VP of Engineering

Wpromote

. Lead, coach, and hold accountable engineering managers and individual contributors across the application stack, data pipelines, quality engineering, and cloud platform .

Posted 10/16/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $170,000 - $205,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering teams, managing complex software architectures, and driving technical strategy across cloud platforms and data systems. Proficient in fostering collaboration, accountability, and operational excellence while ensuring alignment with business objectives.

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Engineering LeadershipCloud Infrastructure ManagementTechnical Architecture DesignCI/CD ImplementationAI Strategy Development

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringArchitectural JudgmentData Pipeline ManagementAutomationDevEx KPI ReportingSaaS ApplicationsAPIsDistributed SystemsSecurity ComplianceCapacity Planning

Soft Skills

Decisive LeadershipClear CommunicationTeam BuildingAccountabilityCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

GCPPythonDjangoReactPostgreSQLAirflowBigQueryTerraformGitOpsArgo CD

Industry Keywords

Cloud Budget ManagementVendor RelationshipsIncident ManagementData GovernanceRisk Reduction

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowBigQueryCloudDistributed SystemsDjangoGoogle Cloud PlatformPostgresPythonReactTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, coach, and hold accountable engineering managers and individual contributors across the application stack, data pipelines, quality engineering, and cloud platform
Build technical leaders, reduce single points of failure, and scale the organization without individual heroics
Set and reinforce standards for technical judgment, delivery ownership, collaboration, documentation, operational discipline, and customer impact
Own engineering capacity planning, staffing allocations, operating budget, cloud/data/AI/tooling/software vendor spend, and technical contracts
Partner with Product, UX, Data Science, and the Chief Product Officer to shape the Polaris roadmap, sequence investments, expose dependencies, and make tradeoffs
Translate agency, client, and market needs into technology strategy across Polaris IQ, shared data products, and measurement applications
Maintain an architecture roadmap supporting product growth while retiring fragile systems, duplicated capabilities, and unnecessary operational cost
Define and manage an engineering scorecard tracking delivery speed and quality
Advance frequent deployments through automated testing, CI/CD, observability, release automation, and fast feedback loops
Set and execute the engineering AI strategy, evaluating coding agents, model providers, agent runtimes, and automation opportunities
Own end-to-end technical architecture across Python and Django services, React applications, PostgreSQL, Airflow, BigQuery, dbt, GKE, Cloud Run, Terraform, GitOps, Argo CD, and GitHub Actions
Ensure data pipelines and systems deliver accurate, timely, and observable data across advertising, analytics, commerce, and client data sources
Own service-level objectives, incident management, corrective actions, capacity planning, and risk reduction
Serve as final engineering escalation for critical incidents and high-risk architecture decisions
Partner with Security and Legal on secure architecture, identity and access management, secrets, vendor risk, data governance, incident response, client assurance, and compliance

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of software engineering experience
5+ years leading engineering managers and multidisciplinary engineering organizations
Record of building healthy teams, developing leaders, raising accountability, and delivering complex products with cross-functional partners
Deep architectural judgment across modern SaaS applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and security
Direct experience with GCP and the Polaris stack valuable; equivalent depth in comparable technologies acceptable
Experience improving developer productivity and delivery performance through platform capabilities, automation, testing, operational standards, and DevEx KPI reporting
Practical experience adopting AI-assisted development or agentic workflows
Experience balancing speed against security, quality, cost, and maintainability
Ownership of cloud and software budgets, vendor relationships, capacity planning, and technical contract decisions
Calm, decisive leadership and ability to move between executive communication and hands-on technical investigation
Clear written and verbal communication when explaining risk, architecture, cost, or tradeoffs to clients and non-technical leaders
Bias toward durable systems, explicit ownership, and delegation
Ability to work in the United States
Not eligible for immigration sponsorship

Benefits

Comp & perks

Unlimited PTO
Extended Holiday break (Winter)
100% paid parental leave
401(k) matching
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Pet Insurance
Sponsored life insurance
Short Term Disability insurance and additional voluntary insurance
Annual Class Pass credits
Remote work flexibility
Office hubs in Los Angeles and New York for learning and development opportunities, events, workspace, and in-person collaboration