[Remote] Engineering Manager, Data Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MNTN provides advertising software and Connected TV performance marketing solutions for brands. The Engineering Manager will lead the Data Platform team in building scalable, reliable infrastructure and tooling for data engineering, analytics, and data science workloads while providing hands-on technical leadership and developing engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Data Platform team in designing, building, and maintaining core infrastructure and tooling to support analytics, data science, and data engineering workloads
- Partner with the Principal Engineer to define the team's technical roadmap and architecture
- Collaborate cross-functionally with data science, analytics, product, and engineering teams to understand use cases and shape platform features accordingly
- Ensure high reliability, scalability, and usability of the data platform-covering areas like data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, observability, and governance
- Establish and enforce best practices for data engineering and platform development
- Provide hands-on technical leadership: participate in design discussions, conduct code reviews, and contribute code as needed
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Manage communication around the platform roadmap, priorities, and ongoing work to stakeholders across the business
Skills
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading teams or projects
- Demonstrated experience building internal platforms or developer tools, ideally in a data-intensive environment
- Strong understanding of modern data infrastructure: orchestration (e.g. Airflow, Dagster), warehousing (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake), streaming (e.g. Kafka), and transformation tools (e.g. SQLMesh)
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure (AWS or Google Cloud Platform), containers, and infrastructure-as-code
- Ability to lead cross-functional workstreams and translate user needs into robust platform capabilities
- A product mindset, focus on solving real user problems, not just building technology
- Willingness to be hands-on and contribute technically while building a high-performing team
Company Overview
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