Deep passion for people leadership and a track record of building successful engineering teams. Experience managing other engineering managers is highly desirable. Ability to be a strong strategic partner to Product and Design. Strong, hands-on technical background with senior-level experience in Go and/or Python. Comfortable participating in code reviews, technical design discussions, and writing code. Familiarity with modern data engineering concepts and technologies (ETL/ELT, APIs, Postgres, BigQuery, Pub/Sub) is a major plus. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.