Senior Manager, Data Engineering
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DropboxData Engineering
Remote - USFull-TimeManager
Salary180,200 - 274,300 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of data engineering or backend/data infrastructure experience; 3+ years of experience directly managing and growing engineering teams.
- Required Skills
- SnowflakeAirflowData engineeringSparkData modelingBigQuerydbtDatabricks
Requirements
- 8+ years of data engineering or backend/data infrastructure experience in high-scale environments.
- 3+ years of experience directly managing and growing engineering teams, including hiring and performance management.
- Deep technical expertise building and operating large-scale batch and streaming pipelines (e.g., Spark, dbt, Airflow).
- Experience with modern lakehouse or warehouse stacks (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery).
- Proven ownership of data SLAs, observability, lineage, and incident response for business-critical pipelines.
- Strong data modeling fundamentals with experience designing semantic layers and data contracts.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience building self-serve data or analytics platforms.
- Experience integrating AI coding tools and LLM-based tooling into engineering workflows.
- Track record of improving compute/storage unit economics.
- Familiarity with modern data governance, privacy, and access-control practices.
Responsibilities
- Establish and enforce a rigorous data quality culture, including lineage, freshness monitoring, and anomaly detection.
- Lead the engineering of a self-serve analytics substrate to increase partner-team autonomy.
- Manage the unit economics of the data platform by improving compute and storage efficiency.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to define semantic layers, modeling standards, and data contracts.
- Establish rigorous engineering practices such as code reviews, CI/CD, and incident response protocols.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of data engineers while fostering a culture of ownership and excellence.
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