Senior Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

What you’ll do

• Drive a motivating technical vision for the team
• Partner closely with product management to solve business problems
• Work with the team to build a world-class architecture that can scale into the next phase of Checkr’s growth
• Hire the best talent and continue to raise the bar for the team
• Represent the team in planning and product meetings
• Optimize engineering processes and policies to drive velocity and quality

What you bring

• 5+ years as an engineering manager and 5+ years as an engineer
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Unparalleled bar for quality and operational excellence
• Experience working on big data products at scale
• AI first mindset
• An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes
• Experience designing and maintaining:
  • Real-time & batch processing data pipelines serving up billions of data points
  • Normalizing and cleansing data across a medallion lakehouse architecture
  • Systems that rely on high-volume, low-latency messaging infrastructure (e.g. Kafka or similar)
  • Highly tolerant production systems with streamlined operations (data lineage, logging, telemetry, alerting, etc.)
• Familiarity with Cloud / big data tooling: AWA EMR, Databricks, Spark etc.
• Familiarity with DevOps (including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, containerization, etc.)
• Familiarity with developing APIs and backend microservices
• Compliance and regulatory landscape understanding
• Exposure to working in the identity space