Engineering Manager, Data Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the architecture and development of the data platform to facilitate large-scale, real-time, and batch data processing.

• Design systems that cater to analytics, experimentation, event tracking, and usage metering.

• Maintain high standards for scalability, reliability, performance, and data quality.

• Promote best practices in data engineering, system design, and observability.

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of data and platform engineers.

• Cultivate a culture of ownership, innovation, and ongoing improvement.

• Collaborate closely with Product, AI, Growth, and Marketing teams to identify data requirements and convert them into scalable solutions.

• Facilitate data-driven decision-making throughout the organization.

• Enhance the developer experience and the usability of the data platform for internal teams.

• Establish and monitor platform KPIs such as adoption, reliability, and performance.

• Optimize infrastructure for both cost efficiency and performance at scale.

• Regularly assess tools, technologies, and processes to enhance ROI.

• Support AI research with data, encompassing both training and capabilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in software/data engineering, including a minimum of 2 years in engineering management.

• Strong technical expertise and architectural judgment.

• Extensive experience in building and scaling data platforms or distributed systems.

• Hands-on experience with backend technologies such as Node.js and JavaScript ecosystems.

• Practical experience with systems like Spark, streaming, and pipelines.

• Strong understanding of data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and analytics systems.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and modern data stack tools.

• Proven capability to make architectural trade-offs and lead large technical projects.

• Excellent communication skills with experience collaborating across various business teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual bonus.

• Medical coverage.

• Life and accidental insurance.

• Vacation and leaves of absence (including menstrual, flexible, special, and more!).

• Developmental opportunities through education reimbursements and professional workshops.

• Maternity and parental leave.

• Hybrid and remote work model with flexible working hours.

• On-site and remote company events held throughout the year.

• Technology and work-from-home stipends, along with new hire allowances.

• Employee referral program.

• Premium access to QuillBot.