Engineering Manager - RMN

Engineering Manager - RMN

Overview:

As an Engineering Manager at Costco, you will be a pivotal technical leader responsible for the development and launch of core product features that power our Retail Media Network (RMN). You will lead a high-performing team of Software and Data Engineers to build large-scale, high-performance advertising solutions. Your mission is to develop and manage large-scale real-time advertising systems as well transform massive, disparate datasets into actionable, insight-driven products that empower our Sales teams to serve both global brands and small businesses.

You will directly influence our overall strategy by defining product features, driving system architecture, and spearheading world-class development practices.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the recruitment, mentoring, and motivation of a high-performing engineering team.
• Manage performance, promote professional growth, and foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Prioritize goals, manage timelines, and effectively mitigate risks to ensure timely delivery of team objectives.
• Drive deep-dive technical discussions on architecture and design to resolve complex, root-cause issues.
• Partner with customers, product managers, and stakeholders to translate business needs into robust technical capabilities.
• Spearhead the development of Software products and data pipelines within Costcos GCP landscape to deliver certified, high-quality datasets.
• Set the strategy for data transformations and pipelines, communicating complex technical roadmaps to senior leadership.
• Manage the support of products at scale, ensuring high availability and prevention of customer-impactful issues.
• Champion data integrity, test design, validation, and documentation standards.
• Ensure stringent security, compliance, and data quality across all integrations and flows.
• Participate in an off-hours 24/7 on-call rotation to ensure system reliability.

Functional and Technical Skills:

• 8+ years of experience leading engineering teams with a focus on growth and mentorship.
• Mastery of engineering patterns including coding standards, code reviews, source control, CI/CD build processes, and livesite operations.
• Proven track record of successfully partnering with product and program management teams.
• 8+ years of experience engineering and operationalizing large-scale, complex data pipelines.
• AdTech/Martech: Hands-on experience with platforms such as DSPs, DMPs, CDPs, CRMs, and tracking tools.
• Expertise in GCP technologies (Big Query, GKE, Cloud Spanner, Pub/Sub, DataProc, etc.).
• Experience with event/message-based integration techniques (e.g., Kafka, Google Pub/Sub).
• Advanced SQL proficiency and a deep understanding of database storage concepts (Data Lakes, Relational, NoSQL, Graph, and Data Warehousing)
• Proficiency with Git, Azure DevOps, and Jira.