Engineering Team Leader - Platform Engineering

RTB House
Warsaw, Krakow
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Data-driven decision making","Cross-team communication","Self-direction"]

Lead and mentor a team of 8–10 systems and backend engineers owning the platform layer of the Bidding Platform. Drive the platform roadmap focused on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security, and deliver self-service platform capabilities with clear usage contracts. Base decisions on data through experiments, support IT-wide capacity planning, and oversee on-call alarm routing to reduce noise while keeping duty rotation distributed.

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RTB House
RTB House
1 month ago

Engineering Team Leader - Platform Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead and mentor a team of 8–10 systems and backend engineers owning the platform layer of the Bidding Platform. Drive the platform roadmap focused on efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security, and deliver self-service platform capabilities with clear usage contracts. Base decisions on data through experiments, support IT-wide capacity planning, and oversee on-call alarm routing to reduce noise while keeping duty rotation distributed.
Location: Warsaw, Krakow
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead, mentor, and grow a team of ~8–10 systems and backend engineers.
  • •Own the vision and roadmap for the platform layer, guiding its evolution for efficiency, reliability, scalability, and security.
  • •Delegate ownership of platform areas (e.g., monitoring, deployment, security) to senior engineers and support them as needed.
  • •Deliver self-service platform capabilities with clear usage contracts for other engineering teams.
  • •Base decisions on data, participate in IT-wide capacity planning, and own the framework for dispatching on-call alarms to the right teams.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote Work

Key Requirements

  • •2+ years in a technical leadership role (Team Lead / Engineering Manager), including leading project teams.
  • •Hands-on background in distributed systems and systems engineering (deployment, monitoring, databases, load balancing) in large-scale infrastructure.
  • •Knowledge of concurrent programming and distributed systems.
  • •Strong performance analysis skills from estimation to production optimization.
  • •Strong programming background with the ability to dive deep into code reviews when needed.
Experience:Distributed systemsSystems engineeringPlatform engineering
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipData-driven decision makingCross-team communicationSelf-direction
Languages:EnglishPolish
Tech Stack:JavaPythonKubernetesPrometheusAerospikeMemcachedGoogle Cloud PlatformBigQueryMinIOKafkaClickHousePostgreSQLElasticsearchJenkinsGraphite

Company Brief

RTB House
Provides programmatic advertising and ad tech solutions using deep learning for personalized ad delivery, real-time bidding, and performance optimization across display, video, and mobile channels globally.
Industry: Advertising Media Groups
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Warsaw, Poland
Founded: 2012
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