Description
Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement. Attentive enables marketers to craft tailored journeys for every subscriber, driving higher recurring revenue and maximizing campaign performance. Activating real-time data from multiple channels and advanced AI, the platform personalizes content, tone, and timing to help brands deliver 1:1 messages that truly resonate.
With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like GUESS, Urban Outfitters, and Steve Madden, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.
Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!
Who we are
Our Engineering team creates innovative product experiences that power personalized marketing at massive scale. We develop cutting-edge applications and systems that process 100s of billions of messages and events per year, enabling marketers to connect effectively with hundreds of millions of consumers. Joining our team offers a high growth career opportunity to work with some of the world’s most talented engineers in a high-performance and high-impact culture.
As the Director of Engineering, you will oversee the development and management of our cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for leading multiple teams, setting technical direction, and ensuring the highest levels of cost-effective performance, reliability, and scalability. You will drive creative projects to simplify and abstract our infrastructure to be self-serve, reducing cognitive load for the rest of the engineering team.
Why Attentive needs you
- Set the strategic direction for cloud infrastructure and deliver a reliable and flexible platform that sends billions of messages per day
- Hire, coach, and lead intelligent and driven engineering leaders to foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence
- Oversee the architecture and implementation of Kubernetes and other container orchestration to streamline elastic infrastructure with self-serve tooling
- Drive the evolution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) orchestration using tools like Terraform and Spacelift to ensure consistent, repeatable, automated deployments
- Define and support best practices for monitoring, alerting, and incident management, utilizing tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, and Observability Pipelines
- Manage relationships with third-party vendors and own the budget for infrastructure, balancing innovation with cost management
About you
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role managing managers
- Experience implementing and maintaining disaster recovery, business continuity, and security measures to protect organizational assets and ensure high availability
- Deep understanding of large-scale cloud infrastructure on AWS, Kubernetes (K8s), and modern DevOps practices and tools
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, and CloudWatch
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with a history of translating business objectives into platform strategy and influencing and inspiring at all levels of the organization
Our scale
- 8,000 brands powered by Attentive sent over 2.2 billion text messages over Cyber Week 2023 (Black Friday/Cyber Monday) representing a growth of 31% from 2022
- We sent 32 billion SMS messages in 2023, up 32% YoY. That’s an average of 87 million per day
- Our production cluster contains over 18,000 containers which serve 200+ services
- Our streaming services process over 80 billion events per month
What we use
- We use a wide variety of technology and we’re always looking for the best solutions to solve hard problems
- Our backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Pulsar, AirFlow, Postgres, Planetscale, and Redis, hosted via AWS
- Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and uses best practices like GraphQL, Storybook, Radix UI, Vite, esbuild, and Playwright
You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.
For US based applicants:
- The standard base salary range for this position is $231,800,000 - $365,000 annually + equity + benefits
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
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Attentive Company Values
Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose
Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each other’s champions
Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' success
Act Like an Owner - Take responsibility for Attentive’s success
Learn more about AWAKE, Attentive’s collective of employee resource groups.
If you do not meet all the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect, and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.
At Attentive, we know that our Company's strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees, applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair, inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
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