence

Benefits

About Rokt’stars:

As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock real-time relevancy in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks, or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better. 

About the Benefits:

We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:

• Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
• Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office.
• Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents.
• Dog-friendly office
• Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.) 
• Work with the greatest talent in town
• See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London

We believe we’re better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week).

We at Rokt choose to create a company that is as diverse and inclusive as the world we live in by attracting, growing & keeping the best talent. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.