At Index Exchange, we’re reinventing how digital advertising works—at scale. As a global advertising supply-side platform, we empower the world’s leading media owners and marketers to thrive in a programmatic, privacy-first ecosystem. Our platform is vertically integrated from servers to networks and runs primarily on our own metal and cloud infrastructure. At the core of it all is our engineering-first culture. From moving petabytes of data and optimizing with AI to making real-time infrastructure decisions, Indexers have the agency and influence to shape the future of advertising. We’re looking for a Senior ELM
- Developer Productivity to brings innovation and human-centered thinking to how Index Exchange builds and ships software. This position reports directly to Brooke Trevino based in Toronto and will work closely with members of the Quality & Delivery team. A transformational engineering leader who brings innovation and human-centered thinking to how Index Exchange builds and ships software. This person owns architecture and delivery of Index Exchange’s Developer Experience and Release Engineering capabilities, driving the transformation from siloed, human-gated software delivery to a fully gated Software Development Life Cycle capable of handling both human and agentic development at scale. This role leads a globally distributed engineering team, architects the automated and agent-evaluated gates that verify software quality and release readiness, and partners closely with peer Quality & Delivery leaders to jointly sequence and deliver a shared transformation agenda. Own architecture and delivery of Developer Experience and Release Engineering, elevating both from foundational capability to a demonstrably mature, industry-leading practice.



Architect deterministic and agent-evaluated gates across the Define, Build, Verify, Release, and Operate states of the software delivery lifecycle, including policy-as-code enforcement, contract testing, mutation scoring, and SLO-driven progressive delivery with error budgets and automated rollbacks. Partner with peer engineering leaders across Quality & Delivery to jointly architect and sequence the gated SDLC roadmap, ensuring Developer Experience, and Release Engineering practices integrate cleanly with adjacent Test Engineering and Application Services capabilities. Bring a demonstrated history of transformation in Release Engineering with a explicit, independent point of view on where discipline needs to go next. Foster continuous, iterative collaboration within the Engineering organization to make Developer Experience and Release Engineering first class components of the culture and processes? Own planning, execution, and delivery outcomes for Developer Experience and Release Engineering Apply appropriate governance, standards, and policy-as-code practices to centralize tooling, pipelines, and enablement functions. Use delivery and quality metrics (e.g., change failure rate, lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, or equivalent DORA/SPACE-aligned measures) to evaluate the effectiveness of gates and controls and drive continuous improvement. Identify and proactively manage delivery risk, release risk,



and cross-team dependencies as the organization moves toward a fully gated, agentic-capable SDLC. Communicate findings, recommendations, plans, and progress clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership Set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and actively manage performance and career growth. Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. ~12+ years of experience in commercial software development environments. ~5+ years of engineering management experience leading delivery-focused teams. ~ Applied, hands-on experience architecting policy-as-code enforcement and SLO-driven progressive delivery (e.g., contract-broker deploy gates, error-budget-based release throttling, automated rollbacks). ~ Experience architecting or directing both deterministic and agent-evaluated automated gates within a software delivery pipeline. ~ Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules Competitive retirement matching plans Equity packages Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents Employee assistance program One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program Monthly town halls and regular community-led team events Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classification—diversity is the human ex

📌 Senior Engineering Lead Manager (Toronto)
🏢 Index Exchange
📍 Toronto