Senior Manager - Software Engineering

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build data platforms that promote standardization, including data pipeline development, platform tooling, data lake formatting, and data democratization
• Oversee development of real-time streaming platforms and complex stream processing topologies using latest open-source technologies
• Lead architectural decisions for stream processing, batch processing, and data infrastructure at scale
• Lead and manage high-performing engineering teams including senior individual contributors and technical leads
• Provide mentorship, career development, and performance management for engineers across different experience levels
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning
• Recruit, hire, and onboard top engineering talent to scale the teams effectively
• Drive the technical roadmap and long-term vision for data platform capabilities, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Drive initiatives to improve existing tools to deliver value to platform users
• Collaborate closely with Data Science, BI, Product, and Engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships across the organization, influencing teams to adopt best practices
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of data platforms supporting critical business operations
• Establish metrics, monitoring, observability, and visualization practices for data platform reliability

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years in engineering management
• 4+ years of experience in open-source big data and streaming technologies on PB scale
• Experience scaling engineering teams and establishing effective development processes
• Deep expertise in streaming technologies: Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, KSQL, Spark, Spark Streaming
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture and integration of operational systems with analytical systems
• Experience with cloud-based data infrastructure including AWS S3, streaming, data lakes, data warehouses, and OLAP databases
• Knowledge of data modeling, schema design, and experience with traditional, NoSQL and columnar databases
• Experience building scalable infrastructure to support stream, batch and micro-batch data processing
• Experience driving technical roadmaps and making strategic technology decisions at scale
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with ability to influence technical and business stakeholders
• Strong project management skills with experience leading large, complex initiatives across multiple teams
• Experience in data processing, orchestration, and data engineering best practices
• Knowledge of data governance, platform standardization, and data democratization principles

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience
• 4+ years in engineering management
• Experience with open-source big data and streaming technologies on PB scale

Benefits & Perks

• Salary between $204,000 and $255,000 per year
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements
• Comprehensive benefits package