Engineering Manager (SDK)

About Moloco:

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media enables retailers and marketplaces to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

About the Role

The Moloco SDK is our proprietary publisher-facing SDK designed for direct integration with app publishers. It serves as a cornerstone of Moloco’s supply strategy, enabling both direct and mediation-based integrations. By providing advanced technical capabilities and optimized ad delivery, the SDK allows Moloco to push the boundaries of performance and technical excellence in the mobile ecosystem.

As the SDK Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the high-quality delivery of the SDK platform. While ensuring engineering excellence in these core areas is fundamental, we are looking for a leader who will transcend operational management to define the technical and business strategies that power our publisher ecosystem. Sitting at the heart of our technical stack, you will drive publisher-facing capabilities and ecosystem growth, enable creative innovation, improve end-to-end performance, and strengthen the technical foundations required for scale. Working closely with Serving, Bidding, Creative, and SDK teams across Moloco, you will ensure the ecosystem evolves as a cohesive, high-performing platform.

Historically, the team has focused on rapid feature delivery. As we enter the next phase of growth, this role is about evolving the SDK platform for long-term reliability, scalability, and sustainability. You will go beyond executing individual features to shaping the integration architecture at the ecosystem layer, aligning strategic roadmaps, and bridging the gap between client-side SDKs and our high-scale backend infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Technical and Organizational Leadership

• Lead the SDK engineering team and help define technical direction, execution priorities, and team operating rhythm.
• Drive the evolution of the SDK organization beyond feature delivery, with stronger focus on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and long-term technical health.
• Partner with existing technical leaders to ensure strong alignment between client-side SDK development and broader platform architecture.
• Guide technical decision-making across SDK-related systems with sound engineering judgment and pragmatic trade-off management.

Cross-Functional Platform Collaboration

• Work closely with engineering teams across backend, serving, infrastructure, supply, mediation, and creative domains.
• Help connect the SDK stack more effectively with the broader DSP serving ecosystem and identify opportunities for system-level optimization.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Solutions Engineering, and business stakeholders to align roadmaps and execution plans.
• Drive cross-team alignment when solving ambiguous or multi-stakeholder technical problems.

Engineering Excellence and Team Development

• Improve engineering quality across architecture, testing, release management, observability, incident handling, and operational rigor.
• Build a healthy team culture with strong ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Coach and grow engineers and technical leaders through feedback, mentoring, and clear expectations.
• Help attract and hire strong talent by contributing to role definition, candidate evaluation, and org design.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in one or more relevant areas such as SDK, backend systems, infrastructure, supply or mediation, creative platforms, or adjacent ad tech domains.
• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience as an engineering manager, tech lead manager, or equivalent.
• Direct experience working within the publisher SDK, mediation, or supply domains, OR a proven track record of working in close collaboration with these areas to deliver high-impact results.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and partner teams.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and translate broad business or product needs into clear engineering direction.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on or direct experience in the publisher SDK development (client / backend).
• Experience working closely with SDK teams, even without being the primary hands-on client SDK developer.
• Familiarity with both client-side and server-side considerations in ads or monetization platforms.
• Experience improving reliability, observability, scalability, and release quality for production systems.
• Experience working in high-scale ad tech, monetization, or platform environments.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers or tech leads and helping organizations raise their technical bar.
• Experience partnering across engineering, product, and business teams in fast-moving environments.

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being: 

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives.

Moloco Values: 

• Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success. 
• Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible. 
• Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value. 
• Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail. 

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• Moloco Company Blog 
• Moloco Leadership
• Moloco Newsroom 

Equal Opportunity: 

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging gives us the greatest opportunity to achieve our vision to become the scaling engine for the Internet economy.

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression and identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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