Company Summary
- Our client is a full-service marketing and communications agency that delivers integrated brand experiences across digital, traditional, and experimental platforms to clients.
- Provides cutting-edge products/solutions such as 360-degree marketing campaigns, creative branding, social media engagement, influencer marketing, and more.
- One of the pioneers and leaders in their specialized industry. Recently was recognized for executing landmark campaigns for few known brands in GCC.
- Established about a decade ago with almost 200 team members globally. Offices across Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE. HQ in Riyadh.
Job Description
- After a very successful 2024, looking for a new Director of Platform Engineering to join their team in China.
- Work closely with the Director of Product Engineering to align on contracts, SLAs, performance budgets, and release cycles
- Lead architecture, SRE, DevInfra, and AI/data pipelines across system’s core modules
- Hire, coach, and scale a high-performing engineering team in China (up to 10 engineers over time)
- Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and developer experience across a Kubernetes-based stack with APIs
- Own data and AI pipelines across streaming, warehousing, and ML enablement, with scalable search integration
- Occasional travel to Riyadh or Cairo
Key Candidate Criteria
- 10+ years of experience in engineering, preferably with senior leadership roles across platform, SRE, or DevInfra
- Deep cloud-native expertise; Kubernetes, IAC, and GCP is a plus
- Strong Node.js or TypeScript and GitHub/monorepo, or CI/CD practices
- Proven API platform ownership; Kong preferred
- Media or AdTech familiarity is a plus
- Fluent in English
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Salary
- 5K-8K+ USD per month
- Commission & Bonus
- Medical & Other Benefits
- Generous Annual Leave
- Incentivize Trips
- Annual Salary Review & Increase
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