# Software Engineering Manager (Data)

**Company:** [Siftstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/siftstack)
**Location:** Marina Del Rey, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $170k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Rust, Python, Apache Kafka, Flink, Beam, Postgres, Druid, Pinot, Timescale, Grafana, Jupyter Notebooks, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS
**Posted:** 2026-04-13

> Leads engineering teams building core data pipelines for ingestion, storage, processing, querying, and APIs supporting cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped deployments. Requires 7+ years software engineering experience including 2+ years people management, data expertise, and hands-on coding in Go/Rust/Python.

## Job Description

## 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.

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