Software Engineering Manager (Data)

Core Responsibilities

Leadership

• Manage and build a team of high-performing engineers, provide mentorship and guidance to accelerate their growth.

Strategy

• Collaborate with our Product and our Go-To-Market teams to define technical roadmaps.

Execution

• Ensure the team delivers best-in-class results at high velocity while continuously raising the bar for quality and performance.

Process Excellence

• Establish and refine engineering processes, agile rituals and use of AI to accelerate development and expand our core capabilities.

Hands-on Contribution

• Actively engage the architecture and codebase, contribute to high-impact features and help resolve critical technical challenges.

Candidate Profile

Experience

• 7+ years in software engineering with 2+ years in a people management role.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM, or a related field.

Software Development

• Strong experience with distributed systems and web applications using Go, Rust, or Python.

Data Expertise

• Experience with in-stream processing (Apache Kafka, Flink, Beam).
• Familiarity with specialized databases like PostgreSQL, Druid, Pinot, or Timescale.
• Expertise in data exploration tools such as Grafana or Jupyter Notebooks.

Leadership

• Proven ability to guide teams through ambiguity and a track record of being a "force multiplier" for engineering talent.

Bonus Points

• Experience in Aerospace, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Defense or Energy.
• Experience in leading AI-first teams and AI initiatives.
• Background in Data Science, Statistics or other academic fields that work with data.
• Experience in building UI and customer-facing dashboards for interacting with data.

Relevant Technologies

• Web frontend & backend: React, TypeScript, Redux, Tailwind, WebAssembly, D3.js, WebGL, Go
• Data: Parquet, Flink, Kafka, Redpanda, Beam, DuckDB, Timescale, QuestDB, InfluxDB, Druid
• Infrastructure: GitHub Actions, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

Compensation

• Salary range: $170,000 - $250,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.