VP, Engineering
About Rumble:Rumble is a high-growth neutral video platform that is creating the rails and independent infrastructure designed to be immune to cancel culture. Rumble’s mission is to restore the Internet to its roots by making it free and open once again.VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERINGMaintain hands on expertise with company’s products and technologies that power the platform to be able to diagnose complex issues involving multiple systems, proposing fast, efficient and organic solutions as needed. Review software engineering staff’s work to ensure high quality standards are met, including inspecting the proposed code changes in places that are mission-critical and that have an immediate and negative impact on organization’s users across the web, mobile, and TV platforms, as well as advertising effect on organization’s systems, such as storage, content delivery networks, private and public networks. Act as a leader in researching, proposing and selecting new technologies and furthering their implementation. Stay abreast of current industry trends and developments, actively research and continually motivate peer engineers to keep up with industry innovations by sharing new knowledge and discoveries with the team. Propose innovative approaches and algorithms that are not yet widely available or adopted, deemed novel and experimental, or being entirely original. Coordinate, take necessary precautions, and prepare to perform emergency routines when critical systems are undergoing maintenance procedures. Act as information security expert and lead for keeping company secrets, such as passwords, digital keys, and other forms of security access codes, sharing them with staff on as-needed basis and ensuring continuous rotation of such secrets. Design new as well as support current efforts in designing and improving fraud protection mechanisms, abuse and DMCA response routines, and other security and protection procedures and technologies. Take lead role in the design and integration of sophisticated technologies, such as Machine Learning algorithms, to maintain website stability and availability during bot attacks and safeguard against diverse forms of monetary fraud. Design and support scalable email sending systems for delivering large numbers of subscription notification emails, electronic digests and newsletters. Design and continuously improve geographically distributed topology of internal company services, such as databases, search, video encoding, livestreaming, etc. to ensure robustness, redundancy and high availability of such services by working with Procurement department to obtain required hardware and software. Propose, orchestrate, and actively participate in deployment of database schema changes, ensuring the safety of operations and consistent availability of regular backups. Continuously monitor integrity and accessibility of backup copies, and conduct regular backup restoration drills to maintain staff readiness, ensuring minimal response and recovery times in the event of system failures. Gather necessary metrics and provide relevant details as needed to support the functions of other departments, including legal, billing, accounting, business development, marketing, user support, moderation, and others. Ensure special safety and security of personal identifiable information of company’s users, such as real names, postal and email addresses, banking information, etc.Requirements: Ten (10) years of experience in job offered or ten (10) years of lead software/IT engineering experience in the IT industryLocation: Longboat Key, FLEmployer: Rumble USA, Inc.Why Our Team Loves Working Here:We are making a significant financial impact for our video creator community; we’re proud of their success storiesWe enjoy challenging the status quo and going head-to-head against Big TechWe aren’t afraid to try new things; we act fast and want to win We pay competitive salaries and provide great benefitsRemote: Eastern Time Zone only, also willing and able to travel 10-25% of the time (mostly domestic)EEO Statement: Rumble is an equal opportunity employer. We promote an equal playing field where everyone has the same opportunities regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.Physical demands of the position:While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for prolonged periods of time while using a computer and/or keyboard. The employee is required to communicate verbally and hear. The employee may be required to walk, reach with hands and arms, balance, and stoop or kneel. The employee may occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include clarity of vision at approximately 20 inches or less (i.e., working with small objects or reading small print), including the use of computers.