Engineering Manager – Data & Platform

What You’ll Do & How You’ll Make Your Mark

This is a player-coach role: you’ll manage a small team while staying hands-on as a software engineer yourself.

As a manager

• Lead and develop a team of ~4 engineers spanning data engineering, devops, cloud infrastructure, hosting solutions, and observability – hiring, mentoring, and owning performance and career development.

• Set technical direction and priorities across the team’s full portfolio: data pipelines, public cloud configuration, containerized hosting, backup/disaster recovery, observability, and internal automation.

• Partner directly with product, analytics, security, and engineering leadership to translate ambiguous business needs into infrastructure and data roadmaps.

• Drive on-call and incident-response practices so pipeline, cloud, and hosting issues are caught before they hit customers or a dashboard.

• Report on team health, system reliability, and roadmap progress to leadership.

As an engineer

• Personally design, build, and maintain production systems across the team’s domains – pipelines, cloud infrastructure, containerized services, and automation – not just review others’ work.

• Write and review code for data pipelines, devops tooling, cloud configuration (infrastructure-as-code), observability instrumentation, and backup/recovery solutions.

• Own or co-own the most complex or cross-cutting technical problems – architecture decisions, major incidents, and backup/DR strategy and testing.

• Use AI-assisted tools (Copilot, Cursor) to speed up your own development and debugging, and help the team adopt them effectively.

• Write tested, version-controlled code and contribute to CI/CD practices that catch regressions – data-quality, infrastructure, or otherwise – before they ship.

• Document architecture, data models, lineage, and operational runbooks so other teams can self-serve with confidence.

Bonus

• Experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or ClickHouse), orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect), or event-streaming tools (Kafka).

• Prior experience formally managing an engineering team.

This Job Description includes the essential job functions required to perform the job described above, as well as additional duties and responsibilities. This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee performing this job may be required to perform. The Company reserves the right to revise the Job Description at any time, and to require the employee to perform functions in addition to those listed above.