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Engineering manager in LATAM

What This Role Fills
1. Integration Layer (Structural Gap)
Both teams have zero integration nodes. This manager operates as the connective tissue between gateway engineers and end-node engineers — reviewing architecture, unblocking handoffs, and ensuring work doesn't fall into the gap.
2. Gateway Risk Mitigation
Alexander Trishin (programmatic) and Jeffrey Whitehead (drive) are single-point-of-failure gateways on declining trajectories. This manager reduces gateway concentration by distributing architectural decisions and unblocking downstream engineers directly.
3. Reliability Chain Repair
With O-Ring scores near zero, the reliability chain is broken. The manager must identify whether chronic underdeliverers (Marija Gajin, Nikola Todorovic, Jeffrey Whitehead, Andrew Hayton) face capacity issues, skill gaps, or external blockers — and fix the root causes.
4. DSP Domain Authority
The team is building real-time bidding infrastructure. Without someone who has done this before, the team will rediscover every pitfall: latency budgets, auction mechanics, pacing algorithms, budget management, traffic shaping. This hire skips the expensive learning curve.
5. LATAM Foundation
This person sets the engineering culture, hiring bar, and operating rhythm for our LATAM presence. They need to be someone others want to work for.



Candidate Skills Profile
Must-Have (Non-Negotiable)

• Built and shipped a DSP or real-time bidding platform — not adjacent adtech, the actual auction path
• Real-time systems engineering at massive volume — comfortable with sub-100ms latency budgets at 1M+ QPS; understands traffic shaping, pacing, and graceful degradation
• Hands-on engineering manager — writes code, reviews PRs, debugs production; not a pure people-manager
• Team building in LATAM — has hired and retained engineering talent in the region; understands the market
• Change driver — demonstrable history of transforming team practices, not maintaining status quo; challenges comfortable patterns and pushes toward cutting-edge approaches

Strong Signals

• Experience managing 5-10 engineers across related product areas (not just one team)
• Has dealt with fragmented or underperforming teams and turned them around — reliability improvements, delivery cadence fixes
• Deep understanding of programmatic advertising ecosystem: OpenRTB, bid enrichment, audience targeting, supply-path optimization
• Experience with pipeline topology thinking — knows how to structure gateway/integration/end roles for resilience
• Low-latency systems: Rust, Go, C++, or high-performance JVM; comfortable with performance profiling and optimization
• Infrastructure-as-code mentality; has operated systems in AWS/GCP at scale
• Event streaming experience (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink) for real-time data pipelines

Cultural Fit / Working Style

• Not afraid of change — drives it. Proactively identifies when the team is falling into comfortable patterns and pushes for better approaches. The teams need someone who says "why are we still doing it this way?" not "let's keep things stable"
• High agency. Doesn't wait for permission. Sees a problem in the pipeline topology and starts fixing it immediately
• Transparent communicator. Both teams have low delivery probability — this person needs to surface hard truths about capacity, skill gaps, and blockers without sugarcoating
• Builder mindset. Understands they're founding the LATAM engineering presence. Takes that responsibility seriously — every decision is a precedent
• Technically credible. Can earn the respect of experienced ICs (some of whom have been in their roles for years) by demonstrating real depth, not just management credentials