Senior Software Engineering Manager Data Services

What we're looking for

• Manage and mentor a team of engineers responsible for designing, building, and operating our ever-growing data infrastructure


• Establish team objectives in alignment with business goals


• Work closely with engineering leaders to identify bottlenecks in our existing data infrastructure and guide the team in improving and scaling it; ensure that technical decisions support our quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals


• Support our analytics, data science, and ML teams


• Build systems and services that abstract the engines and will allow the users to focus on business and application logic via higher-level programming models


• Improve and maintain data pipelines and tools to keep pace with the growth of our data and its consumers


• Identify and analyze requirements and use cases from multiple internal teams (including finance, compliance, analytics, data science, and engineering, ML); work with other technical leads to design solutions for the requirements.


• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team; develop their careers by assigning them to projects tailored to their skills, personalities, work styles, and goals


• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes


• Work with your team and customers to sketch out the company’s vision for a data services architecture

• 10+ years of software infrastructure experience


• 3+ years as a people leader and a technical leader


• Deep experience with distributed systems, distributed data stores, data pipelines, and other tools in cloud services environments (e.g. AWS, GCP)


• Experience with building and managing API and Inbound data infrastructure for data Ingestion into the data lake


• A strong advocate of data governance and data quality


• Experience with big data tech stack Hadoop, Spark, Hudi, etc.


• Ability to make build versus buy decisions 


• Experience with distributed event streaming platforms like Kafka, Flink, etc.


• Experience with database internals, database language theories, database design, SQL and database programming


• You have a passion for building and motivating teams to reach their potential


• You are a strong partner to other engineering and non-engineering teams and can drive cross-functional projects forward


• You have experience building internal infrastructure that is shared across teams


• Solid leadership and communication skills

• Experience with AWS or Google cloud ecosystems


• Experience in building self-service data services


• Crypto domain experience or interest


• Familiarity with Kubernetes

WHAT WE OFFER:

• The chance to work in a fast-paced startup environment with experienced industry leaders


• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact


• Competitive salary and equity


• 100% paid medical and dental and 95% paid vision insurance for employees starting on your first day


• 401k (with match), commuter benefits


• Industry-leading parental leave policies


• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite programs


• Flexible vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it


• Employee giving match


• Modern office in San Francisco’s Financial District


• Fully-stocked kitchen with organic snacks, beverages, and coffee drinks


• Weekly company meeting - ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team


• Team outings to sports games, happy hours, game nights and more!