Manager, Software Engineering (Data)

permanent
Fully Remote

Only accepting applications from: United States

  • Drive the strategy, design, and delivery of scalable data platforms powering business intelligence, predictive analytics, and LLM capabilities.
  • Drive the successful completion of complex projects across multiple domain teams.
  • Provide senior technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, and code reviews.
  • Drive the adoption of Generative AI tools to improve productivity, code quality, and innovation.
  • Partner with Product Management and Design to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of software and quality engineers.
  • Own production health for your teams’ services including on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
  • Lead operational excellence initiatives to improve observability, resiliency, automation, and alignment with SLOs and SLAs.

Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field, or commensurate professional experience.
  • 10+ years of professional software experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams.
  • Proven experience delivering customer-facing Enterprise SaaS products at scale.
  • Strong hands-on or architectural experience with modern data platform tooling like Apache Airflow, dbt, Kafka, AWS services.
  • Success leading a data engineering team through complex challenges.
  • Strong knowledge of modern data architecture, ETL/ELT processes, and data modeling best practices.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL, Python, and Typescript.
  • Knowledge of AI tools including Langchain, Open AI Agents, and MCP APIs.
  • Excellent communication skills and understanding of startup environment challenges.

Salary and Perks

Pay range: $160K - $195K

  • Excellent PTO program
  • Great health benefits
  • Casual and friendly environment
  • Remote work
  • Supportive leadership team

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