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Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Engineering Manager leading teams to build scalable data infrastructure processing petabytes of data for Discord's gaming platform. Requires 7+ years software engineering experience in distributed systems/data infra, 2+ years leadership, and data tools expertise.

248k – 279kSan Francisco, CAEngineering ManagementOnsite7+ YOE

About the role

What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead and grow one or more teams of engineers building data infrastructure that processes petabytes of data across millions of users
  • Partner with People and Technical leaders to set technical direction and define the roadmap for your team(s)
  • Drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, quality-centered execution, and timely decision-making to ensure your team consistently ships high-impact results
  • Build strong relationships with cross-functional partners to align technical solutions with business goals
  • Help your team navigate ambiguity while maintaining momentum toward business outcomes

What you should have

  • 2+ years of engineering leadership and 7+ years of software engineering experience with expertise in large-scale distributed systems or data infrastructure
  • Strong people management skills including hiring, performance management, coaching, and conflict resolution
  • Demonstrated ability to set the pace for a team, remove blockers, and drive projects to completion
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to foster clear, effective dialogue across all levels and audiences
  • Proven track record independently making sound technical decisions through ambiguity in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Experience with the data ecosystem: pipelines, ETL, modeling, and/or warehousing (Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, SQL, etc.)
  • Cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS, GCP, Azure) or containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Compensation: US base salary range $248,000 to $279,000 + equity + benefits.

Skills

KafkaSparkFlinkAirflowDagsterSQLAWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetes

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