Head of Platform Infrastructure
RoktNew York, New York, United States
Posted July 17, 2025
435000 - 650000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce, unlocking real-time relevancy in the moment that matters most. The company's AI and ML-powered Rokt Brain and ecommerce Rokt Network will power more than 6.5 billion transactions connecting 400 million customers across the world’s leading companies, including Live Nation, Macy’s, AMC Theatres, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, Staples, Albertsons and HelloFresh. mParticle by Rokt is the central nervous system providing real-time data activation to unlock value across ecommerce, advertising and customer engagement. Rokt has achieved consistent annual growth of more than 40% across the past decade, driven by its unique partnership model that returns $7 from every $8 of value back to partners. Rokt is headquartered in New York City. The company has offices in 10 global locations and serves clients throughout North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, solidifying its position as a key player in the global ecommerce ecosystem. To learn more, visit Rokt.com.
Job Description
Rokt is looking for a Head of Platform Infrastructure to lead the vision, strategy, development, and scaling of our technology platforms. This is a senior leadership position that requires a deep technical background, exceptional leadership skills, and a strategic mindset.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years' senior leadership experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud services
- Minimum of 8 years' experience leading software engineering teams
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams in the development of high-volume transaction processing solutions within distributed systems
- Experience developing in a modern programming language (C#, Java, Python, Golang)
- Experience in leading incident management and building infrastructure on public cloud technologies at scale
- Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS + GCP), Kubernetes, Istio, Karpenter, etc, Kafka, Pulsar, or similar event streaming platforms, Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), CI/CD and secure software delivery pipelines
Benefits
- Accelerate your career
- Become a shareholder
- 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